UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

; PARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY
. BERKELEY 4, CALIFORNIA

‘Dr. J. Lederberg

Dept. of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Maddson 6, Wisconsin

January 9, 1950

Dear Dr. Lederberg,

I am looking forward with great pleasure to meeting you this
August, and spending my expected postdoctoral fellowship working with
yOu.

br. Stanier mentioned that you had suggested that I apply
for a U.S. Public Health Service Fellowship. I intend to do so, and
also to apply for the Merck Fellowship. In order to secure these
fellowships, I will need your assistance in the following:

 

1. The National Resparch Council informs me that in addition
to your letter, they require a letter from the University of Wisconsin,
indicating their acceptance of me. Would it be possible for you to
obtain such a letter for me, and have it sent immediately to the
Natural Sciences Fellowship Board, National Research Council,

2101 Constitution Ave., Washington 25, D.C.?

2. A similar letter is required, assabove, addressed to the
Merck Fellowship Board, address as above.

5. A letter from you is required, to be sent to the Merck
Fellowship Board, stating thattyou will act as my Scientific advisor,
and that adequate facilities are available for me. (Similar to the
letters you have sent me.)

4. A letter from you is required, to be sent to the Division
of Research Grants and Fellowships, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda 14, Maryland, stating that I have made suitable arrangements
with you in order to earry on my research program, and that adequate
facilities are available.

I hope this will not inconvenience you too much.

Sincerely

  

Ellis Englesbd¢re

P.S. Thank you very much for the reprint of your article on Bacterial
Variation.