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January 22, 1975

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

Professor Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Professor Lederberg:

Thank you very much for your letter of December 19. I am sorry to
be so long in answering, but I have been quite busy and my correspondence
has suffered.

I appreciate your sending me the reference to the biographical state-
ment by Beadle in the Annual Review of Biochemistry. I had already seen
it, and have found it very interesting and useful. I wish more scientists
would write such autobiographical accounts. It would make the work of the
historian considerably easier, and give us access to a whole body of in-
formation that is often lost to posterity.

Again, many thanks for your help and interest.
Sincerely yours,

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