THE WALTER & ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH

DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE THE ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL

Director:
SIR MACFARLANE BURNET, O.M., F.R.S.

llth December, 1961.

Professor Joshua Lederberg,
Dept. of Genetics,,.
Stanford University,
Medical Center,

PALO ALTO, _-CALIFORNIA.

Dear Joshua,

Your very prompt and effective help in the matter
of the microscope is truly deeply appreciated. It was such a
relief to know that within a few weeks we should be in business
once again, In the meantime I am making do on the old microscopic
equipment which, as you know only too well, is rather trying.

I am facing the future here at the Institute with
quiet confidence and am looking forward to getting a lab established
and putting dom a few roots once again. With the valuable
experience of my Stanford stay as a help I should be able to make
a pretty good go of the position here particularly as Burnet seems
only too willing to fall in with the various Plans that I have
outlined and in general is giving me every support.

Last Friday was a very exciting day here as the
Prime Minister came to unveil a portrait of Sir Mac which friends
of the Institute are presenting to the Commonwealth of Australia.
It was painted by Dargie who as you may remember during the time
that you were here kept winning the Archibald Prize for portrait
painting here in Australia and is very good if a little
conventional portrait painter.

As the rather stilted tone of this letter probably
indicates to you I am just getting used to the dictating equipment
here and so I won't stop to exchange gossip. If present plans
work out in any case I will be seeing you in a few nooks. md Hy,

Please give my very special regards to the
Herzenberbergs and all my love to Esther.