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July 10, 1957

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Genetics Building

The University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Joshua:

You two should try traveling with children! I returned
here as your letter arrived in San Francisco, my children
having seen the U.S.A. and I having seen both it and them
so thoroughly that it seems ages since our visit in Madison!

First, as to the delivery of your completed manuscript,
thank you for keeping me advised of changes in your schedule.
Bear in mind that you will be, not only the "executioner" of
the finished work, but the final judge of when it is ready
to go to press. And when that state is imminent, I will be,
as you know, happy to have you give us all the warning you
can so that the work may not hibernate between receipt of the
manuscript and appearance of bound books.

I will hope that you do have time for a visit with us
while you are en route to the South Pacific. I am therefore
carrying in my little black book a note that I may hear from
you either August 5 or August 6.

As things turned out in New York City, I was harried by a
heat wave and hurried by a schedule so tight that I would
berate the person who concocted it would I not then be risk-
ing the accusation of insanity because I was talking to
myself. I will have to write Dr. Cavalli, and will do so
some time this summer,

In one of the folders I have carefully brought back to
San Francisco there is, hidden in a jumble of incunabula and
priceless items, that booklet which you gave me. I hope
Shortly to locate it and send it to you in Madison. Barring
that, I will save it here for your arrival, when you can give
me proper shipping instructions,

Sincerely yours,

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