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JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Maxime Schwartz

Deputy Director of Institut Pasteur
Institut Pasteur .

28, rue du Docteur Roux

75724 Paris Cedex 15

FRANCE

Dear Maxime:

My wife and I wish to express our very deep appreciation
to you and your colleagues for having given us the opportunity
to participate in the celebration of the Centerfial. It was an
outstanding event to celebrate an outstanding circumstance and
we were very happy indeed to have been able to take part in it.

As promised here is a slightly revised and neater version
of the manuscript that I left with you.

It seems to me that it would be just as well to leave out
my introductory remarks in French since they will be of much
less significance to the general reading public than they
might have been for the audience. However if you want to pre-
serve the flavor of the paper as being a documentary record
then I leave it to you if you would want to still include it.

I am sorry not to have had a chance to discuss more with
you the genetics of E. coli. The multiple manifestations of
lambda resistance have always been fascinating and it has been
very gratifying to see that.story unfold. | Actually all of the
phage resistance markers have turned out to have other very
interesting physiological properties. I do not recall, and. do
not know whether you would remember, whether anything was ever
straightened out about the association of Tl resistance and
tryptophane auxotrophy which occurred in Luria and Delbruck's
experiments with E. coli B. I did not find that in K12: has
anything ever come up about that to your knowledge? I should
take a look*in the Neidhardt volumes on E. coli that have just
come out from the American Society of Microbiology, and will
surely be the encyclopedia for some time.
Dr. Maxime Schwartz
October 16, 1987

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I have an invitation from Madame Madeleine Brunerie and
Professor Fantini to return in June to, join the historians
(a league I. have begun to join as a junior member) and perhaps
I will see you at that time, if not even earlier at the January
convocation that M., Mitterrand and Elie Wiesel are organizing.

 

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