Columbia University in the City of New York New York 27, N.Y.

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

April 16, 1962

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Dear Josh:

Thanks for your suggestion that Cold Spring Harbor should
be turned into an institute for peace. I have referred
your suggestion to Ed Tatum and we have discussed the mat-
ter. Both of us feel that the immediate problem is to es-
tablish an entity which can carry the laboratories forward.
I believe we are succeeding in doing this. The second step
will be to give the laboratories an appropriate scientific
or intellectual direction for the future. This will, of
course, involve a new director and must incorporate his
thoughts. I hope we can secure someone who is not only held
in high regard by his peers but who has good imagination,
and is sensitive in the world of intellect.

I hope you and Esther had fun in Japan.
With all best wishes. ,

Sincerely yours,

 

“Francis J. Ryan

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