JAN 9 1967
INDIANA UNIVERSITY

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 47405

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AREA CODE 812
JORDAN HALL 222 TEL. NO.

January 6, 1967

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical Center
Palo Alto, California

Dear Josh:

Your letter was most welcome. I too have felt that we have lost
contact and have felt it for a long time and for all of that time have
regretted it deeply.

The news about you and Esther had already reached me and I had
quickly gotten over the initial shock for I am not unaware of how dif-
ficult it is for outsiders to understand what goes on between husband
and wife, even in the cases of those couples who seem to be so admirably
suited to one another. You both have my warmest and best wishes for
very-satisfactory readjustment. ,

I don't know whether Joe Muller has answered your letter yet,
possibly he did before he went to the hospital. You should know that
he has been in the hospital since December 21 and went through a very
rough time for a couple of weeks, but is now beginning to get into
reasonably good shape again. He of course has a bad physical condition
to contend with and this underlies everything else, but on top of it
the mental anguish that he is experiencing in not being able to do
what he wants to do is adding greatly to the difficulties. In his case
it seems that a mental readjustment will be a main difficulty and also
the main need. Thea is much encouraged now by his condition for the
last few days and we hope that before very much longer he can come back
to Bloomington to his home.

This year I am on Sabbatical and am traveling not at all. So at
least for one year I will be in your category in that respect. For the
following year I have already taken on more than I should and none of
the commitments brings me to the West Coast. So I do not know when our
paths will cross, but I am at least happy to know that we share the
feeling of regret for the past interference with communication between
us and that perhaps augurs well for an alteration in the years ahead,

I hope so.

‘YL! Ng0Gd AaNNGS

With warmest best wishes,

Yours,

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