UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

 

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL
OF LONDON

Telegrams

POSGRADMED CHISK LONDON DUCANE ROAD
ane a LONDON, W.12
SHEpherds Bush 1260 (4 lines)
Department of
Bacteriology.

2end April, 1952.

My dear Cavalli,

I was sorry to hear that yourchildren had been i111 but glad
to learn that the one who had swallowed the open safety-pin had
escaped without operation. This last episode must have been
most worrying while it lasted. .1I hope yaur family affairs are
now restored to normalcy.

IT am enclosing a formal acceptance of the invitation to
Italy in September. I shall, of course, be delighted to come
and would like to read a short paper though, at the rate at which
things are developing, what we think now may be quite different
from what we think in September! I want to thank you very much
for your help in having me invited. I hope to bring Nora along
with me. I cannot find Pallanza on the map and presime it is a
suburb of Rome since Pontecorvo (whom I met at the Oxford meeting)
said it was to held there..

Yesterday I rang up the editor of the J.G.™. and tola him that
we wished a joint publication, to which he was quite agreeable. The
next issue goes to press on the 17th June and is- piblished on the
lith November. Papers should be recéived "as early as possible",
This means, I think, within the next couple of weeks. The editor
could not say definitely whether papers.received in the near future
would be accepted. Apparently about thirty papers will be accepted,
and this number have already been received, but since some of these
will require extensive editing and will therefore miss the next
issue the editor thinks there will be. space for ten papers more,

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providing they do not require much editing. Your paper will
presumably have to be returned to you since, in such s:bjects
as genetics, any small alterations might alter the meaning.

It is very hard therefore to say whether or not our papers will
appear in the November issue yn <beeLacn.

The following number goes to press on the 17th August and
will appear in January, i.e. only two months later. So far as
I am concerned I think that,whatever the circumstances, our pap-
ers should appear in the same issue, and, for my part, I am pre-
pared to have mine witheld until the January number. In fact,
I would rather prefer this since I would like to have the time

. to swell some of my figures to more substantial numbers, although

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I do not propose to include any more \work than that which has
been done up to the present time. a

I have not yet started to write my paper but I gather that
yours is nearing completion and, since I presume you would prefer
your paper to appear in the next number if possible I will get
down to it at once. The editor says that he will ensure that
both papers are published together and, if necessary, will withold
one until the other is ready.

If you agree to this I will try not to default but, as I have
said, I am quite prepared to wait the extra two months. Since I
have no desire to establish for myself any. priority in the discov-
ery of F+ I do not propose to publish a summary of my recent paper
in the issue which has just gone to press. I think that whatever
honours there are in the matter should be equally divided or, if
anything, the priority should go to you and Lederberg. Please
let me know your views about witholding publication until the
January issue. It might be that your paper will just miss the
next issue and in that case I would value the next two months to
clean up my resilts, although I am not bothering unduly about this.

In the next day or so I shall be sending you a copy of my
recent paper. This will be the nucleus of my J.G.M. communication
and I do not propose to add significantly to its content apart from
expansion and mode of presentation. It comprises the views which
I think I now hold and you can, if you wish, use,them freely in

_ your paper. While I do not hold my theory. strongly I feel that

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it is not an unreasonable one and since I have hitherto used it
extensively,as a working hypothesis I will continue to do so, un-
less you prove it wrong. I think it a good, and possibly fruit-
ful, thing that there should be two rather opposing theories on

/this matter. Both yours
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

 

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL
OF LONDON

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POSGRADMED CHISK LONDON DUCANE ROAD
Telephone

LONDON, W.12
SHEpherds Bush 1260 (4 lines)

this matter. Both yours and mine, contain a certain amount of
the truth and eventually the two together may show things up
in a better and truer perspective.

I got the impression from recent letters from Lederberg
that his views too were rather in the melting-pot.

Nora sends you her best wishes,

With kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

  

Dr. Le Le Cavalli,
Instituto Sieroterapico Milanese,
Via Darwin 20,

Milano, italy.