June 29,1954

Dear Joshua,
Thank you very much for your last two letters.I had much
pleasume in knowing thek news of your Professorship. It is good that
your administrators show a sign of appreciation that nobody else haa@
done as much as you have,in microbial genetics (and in a very short

‘time indeedp

Theresults obtained lately fro my pilot fermentation pez
mitted me to decide a date for leaving,and I have just got the boat
reservation for Aug.15 approximately... It will be a Slow boat,a freigh-
ter; but the Rockefeller pays for only one person's fare,and that time
of the year would be wasted anyhow, The worst is that,with such kind
of ships,there is more uncertainty than usual as to the date of arrival,
which should,however be t*e last days of August or beginning of Septem- ,;
ber. . :

If you are in New Work ,and leave for Madison,after our
arrival (alternatively,we might join you at Woods Hole if you do not
come to New York),it would certainly be very good for us to travel
with you and Fsther . I shall try to get a driving license in New York
if I have time. It will be all right to collect your messages - at Davis'
lab,provided he is there at that time; I have met Davis at she congres-
ses and was planning to see him in New York anyhow.As to our stay in
New York,all we have is 4 suggestion by the Novicks of a hotel (Winslow).
We may be staying there a very short time. Any other suggestion is gra-
tefully acknowttdged in advance. Depending on free time in New.York, a4
we might perhapg go straight to Cold Spring Harbor 3;it seems thkely the.
town labs. will be mostly empty an early september.

“As to the book,I agree with most of what you say,except
that I am slightky suspicious that @ discussion off ddaptation in higher |
organisms might take us a bit too far, unless we keep it to narrow Landes
‘of course, the stress ,and space to be given ‘to the various aspects ané .
khe parts of the book are the main problem for which direct contact will
be essential. foncerning adaptation to antibodieszit is such a fascina- >
ting subject that I would tend to include it,considering it rather as
a related problem which may help to thhow Light)ana receive lightyfrom, :
the main issue of adaptation to chemotherapeutics. On the other hand,
the title "Genetica and Chemotbarapy" which you proposed some time ago a
seems so good that it would be 4 pity to give it up by deviating exces-—
sively from it.

My own address will remain the present usual one until the
day we leave. As soon as I shall know the date of my arrival in New
York I shall let you know,by cable if necessary-especially if it were
altered later. .
My wife and I are locking forward with great pleasure to

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our trip.
Yours sincerely

Keon

P.S.Thanks for your statistical notes, which tend to show a situation

  
 
 

comparable,on average,to the one here.EspeGially Pupa would appreciag,
a few suggestions on the climate conditions

,4ssuming that we stay.
until Dace,.ber |

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