Dear Braces

Hail the kappy bridegroen] and all that! We were delichted tc heer
OL yous mexriage, Gnd ay you rightly anticipate, you have our very best
widhes., We have one demand of you, though, that you send us 4 snapshot
ox vhe felicitous pair, so we can at least try to vieuslize the Stockers.

I suppose the first conmubial conseqgences will be some trensduction
experinents with polio virus.

How you eert ust cess to the States for your honeymoon, if you
gan possibly mana, 4t,. And if you do, you mat vieit us et Medieon for
a few days. (Let ine weutiun crassly that we wk have a speciai eiuch find
fob Salmonella geneticists ((no kidding, that's the specific category, set
up by the terns of a grant to save people in Vet. Sei.)) and we can pay your
lure te York, aod enough of an honcrarium besides to cover Mrs. Stocker's
trip tos.

i've goas over your paper quicxly, and think you have dene an excellent
job of reconciliation; you have perhaps leaned over backwards in contrasting
our data, but I will tay te de the seme too (nobkasse oblige you know): as fT
got «ta little perspective ui tbe matter, I wonder what all tha fuss was,
and it certainly wasn't worth all the extra time the discussion meant for
both of us; still, perueps we are now both older, wiser ond wearder for it,
if I could have iwdean Low feverything would boii done, I would bapplly
have joined your suthcrahip in the beginning, but I must admit that the
main thing that sepsretes ws is style: cvereondensed vs, overdiseursive,
If we could have Lean together a couple of maths again, I am sure we card
have hit a happy medium. But ,be that as it may, this will work out very
well,

As you may gather, I have no exceptions at ail to your paper, or to yopr
mumkakk attributions in it. In my own account, T would not dfeniss so mickly
the production of many trails in softer agar, as there fs 2 gradunl transition,
aud I doubt that any medium will show all the E cells, and none of the mep's
as wajor trails. You may be right that in hard enough azar, only (tt not all)
E ceile show trails, At p. 5, "side by side” shevld be altered to *eentempo-~
rabeously", or the Iike,

My @wm paper has been lying fallow all this time, I've beer rether fed
up witi writing, for one Zning; for another, this bas been very difgicult
to organise, ani T (lon't+ have the adventage of a single hypothesis, But I an
planning to complete the revision during the next acnth, and put it into
Ganetics. The tentative title will be: "Hereditary Chains in Salmmelila", I
doubt that J will play up the terminology, and may switeh to unilincer in the
text: the ddvantags of "chains" 1s that they can be both simple and branched,
g >»

which is a little narde: to convey with —linear. This partly reflects a

difference in viewpoint, as you have the principle that both E and mcp
ere strictly unilineaer.

More comment will probably accompasay my completed draft.
Can you send me your exact authorship and title?

Mice job on that paper for Symp. SGM. I'm looking forward to the rest of it.

Eaclosed a resume on a mapaoam paper on phase variation that's just gone in
to Gene tdcs.

Ire. again hastily,

oobi Lederberg

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