JUN 4 1965

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM CQ)
Institute of Child Health

Telephone THE NUFFIELD BUILDING,
Edgbaston 5441 FRANCIS ROAD,
ee BIRMINGHAM, 16.

PROFESSOR DOUGLAS HUBBLE,
M.D., F.R.C.P.

Dr. J. Lederberg,
Department of Genetics,
School of Medicine,
Stanford University,

Palo Alto,
California, May 31st. 1965.

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Dear Dr. Lederberg,

Please forgive my extreme delay in writing to
thank you for the hospitality of your department and your
home in March. I very greatly enjoyed my visit, and have

been very seriously considering your offer to come to

Sdvenda

Stanford and to work primarily on the Jceland data from
there. lWUnfortunately my daily expectations of having
adequate information about local events have not
materialised, and I have heard nothing from Aberdeen,
beyond hearing that I am on the short list, while the
computer situation here remains hopefully nebulous, with
the possibility of a 1440 by Christmas.

“owever, the tcelandic position is very good
and I have just spent a week with Cavajli Sforza, and
return in July for two months. I think there are good

prospects for doing extensive automated grouping on 5/
of the population per year, and ultimately getting the
substanté4al data on both linkage and disease susceptibilyty
in relation to specific markers in the same population.

i should be able to make a more reliable prediction on
feasibility in September,

With best wishes,

‘Yours sincerely,

(kaw Hier,

J. H. Edwards.