Istgenetica - Pavia

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LOth October 1960

Professor Joshua Lederberg,

ISTITUTO DI GENETICA Department of Genetics,
UNIVERSITA DI PAVIA Stanford, iledical School,
VIA SANT’ EPIFANIO, 14 Palo Alto, California

PAVIA

wy dear Joshua,

I hope you have received my tape on the
questionnaire of consanguinity etc. in drug idiosyn-
cracies,. I heard nothing more about it: have you
given up the idea? Perhaps the major obstacle
is the low frequency of consanguinity in the U.S.

But the state of lnowledge on the subject is so
poor, and there are likely to be many pockets of
high consanguinity, that it may still be worth
doing it.

Since our return I have had so many
urgent assignments and visits, that only now have
I started breatning again.

You will hear from Giovanni all details
of the present stand of my own situation (which is not
altered since I left the States) of the general
situation of Adriano's enterprises, still unsettled,
of the Interist story and our present hopes and aims
in it, so that I do not need to go into them now.

Giovanni will also carry your slippers.
I had trouble in finding them larger, but they shoulc be
available in a fortnight or so. Should you find tle present
vair too small, you can give it to Giovanni,we wll ship
a larger pair. lund.

I have an urgent request. ‘hen I was in
stanford I had all instructions on transformation
by Gene Nester but not the strains of B. subtilis. Could
you take with you cultures of a wild type end a suitable
mutant (perhaps a His- Try-) and give then to Giovanni?
-~ 2.
What if I spent part of April, May and
June in Stanford, with the partial purpose of helping

you with the course?

All the best to you and Esther.
Yours,

bree
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