HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF THE DEAN

July 8, 1958

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Professor Lederberg:

Dr. Bernard D. Davis has told me and his colleagues in medical science
about his recent telephone conversations with you. Thus I believe you
know that we have recently secured the new financial resources we have
been needing to establish a permanent post in medical genetics at the
Harvard Medical School.

I believe you know also that the members of the Faculty committees here
who have been studying this matter are impressed with your many contri-
butions to the field of genetics. Indeed, as I am sure Dr. Davis mst
have said to you during his extensive talk on the phone, there are many
here who wish to explore with you the possibility that you might join
forces with us. It is to this end that I write the present letter.

Dr. Davis said you would be going to Europe about the middle of the
month, and that you would be willing to stop in Boston on the way.
Please do, if you possibly can. If you will let me know at your early
convenience what the date of such a visit might be, I shall get together
for discussions with you as many members of our Faculty committees as
possible. I am convinced that all of us would profit greatly by seizing
the opportunity that your visit would give us.

Sincerely yours,
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