LLCS/mgo April 10, 1962

Prof. Lincoln E. Moses,
Department of Statistics,
Stanford University,
Stanford, CALIFORNIA

Dear Lin,

Thank you very much for your letter and invitation. It igs very
pleasant to be offered another chance of seeing friends at Stanford,
and I would be very pleased to help you if possible. However, there are
difficulties,

I have a good number of reasons to be here in July or at least
for part of it. Most of these engagements are flexible as to their date
and could be shifted to an early or late part of it, except one, the
arrival of a computer, in the management of which I shall have some
responsability. It seems to me, however that I would be able to spend a
maximum of three weeks in Stanford without serious impairement of my
local engagements. I have not sufficient information about your summer
coursc, in order to understand whether this would be adequate, and
could be fitted into your time schedules, or not. For one thing, I do no
know how many lectures you would have expected of me. A course like
i's might demand anything between 15 and 30 lectures, depending on how
deep into the subject one is expected to go. The fact, however, that
the only requirement is "one course in genetics", and no calculus,
limits considerably the type of presentation. I would imagine that the
kind of course I gave in 1960 at Stanford might be adequate, except that
the emphasis should now be shifted from data to methods. If this meant
lecturing more than once a day, at least on average, I would not mind
it, but I do not know how this could fit your schedules. I think I would
cover more or less the same general programme ag Li. Incidentally, Li
does not give, in his summary, the analysis of twin data, at least not
explicitly. I think it should be ineluded. I could of course, send you
@ syllabus,

Please let me know if the time I could have available for.
Stanford would meet your needs. If it does, let Aye know if you have
preferences for the first, middle or late part of the course. At the
moment I have some preference for the middle or late time of the course.
But I have to reckon with the arrival of the computer.
If this can be arranged to be in a time suitable for me (and you),
well and good. If it should arrive at the beginning of July, I would
be in trouble in accepting your invitation.

I hope to know soon if I can arrange things so as to be absent
for three weeks. At the moment, however, my ansewer has to be maybe,
but I can very probably (90%) turn it into a yes in a maximum of ten
days after taking contact with all the people concerned. But I would
need to know if my prepenca.for only a part of the course would be
compatible with your interests. I do not understand enough of the
organization of the course to see if this conflicts or not with your
plans, and how flexible these are,

I wish to thank you for your kind offer to be a guide to my
excursions. As I will not be able in any case, to be in Stanford before
or after the course, I will be unable to take advantage of it. I would
hope to have a chance this time to see more of you, but you will
probably be a very busy man that time of the year.

I am sending a copy of this letter to Joshua.

Yours

LLL. Cavalli-Sforza