STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

2398 SACRAMENTO STREET

DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS SAN FRANCISCO 15, CALIFORNIA

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October 14, 1958

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Medical Genetics
Genetics Building

The University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Doctor Lederberg:

I cannot thank you enough for the tremendous help you have given
me in making my plans for next year. You have enabled me to arrive at
a decision which I think will be a very happy one for me personally
and which should enable me to have a most productive year of study. I
feel that, although several people are doing very exciting work in the
field of genetics, none of them can offer me any more, if as much, than
I will be able to get at Stanford from you and Art Kornberg. Therefore,
it seems most logical that I should spend the year trying to achieve as
basic and broad an approach to the field as possible. Under these
circumstances, I am sure I should be most happy to spend a major part of
the time with Dr. Cavalli. I have just received a very cordial letter
from him, which completely removed any lingering doubts I might have
had. Perhaps it would be possible for me to spend nine or ten months
with him, and then spend two or three months visiting London, Cambridge,
Paris, etc. In this way I would get a flavor of what some of the other
people are doing, but would get my basic instruction from Cavalli.

I have just submitted my application to the Guggenheim Foundation,
and will follow it with applications to Commonwealth and the U. S.
Public Health Service. I would be very grateful, if I could list your
name as one of my references in these applications. I realize that you
do not know me personally, nor have you had any first-hand knowledge of
my work. I know, of course, that your support would lend tremendous
weight to these applications, and I would be most grateful to you, if you
are willing to give it,

I am delighted to know that you may be in San Francisco in January.
I lock forward with the greatest of pleasure to meeting you at that time.
In the meantime, I want to once again express my heartfelt thanks for
your enthusiastic reception to my plans and for all the help that you
have already given me.

Sincerely yours,

Ruth T. Gross, M.D.
Associate Professor in Pediatrics
Acting Executive

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