Soop

Columbia University in the City of New York

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

March 20, 1961

Dear Josh and Esther:

T am belatedly catching up on
neglected correspondence. You have been
on my mind since I came back to New York.
I want to thank you both for all the pleasant
times we had together during my recent rather
fabulous sojourn in Palo Alto.

As I may have mentioned, both
problems I had been playing with finally
broke - and gave some positive answers — just
the last few days. The presence of rather
decent amounts of protochlorophyll in the
dark-grown mutants makesit feasibhe to try to
isolate the chloroplast—lamella-forming
machinery from Chlamydomonas, In other words,
a method is available to study organelle
formation in vitro and I am very tempted to
go into it.

wl WROES

Judging from all the press releases,
as well as from Francis, you are both coming
to New York soon, and I am looking forward to
seeing you. How about the theatre? I'd like
to take you to something in honor of Hamilton
and all that. Drop me a line about what you
would like to see and I'll get tickets. By
the way, I'll be in Atlantic City from Monday
to Friday of that week - I hope I don't miss
you on that account. Let me know,

Fondly, .“)
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Nuk