June 14, 1949.

Dr. Evelyn M. Witkin,

Dept. Genetics,

Carnegie Institution,

Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., N.Y.

Dear Evelyn,

How does it feel to be 2 mother, Fvelyn? Belated congratuletions, and sincere
best wishes!

The point of this letter is to ask you about your experience in teaching
microbial genetics at Brooklyn. I'm planning a lecture course at a fairly ele-
mentary level, designed rather for bacteriology than genetics majors. If you
hapven to have made up a lecture outline, I'd like very much to see it, to-
gether with any comments and suggestions that you might have.

I expect you're pretty busy, so don't bother to answer this until you
can do so easily. I hope to be hearing from you fairly soon about the mechanics
of the Microbial Genetica Bulletin.

Sincerely, |

Joshua Lederberg.