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CAROLINE BIRD
60 GRAMERCY PARK
NEW YORK 10, N.Y.

April 25, 1958

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Medical Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison,

Wisconsin

Dear yr, Lederberg,

I was unable to reach you by phone, so am
sending this short account of you based on the Wollman-Jacob
Selentifie American article and a short biography sent
me by the University of Wisconsin news office to you
in hopes there will be time for you te correet any
inaccuracies,

The Esquire piece, which Dr. Paul Klopsteg is
writing, will be locked up on Tuesday, April 29, so you
had better phone me Monday evening at GR 3-0733 reversing
the charges if you have suggestions,

IT notice in the Scientific American piece that
you worked with Esther Lederberg ef some of the Wisconsin
work and wonder if she is your wife? I did not get mich
personal data, suchas how you got interested in bacteriology,
where you were borm and what your carly schooling was, or
what your father did, The last is ONT interesting te
find out how scientists get started,

The story is scheduled for September,
inhopeniim Sincerely,

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