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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE April 9, 1970
Depariment of Genetics

Mr. Harry Schwartz
The New York Times
Times Square

New York, New York

Dear Harry,

I wonder if you would be able to help me straighten out a
situation concerning the rights for reprinting the enclosed article
I wrote for the Times earlier this year. Very much more as a personal
favor to me than for any hope of pecuniary return Current Contents has
been reprinting various of my short articles as a way of letting various
scientists in various locations have a chance to look at and give me some
feedback on my comments. These have, of course, routinely come from the
Washington Post (which I would have placed second only to The New York
Times as a vehicle for this kind of writing).

The question was probably put the yong way but their request for
permission to reprint was met by a demand for $100 which is not all that
large but is rather above their tolerance for extending themselves on
what is essentially my own behalf) I guess I would be willing to pay for
this myself out of pocket or as a rebate to The Times but I wonder whether
it is really very much of an imposition for me to ask you to smooth the
way for a gratuitous approval, by courtesy.

The same question is possibly going to come up more seriously during
the next year when I assemble my various articles, (and it is to be hoped fer
this one also) for a collection in book form. I have an ancient contract
with Doubleday that they may renege on if I do not hurry up and put the
compilation together. I would hope that would not oppose any equally great
difficulties either.

I have usually made the rules to reserve rights of republication of
such articles and I have exactly this arrangement with the Washington Post.
I thought I had included such a reservation in sending my piece to
Mr. Lieberman but this must have been an oversight since I can find no
record of it.

Sincerely yours,

Dt.

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL/rr

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