WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

 

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
BARNES AND WOHL HOSPITALS
600 SOUTH KINGSHIGHWAY
ST. LOUIS 10, MISSOURI

October 2, 1958

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Genetics Building
University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Josh:

Enclosed are some reprints which deal with hypersensitivity and antibody
specificity. These are, unfortunately, far from having revelance for some of
the questions which seem now to occupy your attention, judging from the reprint
you sent me. Work which we have been doing in the two years since getting
underway in St. Louis are a bit more relevant, but this work is still in
manuscript drafting stages. We have been working with isolated lymph node
cells and although we have learned a good dea! about their biochemical and
physiological behavior ,we have encountered many difficulties, as you might have
anticipated, which we ascribe to cell heterogeneity.

| want to thank you very much for sending me a copy of your comments made
at the Gatlinburg Conference. I+ is perfectly fascinating reading; it was
exciting to read such a lucid account of an area of which, up until now, |
have heard only vague and distant rumblings. | know from Arthur Kornberg of
your prospective move to Stanford and want to take this opportunity to wish
you the very best there. The new Stanford should be a very exciting place.

Sincerely,

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Herman N. Eisen, M.D.

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