February 24, 1958

Professor George Klein
Department of Tumor Biology
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm 60, Sweden

Dear George:

Thank you for yours of ths 18th. Esther and I would very much like the
opportunity of submitting abstracts but it happens that we are both just in
the midst of soms rather exciting experiments. If we can have a few weaks
more, we can promise to send you the abstracts. You can, if you like, re-
serve space for them now if that would help you.

As to the financial arrangements, I am happy to say that I was informed
of a grant for $500.00 from the AIBS. We can probably manage to get expenses
between here and New York from local sources though this is not yet certain.
There still remains a very considerable gap before we will approach the basic
travel cost for the two of us. We are prepared to take some of this out of
pocket, but I am sure you can anticipate this situation. I am rather uncertain
whether we will be able to take advantage of the charter flight which has been
organized by the Society of American Bacteriologists. That would have saved
us about $75.00 each. To summarize, we can anticipate a total expense, calcu—
lated from New York, of about $1150.00. This will at least give you som idea
of the extent of the deficit. I might suggest now that you contact Kauffmann
or Zrskov in Copenhagen as I will be more than willing to speak there and it
may be possible to reduce the deficit by some honorarium from them. If you
are willing to take the trouble it might be more politic for you to approach
them than for me to do so.

Unless you have somathing that you would like to do in Knoxville on the
evening of April 5, why don't you join us for the return trip. It is true we
will be a little busy, especially greeting other people coming to the symposium,
but perhaps you would not mind helping us in that task. The plane connections
between Knoxvilie and Madison are rather dreary in any case and I am sure the
company would liven up the trip.

Yours cordially as ever,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Medical Genetics

JL/ew