UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN—MADISON

DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY 1550 Linden Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Telephone: 608-262-2914

 

December 10, 1974

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA 94305

Dear Josh:

Please forgive me for being so slow at this but I never did seem to
be able to see Bill Sarles. I had the idea that he might be more fruitful
than most of us around here as he was a good friend of Bill Wright.

Wright

I knew Bill/only two years as I took most of my work over in the L
and S School. I remember taking two courses in Bacteriology, or maybe it
was three; one in Agronomy and something else and those were the only
agricultural courses I was blessed with. I had come here with two years of
engineering and most of my credits were connected with engineering, but those
were the days when they didn't have so many things to bother the kid with
and they let me take the majority of my work in the L and S$ School. I got a
pretty good education taking all of chemistry and a great deal of math.

I don't know whether this will help you any. The group around here
thought that the work was done so far back and that man's knowledge of the
chemistry of enzyme recognition was so vague that it is more of historical
interest than anything else. I obtained the enclosed reprint quite by accident,
We were moving books, etc. and Miss McCoy happened to remember seeing it.

I am also enclosing a couple of inquiries that were made by Professor Brink.
I can't read them very well and I am just sending them along to you.

Well, I hope this will be of some value to you though I think it is
more of historical interest than anything else.

Sincerely yours,

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Perry W. Wilson
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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES