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JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Theodore Cooper

Dean

Cornell University Medical College
1300 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021

Dear Ted:

I had the pleasure last week of a visit with Miss
Margaret Hamburg, whom I knew at Stanford from the time
she was a very young girl. She graduated recently from
Radcliffe and is spending this year at a laboratory at
the National Institutes of Mental Health to sharpen her-
self in practical laboratory biochemistry.

She is now applying to medical school and told me
that she was particularly interested in Cornell. She
took the occasion to discuss her background, plans and
intentions for a couple of hours so as to have had a
probe that would enhance the materiality of this letter.

Our very detailed discussion reinforces my overall
and long standing impression of her as a very capable
and well motivated young woman indeed, who has all the
attributes that you could be looking for among prospec-
tive candidates for a medical career. In view of the
illustrious medical background of her parents I wanted
to be particularly sure that she was coming along under
her own steam; and about that I have no doubt whatsoever.
She is particularly interested in developmental aspects
of clinical medicine; and her by now rather variegated
background hangs together very well as preparation for
Such a career. She has gotten her feet wet in clinical
experience and also in epidemiological and laboratory
investigation. I believe that she will be not only a
first class student but a gifted doctor.

Yo Sincerely,