UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

-~HE GEORGE WILLIAMS HOOPER FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MEDICAL CENTER
SAN FRANCISCO 22, CALIFORNIA

March 17, 1951

br. Joshua Lederberg
Dent. of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
luadison, Wisconsin

Dear Josh,

Inclosed you will find a manuscript concerning the
formaldehyde work which I intend to submit to the Journal of
Bacteriology for publication. I would appreciate any corrections,
suggestions, or criticisms of the article that you might have to
offer. I am going to present this paper at the coming 5.A.B,.
meeting in liay and it would facilitate the preparation of my
talk if 1 could have the paper back as soon aS you are through
with it.

time has flown since I last saw you. I do regret that
I was unable to spend more time with you and Esther last summer.
I got a gréat deal out of the short talks we had together and
enjoyed your seminars and lectures.

liy job at Hooper Foundation has turned out very well.
tI am at present in charge of a program to investigate the possibility
of growing P. pestis in a liquid non-protein medium for the purpose
of producing and isolating an antigenic protein in mass quantities.
Besides the physiological aspects of the problem, I find the
imaunochenistry very interesting. I have been given two assistants;
one, a Miss Judith Bentoff, who has worked with Pilliner and has
had experience with methanol fractionation of toxins, is being
very helpful. So far results look very promising.

£ have recently finished calibrating a circular viarburg
in preparation for some metabolic studies. Some nutrition studies
have resulted in the isolation of interesting biochenical mutants.
However other pressing work has prevented me from exploring this
any further.

Can I look forward to seeing you at the 5.a.b. meeting
in lay? Kegards to isther. :

oincerely,

 

Hillis Englesberg

os. Peoples Seeger