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To: T-5 John Henry Edman            From: Joshua Lederberg
    Co. B   50 Signal Battalion           50 Haven Avenue
    APO 307   c/o PM  New York NY         New York 38 NY
                                        
                                          1 June 1945

Dear Jack:

    I should have written this letter some time ago, as it may be
already too late to reach you, but I didn't realize how little I had
told you in my last letter.  Briefly, it is my understanding that some 
of the men in the First may be coming through the US, possibly New
York; I wanted to make sure that if this were so, you might know how to
get in touch with me; so here goes, just in case.

     Barbara and Kim got married, so I've moved here to Bard Hall, at
169 St. & Haven Avenue.  The phone here is WA-3-6800, and you could
leave a message;  Tonight is the eve of a final examination in
Anatomy, so our first medical  year will soon be over.  Although I'll
be on vacation (that is leave) from mid-June to early July, I'll
probably be here over that time working on my  liver research.  If
you can't get in touch with me here, call up my mother at WA-7-3581.

     All this may be false alarm, since you're in Service Forces, but
you never can tell, so I thought I'd send you this just in case.  I
hope it's not; if you do come through here Tony and I will give you
a real welcome.  At any rate I'll be waiting to hear from you about
your (c'est a dire the Army's) plans for the immediate future.
WE're still 'sweating it out here' but it's not bullets, or waiting
to go home or to the Pacific, but finals, and inconclusive experiments
that never seen to work! 

     Hope to be seeing you soon.

                                         As ever, your pal,

                                               Josh

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Notes:
RM = Robert Mavis, was in Chemical Corps in South Pacific
Kim, Barbie -- Atwoods
Arn = Arnold Perlow
Tony = Iannone