Memo from To:
JOSHUA LEDERBERG Jane CUlson

To yours of Dee. 18.

Our correspondence is helping to clear
ewey the underbrush, but I think we will
need & more relexed and personal converss-
tien te clean up the tag ends of any remain-
ing disagreements. Something (unintended)
in my style may meke me appear more argumen-
tative or provocative than I mean to be; or
perheps I am misreading yours.

I am very pleased that you are running
my BW piece. The Bull, of Atom. Sei. will
do the one I wrote on arms control, so per-
heps the dust is settling in the right wars:
places.

I am really too weery of the subject of
biological engineering to want to rework
it. However, do you want to meke something
of this one, which will not have been widely
circulated (though Biosciences is looking
it over.) I make a point of retaining my
own rights to reprint, whenever feasible,
so the question is mainly whether you want
to run it despite its having appeared before

Needless to say, I could evade that
problem by an elegant veristion of the text;
but I abhor this when I encounter it as a
reader. I much prefer an honest statement
that some present text really is no different
from another that hed appeared elsewhere.

Sincerely,

 

4 y Vide (-- PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Pa Department of Genetics
C ard i Wt School of Medicine
OD Stanford University
Lun: Stanford, California 94305