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Department of Medical Genetics

uber? April 7, 1957

I'm sorry to have miesed you thie trip. I thought I saw Dotty in a back
row at a lecture at Berkeley, Wit there was too meh ef a jem to verify.

Z hope Vieter has passed on my eerrespenience, theugh I gathered fron
Sam Gross that he's been away mash ef the tine. Weuld you tel] him (Vic)
—e te eall him, ani wae sorry to have mistined om secing him and
C ‘

Dear Dave:

At any rate, we have thought it beet to narrow the range of ehoice te
Berkeley and Madison. Life waa getting intolerably conplex-~ you may not have
heard that Harvard was in the picture too. We are presumably net coming
to Stanferd then, but we might ent up at Berkeley, ani if so I hepe there
will be no great ebetacic to closer ties with people at Stanford like Clire
and yourself.

We had greet fun in Franes and Britain, fortunstely only a few how's
in Glasgow. What a diemal placel Esther found Paris quite exciting; ay
own bid was for London as a dignified orderly place. But mainly, we hed
eo neny friends wa never felt very far from hore.

With best regarde,
Sinoerealy,

Lf.

jSouhua Lederberg

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P.3. I am still no less hopeful than before that you will get a first-class
Bicchemistry departasnt. Perhaps because he is such an obvious choice, Kornberg's
name is alreaiy in many people's minds. It would be poor diplomacy to let

any rumor develop and reach Art too long before he has official notice of

it, as you will eventually veer in that direction. It aight convey

the (I hope) wrong idea of indecision.

In Cliff Grobstein, Stanford has gotten one of the best. I hope as an
alternative to ayself, that Stanford will still go after a geneticist who,
while furthering an independent program, will still have a breadth of interest
than can excite the Biology students. I have already urged Luca Cavalli to
Twitty in the strongest terms. While realising that there are sany other wirthy
possibilities, he comes to my mind as the strongest appointment that Stanford
could now make.

J.