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Dept. Medical Genetics

Dr. Walter H. Stockmyer

Department of Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge 39, Massachusetts

Dear falter:

I hope you don't find this salutation tco familiar; I remember your
chemistry course as an exciting experience, and I have noticed with
pleasure and interest your own productive career. So mch so, that I
am going to ask you to send me an occasional reprint, of your more geberal
writings, perhaps opposite numbers of what I em enclosing.

I also remember the lab. in your course, and did not think that that
would have augured very well for ay aptitude in chemistry.

After almost ten years in an agricultural college department (which did
not mitter in the slightest as concerns the direction of my research) I
have finally veered back towards medicine, more in an adainistrative sense
than in the directions of my cwn work. This is a new kind of a challenge,

but a development long overdue—- the enclosed clipping my explain some of
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It waa good of you to write and I hope we will rin into cone another
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Yours sincerely,

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Joahua ‘Lederberg
Professor of Medical Genetics

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