MAR 1 5 1974

Box 14, NAMRU-2

APO San Francisco 96263
4.71.39/RQOB:sw

12 March 1974

Professor Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Professor Lederberg:

I wish to thank you very much for your kind letter of
6 March which arrived yesterday in the same mail with
a letter from Dr. Hammerschlag.

I enclose the reply which I prepared for him along with
copies of my letters to Director of City of Hope and
Executive Director of ACS,

I'm really not in the habit of discussing my affairs with
just any casual stranger whom I encounter but, nevertheless,
I have given Hammerschlag the information he requested

and, I hope, more than he asked for.

Iam very sorry that a senior scientist like yourself should
be caused to waste his valuable time on such trivia. It was
very good of you to write to me so promptly and I am most
appreciative.

My best wishes.

Sincerely yours,

KO iiede

R. Quentin Blackwell

Copy: Dr. R. H. Watten, NAMRU~2