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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Department of Genetics July 19, 1972

Dr. W. Todd Wipke

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Director

NATO Advanced Study Institute
Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Dear Dr. Wipke:

First let me apologize for taking so long to reply to your
letter of April 8, 1972 which included a cordial invitation
to participate in an Advanced Study Institute next May. I
simply have to put this down to administrative confusion,
having been under the impression that one of my colleagues had
replied to it during a period when I was absent.

When I was questioned about whether I had already responded
to this I realized that the loop was still open at least as
far as the completion of my own obligation and good etiquette.

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend myself, but I
wonder if you would consider the suggestion of Dr. Dennis Smith
in our department of Chemistry. He tells me that you may have
met during the period of graduate study and you will no doubt
have encoutered his name in a number of publications both from
our group, and previously, that also deal with computer repre-
sentation and manipulation of chemical information. Dr. Smith
has played a central role in the development of our own program
here and I am sure that he would be a worthy representative
of our group and an articulate and effective contributor to
your study institute. From our standpoint it would also be
advantageous, from the standpoint of his own education, if he
would join with you.

_I realize that’ at this late date you may have already made
other conflicting commitments that may make it difficult for
you to respond to this suggestion but if the possibility is
still open I hope that you give it your sympathetic consideration.

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics
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