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P.O. Box 100, Cotd Spring Harbor, New York 11724 (516) 692-6660

September 1, 1978

Dear Joshua:

Thanks much for the thought to approach Annual Reviews. A letter
to Bill Kaufmann will go off today.

About Rockefeller support to Cold Spring Harbor through its position
as a sponsoring institution - over the past decade you have helped us sub-
stantially, especially at the time when I took over and we needed cash

badly. During those years, we usually received $5000 annually for a total
of $32,500.

Now the days of crisis are over. To formalize this change our Trus~
tees at its May meeting voted that the annual contribution for the spon-
soring institutions be reduced to $1000, and that we cover the travel
expenses incurred by our Trustees' visits here. So, in effect, the contri-
bution is to be largely symbolic and kept largely as a way of insuring that
our sponsors realize their fiduciary responsibility for our long-term well
being. From now on, through our scholarships for our teaching courses, I
suspect the real cash flow will be from us to our sponsoring institutions.

I'll be at your Installation Ceremony on October 16, but most likely
will see you before then. And, of course, I hope we can soon have you and
your wife out to see what we are like.

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Yours sincerely,

Ju
J. D. Watson
Director

President Joshua Lederberg
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021