Department of bacteriology
Melbourne University

Carlton N3, Vic., Australia

September 30
1957

Dear Luca:

I must apologize for writing to you again without
waiting to receive an answer to my first letter, but our
position is becoming clearer with regard to our travel
plans.

1. It is now quite likely that we will be returning
via India and Europe.

2- Our most likely arrival time, subject to your own
convenience in part, would be Thursday November 21.

3. On these premises (and recalling your former invi-
tation) would it suit you better to meet us in Rome, or
should we fly directly to Milan. While it would please
us very much to see Rome in your company, if this is in-
convenient for you, we would prefer to go directly to
Milan. How do these dates suit you? We might stay from
5 to 7 days in Italy, and will not make any other stops
in #/ Europe this trip, as we are anxious to get home.

4. As concerns lectures, please do not go to any
particular trouble: our main concern is to have your
company, and owing to a formal invitation from India,
we are within a hundred dollars or so of our absolute
expenses. I will not be avgerse to speaking anywhere
that would not be out of our way and will leave this
to your judgment.

We still have to complete some correspondence with
Haldane (in Calcutta) and some people in Bombay, and
so still cannot give the final stamp on this itinerary.
But I am looking forward to the probability of seeing
you and Alba soon.

Yours ,

Joshua Lederberg