April 23, 1956

Dr a P a R. Edwards
Box 185
Chamblee, Ga.

Dear Phil:

I read your letter of the 18th with real consternation: how the h' can
you get anything done.

Of course we would want very much to have you come this fall, and if you
can help by scheduling a time in advance, so much the better. Probably Oct. 1
or soon thereffter would get us eway from the September hectics.

I did see a mimte gap in gour schedule: could you sneak up from Chicago
c. June 11, or perhaps en route from there (7) to Quebec; make this official
or not as you please: we'll pay your fare ourselves if you want to make just
a social call! If this elicits a groan on your part, just forget I asked.
We'll be away ourselves the weak of June 18.

You do have my sympathies, and my felicitations to Mrs, Tdwards and yourself
yeux for your daughter.

What is Kauffmann doing in Quebec--mad I hope there's nothing sinister in
"perhaps for the last time"; that rather worried m. I hope you don't mean
mach more than his reaching time to retire. :

I was sorry to hear of Pelix' death; as one of his onetime associates
wrote me however, it might be as well he did not have to bear what would

have been a great disappointment in the trials of the Vi vaccines. Is any
vacoine much good?

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg f

Vaal
P.S. Do you know anything about the typhoid "epidemic" we're having in
Wisconsin? (Curious I should have to ask you about 1t]i