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LLCS/bom April 20, 1964

ISTITUTO DI GCENETICA

UNIVERSITA DI PAVIA
VIA SANT’ EPIFANIO, 14 Prof. Elliott Levinthal

PAVIA

Stanford University
Medical Center
Department of Genetics

Palo Alto, Calif.

Dear Elliott,

thank you very much for your

letter. I think it will be a good thing if :
Vatthew will take the training post that you >.
are offering him, and I am very grateful to =

you for taking much trouble about it.

Matthew is now 17:+ and is
finishing high school, which with us lasts
longer than in the U.S. His knowledge of
physics will be about the level of the I.I.7.
high school course. His school mathematics
is scarce, and he has studied by himself dif-
ferentiation. He should have no English trou-
bles. If he gets interested in something he
can make considerable’ work ¢*™*

Although he may want even-
tually to turn into Chemistry and Biology, I
think it is good that he takes a degree in
physics first. Any work he can do with an in-
Spiring research worker will be good to hin,
I am sure.

As to question of him being
paid: it is not very important, and in ay case
especially fongratification of his ego.

One difficulty is that his
exams will finish on or around 15th July. We
Should be able to be in Stanford on the 25th
of July, and he could stay at least until the
15th or 30th of September,

Alba, Matthew and I are
looking forward to meet you and your family.

Yours sincerely

beceoe

L.L. Cavalli-Sforza