Septembet 28, 1949.

Mr. Bennis Flanagan,
Managing Editor,
Scientific american,
24, West 40 Street,
New York 18.

Dear Mr, Flanagan:

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Thank you for your kind words about my MS. May I aseume that I will
have an opportunity to see it in final form before it is sent to press?

I would appreciate the favor very much if you can arrange to have
withholding tax collected from the check you mentioned. It would save
me a fair ammunt of accounting work on my income tax returns. The tax
‘ean be withheld on the basis of no exemptions, so I won't bother to
send you anForm We4. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg

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