W. H. FREEMAN AND COMPANY a PUBLISHERS

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May 18, 1954

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison 7, Wisconsin

Dear Joshua:

Thank you ever so much for your sugges-
tion of a translation of Buchner's Endosymbiosis.

I am writing Verlag Birkhauser, and
Steinhaus is inquiring as to the willingness of
any of his confreres at Berkeley to undertake
the translation. If we can possibly do it, we
will,

One factor gives me pause. We have
found that our price for a translated version
has to approximate Verlag Birkhauser's (we have
worked with them before, you know). This means
that our edition would have to sell at about
$16.00 list price. How many biologists do you
think would buy a book so priced--regardless of
its value?

Now, how about getting at that Genetics
of Micro-organisms?

AS ever,
ie

WHF :mc