February 13, 1950.

Dr. Seymour Fogel,
Dept. Biology,
Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dear Seymour:

Two students from Brooklyn College, Mise Phyhlis Fried and ur.
Albert Romano, have applied for assistantships here, naming you
as a reference. It would be a great help if you would address
your letter to m (rather than Dr. Brink), and since these letters
are the main basis for selection of candidates, any information
that you might give will be very important. Also, since it is un-
likely, though not 4mpossible, that therebwould be room here for
both candidates, I may have to rely on your judgment as to which of
them should be preferred. We are, of course, more interested in
a student with potentialities for original and imaginative research,
thaniin someone who would be helpful immediately as a technician
dn our current research progran.

irs. Lederberg and I were puzzling over the identity of the "mutable-
gene" man in the New Yorker's writeup of the AAAS meetings. This wasn't
Seymour Fogel by any chance?

With best regards,
Sincerely,

~ Joshua Lederberg,
Assistant Professor of Genetics