The University of Michigan
Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
6643 Medical Science Building Il
Telephone (313) 763-3531

 

April 6, 1986

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Rockefeller University

1230 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021-6399

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

Approximately a month or two ago I sent you a paper for
submission to the Proceedings of the National Academy. Although
I have not heard anything about it that is not the reason I am
writing but merely to send you a copy of a letter that I received
from the Rockefeller University Press which is, in an rather
interesting way, related to the paper that I submitted,

I proposed to write a book to be published by the Rockefeller
Press on the general model of the cell cycle. As you can
see from the attached letter the reviews of some of my ideas are
quite favorable, but one reviewer said that I should publish a
“pithy, concise article" because the reviewer thought that
"the author's philosophic outlook is correct." That is exactly
what I have tried to do in the paper that I submitted to you.
And what is most interesting is that the reviewer described the
problem as philosophical. That is quite perceptive because there
is quite a lot of deep analysis which is requined here and
I hope that the paper that I submitted to you for publication
can lead to that analysis and to a better understanding of cell
growth.

I hope that you and the reviewers of the paper can see the
merit of the paper on c-myc and the continuum model of the cell

cycle in these terms.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,