Elise Cahn

108-26 - 65 Avenue, Forest Hills, L. 1, N. Y.
May 3, 1950

Dear Dr.Lederberg:

Thank you very much for your
letter, as well as for all the trouble
. you took on my behalve.

I agree with you that the -best
thing to do would be to postpone my
studies for an other year, as had been
my original plan before the civil service
troubles arose. I would, however, like
_to keep my bid in for an assistantship

for the Fall of '51. I hope that space
will be available by that time. If not,
I could possibly spend the greater part
of my first year on course work. I would
naturally prefer to start right in on
research then but I do feel that I still
need quite a few courses and if the space
problem is still acute, then getting courses
out of the way may be one way of getting
around that.

Let me thank you again for all
your consideration.

Sincerely yoursp