March 23, 1971

Dr. Orio Ciferri
Istituto di Genetica
Universita di Pavia
Via Sant*Epifanio, 14
27100 Pavia, ITALY

Dear Orio,

I do not know where I get the bad habit of promptiy answering
letters but there is a kind of last in first out phenomenon. All to
the better I hope!

We would be delighted to have you here for three months just to
help us on the general reorientation of our own work, if you would
like to do that between September 15 to December 15. I think there
will be plenty of things that you could just come right in on, and
you might also have a chance to learn some more about some other
techniques, for example, mass spectrometry, if you wanted to take
advantage of the opportunity.

I am sorry to see the depth of your depression about the universal
anomie. Perhaps seeing the same phenomenon in the California sunshine will
make you feel better about it!

By way of salary I think we can offer you a flat $5,000 for a period
of three full months. This will, of course, be subject to income tax,
You'll have to take care of your travel expense from Italy from your
local side of the exchange agreement funds. I think all of this will
have been already within mutual understanding.

As to the requests for reprints I suggest that you have your
secretary type up labels, preferably on pressure sensitive labels,
but if this is not convenient just directly on single sheets of paper
that we then cen cut up. We discovered that we had a few hundred reprints
having overlooked them for the last few months. I left instructions to
send you an aliquot but the matter was somehow confused. Let us see how
many requests have to be filled before we ship any of the actual stuff off.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL/rr

'G''aaast'D