DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

November 14, 1961

Professor Joshua Lederberg
716 Alvarado Row

Stanford, California

Dear Josh:

Thank you very much for your kind message of
congratulations and your personal congratulations as
well.

I don't really know what the Nobel Prize will
do to me and my family but one nice thing that it does
is give me the privilege of belonging to the same club
as you do. This I consider a high honor.

Best regards.

Sincerely,

" rt~

Rk. Hofstadter

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