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AUG 20 !9/4

Dare, August 16, 1974

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics

Richard W. Lyman

PERSONAL

Dear Josh:

The enclosed exchange of letters with Carl Chapman, Executive Vice
President of Commonwealth and former Dean of the Medical School at
Dartmouth, is self-explanatory. Clearly Carl is looking for some bold
new thinking - - provided it meets his three stern "Givens. " Naturally,

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Given "c"' is especially attractive to a university president’

I’m writing to ask you to give the matter a few moments‘ thought and
then give me the results. Please don't circulate the correspondence
further. I hope to go to Carl with some good ideas as to a general
approach that the Fund might take, backed up by some notion of how
Stanford would respond were said general approach to be adopted. The
Stanford specifics are not likely to be difficult; a good general approach
is tougher to devise.

Give me a call, drop me a note, or better yet let's talk together when
it's convenient for you. I'll be in Maine from August 23 through
September 8; otherwise most of the time I'm here.

Yours ever,

Richar . Lyman

Encs.

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