Cetober 24, 1958

Dr, Robert “orison
Rockefeller Foundation
LQ Yeast 49 Strect

New York 20, .Y,

Dear Dr, “orison:

May I acknowledge your letter of the 21st, I was rather afraid you might
have to reply in those terme, and would be the last person to ouarrel with
a sound policy, aspecially in view of the Foundation's generosity to my
program here at Wisconsin during the past decede, The 3 few thousand in
question would have been helpful in tiding us over an awkvard gap, but if
all goes vell with my other applications I imagine we will find seme way to
keep going until our finances are straightened out arain in an orderly fashion,

Ioan indeed looking forward to a close association with Frofessor Kuplan,
who 1a so much more than a ‘radiologist’. One line of work I hore to branch
out in at Stanford to a depree that was not feasible here is the cellular
basie of antibody formation, in collaboration with ay Australian collearue,
Dr, G, Nossal, whom 1 worked with in Melbourne last years he is planning te
svend an interval with us at Stanford starting next summer. Our project cuts
close to -xeny of Koplan's ideas and asrects of bis coinr studies,

Twill be on the Stanford campus myself the week of January 21, leaving open
the possibility of returning to Madison for a week or ten days after that, before
finally moving, I will be tied up, hovever, for the weekend (24-25)

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederherg

ot Dean Alway

r,S, You will deubticas receive, in good time, formal notice of the termination
of my ‘active direction of the research! supported by the grant in question, The
timing happens, in any case, to fall within the six monthe' term allowed by

the conditions of the grant to the University,