MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

Microbial Genetics Research Unit

Hammersmith Hospital,
Ducane Road,
London W.12.

24th March 1961

Professor J. Lederberg,

Department of Genetics,

Stanford University Medical Center,
Palo Alto, Cal. :

Dear Josh,

Thank you very much for your letter. Bob and I are delighted
that you will be at Stanford in May, and that we will have the opportunity
of seeing you.

You think of everything! We should be very grateful if you
would book us a couple of rooms at Rickey's Studio Inn in Palo Alto, as
you suggest, and also reserve a car for us at the Hertz Auto Rental Service
at San Francisco airport. This will leave us very free, and absolve us
from being a nuisance to other people.

We are booked to arrive at San Francisco from Dallas by
flight AA.81 at 21.05 on Sunday, May 7th. We will certainly not expect
to be met, but if the plane was due on schedule, and you felt like a
Sunday evening drive, we should of course love to see you.

I will write to Adelberg and Pardee and make arrangements about
visiting them. Gunther Stent is at Cambridge, as you know, and we hope
to see him in the very near future.

With regard to Gudmundur Eggertsson, he is a very nice fellow
and intelligent, but I would not put him by any means in the top class.
He is extremely diffident and needs a good deal of direction in his work.

Nora is now home again, and is improving very rapidly indeed.

Best wishes to you both,
Yours

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