THE ROGKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

66TH STREET AND YORK AVENUE
NEW YORK 21,N_¥.

28 December |959

Dr. Joshua Lederberg a
Professor of Genetics
Stanford University

Stanford, California

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

Dr. Halsted R, Holman who has been working here for the past five years
has informed me that he has been offered the position of Associate Professor of Medicine
at Stanford University Medical School and that he is very interested in taking the position.
His only hesitation concerns the fact that the head of the department has not been chosen.
It occurred to me that Dr. Holman himself would be a fine man for this higher position.
| heard indirectly that you were involved in this selection and | wanted to inform you
of the extremely high opinion we all have of Dr. Holman. He is certainly one of the
outstanding men in clinical investigation and will undoubtedly become a professor of
medicine in the future. Despite his investigative work he is an extremely able clinician
and has sustained his interests in this area during his entire stay at this Institute. The
work | reported at the Ciba meeting in Paris on antibodies to DNA in patients with lupus
erythematosus was primarily his contribution.

Efforts are underway to establish an independent unit here for Dr. Holman.
How far these will progress | do not know. | hope we can keep him here but this may
be impossible in view of his desires for a rather large clinical unit. [| know that
Dr. Horsfall considers him one of the really outstanding young men at the Institute.

| hope you don't mind this unsolicited letter but | thought you might not
know what an outstanding man Dr. Holman is.

Sincerely ae

Henry inte
HGK:cr