May 10, 1966
Dear Francis
My return was delayed for over a week due to a persistant [sic] flu which did not disappear. Hence my failure to return via England. I most appreciated your comments on my book, most of which I assume your memory is more correct. On several I am not sure -- (e.g. Odile certainly did the decorations on the other hand, the fact that most of the dancers would be black was certainly an inducement that it might be fun --) In several cases I'm sure I'm right. e.g. Bragg himself told me that he avoided the tea room for fear of hearing your voice. Now I suspect I need about one month of steady work to make the corrections -- much rewriting of the first 9 chapters -- Doing this in Geneva seems silly so I shall probably put off the task until mid summer.
We sent a copy of Capyechi's new end group data to Marchev [?] it
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definitely establishs [sic] that the following NH2 terminal sequences exist
f-neth-ala-
f-neth-ser
very little of any f-neth-neth exists
given Keller's end group data. I suspect in time
f-neth-tlr
will be found. These structures no as hot chance [?] that the beginning sequences may be
AUGGC . . . f-neth-ala
AUGUC       f-neth-ser
AUGAC       f-neth-tlr
Could this be a way to control the rate at which RNA polymerase attachs [sic] to cistron operors [?]?
Trust Odile is now completely recovered.
See you in CSH
Jim