March 10, 1961

Dear Mr. Beckwith:

I had hoped to acknowledge your letter of February 15 in the course
of @ personal meeting, and am sorry that I had to change my plans to join
the group in Mexico,

The material you are sending me is very instructive, and I am very
happy to have it. I have not been able to digest it fully, but expect
to learn a great deal from it.(As you know my own special interests have
not had much to do with steroids in the past.)

Some future ocoasion will, I am sure,arise before too long when I can
make up for the opportunity missed earlier this month. It is a pleasure to
see the kind of enlightened idealism that Sysatex is starting off with (and
that I would have to predict from Carl Djerassi and his associates) and I
am looking forward to seeing this set a high standard for the pharmaceutical
industry.

Yours cordaally,

“Joshua Lederberg