STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
School of Medicine

os March 17, 1959

Dear Boris:

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I am enclosing a check for $135 — which is explained by the enclosed copy
of the letter from Mann, I feel that TIT really should return the entire amount
Since I have been quite uneasy about accepting something for nothing, and I did
nothing to earn it. As I now understand that the 20% represents what would have
been your own return from the ONPG there can hardly be any question about it.
Just to be meticulous I am deducting #3 on account of my own expenses (postage
and taxes). I was happy to be your agent in this, and would not think of charging
you for it -- if it were just on Mann's account it might be a different story.

Your galactoside~permease story continues to be quite exciting-- you will have
to tell me how the permease serum worked out. By the way, Mel Cohn has had stronger
evidence recently to confirm Esther's supposition that the receptor for lambda phage
was the maltose permease, It should be quite reasonable that one coulki get an
antibody aganist such a receptor,

But I am still quite unease about the interpretation of permease as an entry
rather than an accumulation. system; what are you considered thoughts on this?
Len Herzenberg did have some fairly explicit evidence for splitting the entry
and muktimt outflow steps (in B megaterium)-- he is, by the way, joining our staff
this fall, but to work on tissue culture genetics. Right now he is working with
Harry Eagle,

I don't know what further variety of material we actually have, but as we are
just now reaching the point of ' normal confusion! in setbling down we will give
more thought to appropriate strains for your studiés. Please forgive the delays
until now. ‘

As I understand your plans you are returning to Albany in August. We will be
away from some time in May to perhaps the end of June. The simplest is to ignore
our possible trips and write us here.

The BIG NEWS now is that Seymour is married; his wife Victoria (Vicky) is just
graduating at Brown Univ. and will be a graduate student with Luria (who is settling
permanently at MIT). She had to turn down a scholarship at Rockefeller Institute
to marry Seymour-- fair exchange. The date was Sunday -- the ix 15th.

Give Raquelita our best remembrances,

As ever

   

Joshua Lederberg