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THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL-CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER

525 East 68th Street
New York 21, N. Y.

July 14, 1947

Dear Doctor Baldwin:

I was very gled to get your letter of July 9 giving me
congratulations and good wishes on my new appointment here.
I feel extraordinarily fortunate in having been given a
great opportunity in a great institution, and I hope I can
live up to it. Your kind. letter has added te the pleasures
of the start.

As you know, Mr. Josua Lederberg has had a fellowship
from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, and as Director of
the Board of Scientific Advisors of the Fund my contact with
him was through conferences. He is an unusually brilliant
investigator, and extrardinarily able. I had heard that he
was aggressive, and saw some evidence of that trait. This
seemcd natural to me in a man who is so able. He can work
in @ group, and should be "manageable," but he will do best,
I believe, on original work of his own, which could be a
fairly clear part of a general program of research in a de-
partment. Our Fund is ready to give him a renewal of his
fellowship in case he decides to go on with medical studies
at P& § at Columbia.

With dest wishes,
Sincerely yours,

(Signed) 5S. Bayne-Jones

8. Bayne-Jones