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Department of Medical Genetics

April 2, 1935”

Dr. Janes D. Watson
Blological Laboratories
Harvard University
Canbridgze 38, Mass.

Dear Jins

< wish I had time to write each one of ny friends at Varvar, who wialjed
me 60 well during the past fev montha, In plese of thet, I" ike te vely on
you to pass the word, especially as I have been setting bael: tuaccurete =
~s ea to my reasons for withdrawing fron avedlability for Harvard Biclosy
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T could heve been forgiven for sore impatience thnt ther dracvear’ ont
materlelizins, However, it is owlte true toast indicated vecufra:
on the exorbitant side, and I have been learnin» « creat deal iste?
aection with the orgenization of the new Medical Genetics aenert:
lous i+ doea take to process appointments, even when all the 74 ds
T dic tell Peul Doty in connection with Paul Levine tuet T <>
nica be the better fpr seme nore resolutensss: thas «
vas behind some of my feeling that I wanted te heve 2 oreen.
Kervard administration before there ves mucl. veint in further Giscussion.
sut what T heard from Dean Bundy and George Wald aad others vas nore Suc:
satisfactory tn this respect, Wheat T hope ro ome oleunderesteads is taat “ar
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ere Le went to be tavelved in amr more nesotiations cise
ready, In any event, for reasons which are ac clseredit se attuer
great inatitutions, we have decided thet on balence ve weld oreler to remain
at Madisen Tor the present rather then nove to Ganbridve. I woul ratner 20%
be pressed into going inte mofe detail, if only because saie of the ulitnese
considerations (if we imew what they vere) af sean rather trivial. In the
sad, Harvard and Wisconsin are probably beth zrand places to be anc ho wx
nere is where we harpoen to be nov, But it vould meke us very teriapior i:
valse inpression were vroadeast that thig deelston were
of past “istery, Tou om prosence, Sra un
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