NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
CORNELL UNIVERSITY

ITHACA, NEW YORK

 

LABORATORY OF BACTERIOLOGY

October 9, 1948

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Genetics Department

The University of Wisconsin
Madison, 6, Wisconsin

Dear Doctor Lederberg:

This is in reply to your letter of September 14
which was waiting for me when I arrived here on Octo-
ber 1. It is unfortunate that you did not write me
at NIH so that I would have got your letter sooner.

‘The possibilities you outline seem very inviting,
but I should like more information before committing
myself. If it were just an evening's work or two, I
would be perfectly willing to do it. If, however, it
extended over a considerable period of time, as it
appears it might, I would not care to undertake the
work, especially at the beginning of a new position,
unless it were possible to be coauthor on the published
results. If this were possible, I think the work is
of sufficient importance to merit spending consider-~
able effort on it. I shall await your reaction on
this.

If we decide to go ahead, it will not be possible
for me to do much for at least another month, since, as
you may know, the laboratories here were burned out
about a year ago and have not yet been completely re-

With all best wishes,

Sincerely,
Mays Nn Gtte,

Max R. Zelle

MRZ/c