May 15, 1968

Dr. Tetsuo Iino

National Institute of Genetics
Yata 1,111

Misima, Sizuoka-ken

Japan

Dear Tetsuo:

Thank you very much for the efforts you have been making in connection
with the publication of my articles in Japanese. I am personally very
agreeable to the proposal of publishing thirty selected articles, but

I do have to mention some complexities. I have just submitted to the
Doubleday Publishing €ompany a manuscript consisting of the first hundred
of these articles, together with some writings,for publication in a book
which, for the moment, I call "Clipped Eagles". If there is any prospect
of a Japanese edition of this complete collection, it might be preferable
to proceed with that rather than with the abbreviated set that you sug-
gested.

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While I discuss the matter with Doubleday, I would be very much interested

in pur own opinion as to the relative merits of the two approaches. On

the other hand, even if a complete edition were to be published, it prob-
ably would net interfere with {t if some smaller number, say some ten or
twelve, were to be used inc onnecéion with the Kagaku Asahi issue on genetics.
This then also raises the possibility that that magazine might wish to bid

on the Japanese rights for the complete collection. The German rights to

it had already been spoken for, even before I completed my contract with
Doubleday in the United States.

Anyhow, I will discuss with Doubleday what @heir reaction would be to these
various proposals, and will give you any new information I can get as soon
as I receive it. The Washington Post would not be involved with the print-
ing of collections from past articles, but only with the use of single
articles in newspaper form.

I have been meaning to respond, with my deepest thanks, to your previous
letter about your unsuccessful efforts to interest the Japanese newspapers
in using my column regularly. I have run into a very similar difficulty
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before, namely a misunderstanding about the relationship of the column to

the Washington Post's regular news wire arrangements. They have nothing to

do with one another! My editor at the Washington Post, Mr. Howard Simons,
would be very agreeable to dealing with any newspaper on equal terms, regard-
leas of whether or not they have other relationships with the Post's news
service. I have had exactly this diffaculty before, that papers that already
have a news wire contract are aggrieved because they have to make an additional
payment for my column: newspapers not dealing with the Post start with the
assumption that they are left out if their competitors, rather than they, have
the Post's regular news service. But if it could influence the situation, I
wish you would emphasize to any of theeditors that you have talked to that the
arrangements are entirely independent.

IT am in any case sending you a set of articles from Science and Man since
September 1967 as you asked, and I will prepare the short comment for Japanese
readers that you asked me about. This will be in anticipation of whatever
decision we can come to about the use of the articles.

I will give you further information about the channel for official approval
and further contacts when I have more information.

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Ledebberg
Professor of Genetics

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