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GEORGE E. MOORE, M.D., PH.D.
DIRECTOR

STATE OF NEW YORK

  

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

HERMAN E. HILLEBOE, M.D. ROSWELL PARK MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

COMMISSIONER
BUFFALO 3, NEW YORK

January 3, 1961

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Stanford University
School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California

Dear Josh:

During our last meeting you mentioned that you might welcome
some financial aid in supporting the proposed stay of George and Eva
Klein at your laboratory. Meanwhile, I have arranged for an evaluation
of our fellowship program by George which he can do either enroute to
you or on his way home. We can pay him approximately $500 in terms
of consultation fees for 2 or 3 days! work,

Another possibility which may be helpful to you came up at a
meeting of the International Union Against Cancer which I attended in
Washington recently as a member of the U. S. National Committee. We
were asked for opinions concerning the fellowship fund distribution of
the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation for Cancer Research, This foundation
will soon have available about $200, 000 annually for visiting foreign
fellows on the advanced post-doctoral level. I strongly proposed that
this program could be launched by awarding both the Klein's whatever
funds you had planned to pay them during their stay with you, suggesting
that money which you had already appropriated for this purpose might
be needed by you in other directions, This proposal received some
enthusiastic support, but several more conservative committee members
wanted to go slowly on plans for these funds,

It seems to me that if a personal move were made by you directly
through Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and the funds were requested for the
Klein's, you may well succeed in obtaining complete coverage of all
costs involved, Please don't tell my friends how you found out about
this.

With best wishes for a happy 1961 also to Mrs, Lederberg,
Yours ever,
—_

J CR

TSH:np Theodore S. Hauschka, Ph. D.