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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Genetics

January 31, 1969

Dr. Maurice R. Green

William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry
20 West 74th Street

New York, New York

Dear Dr. Green:

The purpose of this letter is to ask you to take one more step
towards making the writings and thinking of Clara M. Thompson more
widely known, I have to express my own deep personal appreciation to
you for having edited the collection "Interpersonal Psychoanalysis"
which I encountered almost accidentally a few years ago and found, with-
out exaggeration, to be a revelation.

My specific proposal is to issue as a separate paperback volume
for wider distribution the section of these papers having to do with
the psychology of women and the problems of womanhood. There must be
millions of people for whom the chapters would convey an especially
thoughtful and necessary message. I do not have to emphasize the
current ferment in problems of education of women and their and our
continued frustrations in seeking to create the social institutions
that can begin to be as well adapted to their needs as we demand they
be to ours. I do not know of any more articulate or scientifically
or psychologically better founded statement of these issues than can
be found in her writings and they certainly should be much more widely
known than they are at the present time.

Sincerely yours,

Josuah Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL/jn

LT. J. P. KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE, DEDICATED TO RESEARCH IN MENTAL RETARDATION
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY HEREDITY NEUROBIOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE

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