W. H. FREEMAN AND COMPANY i PUBLISHERS

660 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 4, CALIFORNIA ¢ TELEPHONE: YUKON 6-5115

November 14, 1958

Dear Esther and Josh:

Naturally I was personally delighted
to have my morning coffee flavored with
the news of Beets, Tatum, and you. I was
further pleased to see both of you grinning
at me from the morning paper. Congratulations,
especially on getting the recognition early
enough in life to enjoy the material evidences
thereof.

And is it not seemly, at this appropriate
moment in history, to suggest that now is the
time for you good people to finish that manu-

AS ever,

script on transduction?

P.S. Coming through St, Louis I picked up
the Chicago paper the pertinent page
from which I enclose, just in case
you have not yet seen it.

WHF :mc

Enclosure

Dr. and Mrs. Joshua Lederberg
Genetics Building

The University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin