November 16, 1967

Dr. Gordon Allen
9627 Parkwood Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Dear Gordon:

I'm so much gratified that you are interested in my articles.
I have contracted with Doubleday to make a book out of an
annotated collection of these articles but ft will be the
best part of a year before this is in print so it can hardly
be of much immediate use to yeu.

Mearwhile, the best I can de for you 4s to send you a set of
xerocopies that I have made myself and leave it to you to
arrange for any further disposition. J have to remind you
that the copyright is legally held by the Washington Post
but I am sure that Mr. Howard Simons there would be very
happy to sign off their approval for the limited number of
copies that you indicate in your letter.

I would be very interested to receive comments on the articles

though I would have to defend myself against the necessity of
replying to them.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg,
Professor of Genetics

JL/gem

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