May 1, 1967

Dr. J. F. Bunnett

Editor, Accounts of Chemical Research
University of California

Senta Cruz, California 95060

Dear Dr. Bunnett:

I appreciate your invitation to submit an article for Accounts of Chemical
Research.

This may indeed serve a very useful function, particularly in the light
of the very wide distribution of your new journal. May I then accept.

I will endeavor to have a manuscript in the mail to you by January 10, 1968
on the theme of "Computer emulation of scientific inference: elementary
organic chemistry". I weleome this opportunity to boil down whgt my col-
leagues and I have been trying to do in a rather unconvenitonal kind of
effort that needs to be exphsed to many sources of critical judgment.

The best evaluation we can make is that "We are doing the best we can.”

Sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

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