September 16, 1956

Dr. Jack Schultz
Lankenau Hospital
Gancer Institute
Philadelphia il, Pennsylvania

Dear Jack:

{ thought you might be interested in the enclosed material wnich is a sort
of postscript to the Gatlinburg conference last April. t ran into Burnet and
a number of other people who had been at the Gatlinburg meeting in Stockholu
and it became obvious that the suvsidiary mechanism which Burnet bad casually
mentioned was really sufficient by itself as a basis of a plausible model.
After | had written it up 1 remembered your own note which you sent me las<
March and referred back to it. While | am sure you can trace some genetic
continuity between the two proposais the present one is realiy quite a differen:
one, but none the less | would be interested in your critica! comments. You
never did tell me the form in which you planned to publish that note which
for the title ‘Transplantation Specificity and Antibody Formation at Celluiar
Phenotypa',

As you may have heard | am moving te Stanford next year to a department
of genetics in the Medical School there. | am very anxious to forward a procras.
in the genetics of somatic cells, but there is littie prospect that { can do
this with my own hands and at the same time keep up our work in bacterial
genetics. We may have one or two staff openings in the department at Stanford
and | would be most interested to have any nominatigns you might care to offer
for a geneticist working with mammalian material who would fit late such a
general program.

Yours with best regards.

Sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Medical Genetics

JL/ip