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Subject: Early work on lambda

Wed Nov 6 10:59:12 EST 2002
Dear Joe:

What you write seemed substantially correct to my recollection.
You are right, Max and Jean seemed to have no compunctions about working or publishing

on lambda, while we were still trying to digest our findings. I have no other specific

recollection, except that I had always found Salva to be trustworthy and considerate in matters
of this kind.

The earliest written reference to Weigle I can find , 1/31/51, is in a letter from Bill Hayes
which I will send you. The Pasteur group Elic in particular, was quite eager , to assimilate
K-12 recombination to phage. But I have trouble finding written record of that. It may be in
some of their evanescent C.R. “publications”.

There is probably more documentation to be found at: http://profiles. NLM.nih.gov/BB

See, esp., my letter to Salva, 1/30/50
which I hard-copy to you in any case.

Thank you for these interesting tdibits.

Joshua f