WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

 

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
SAINT LOUIS

DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY
EUCLID AVENUE AND KINGSHIGHWAY

April 10, 1959

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

433 Gerona Road

Stanford University Campus
Stanford, California

Dear Josh:

I wanted to tell you that I'm going abroad for a month and wondered
whether our paths might cross and if so whether we'd be more successful in
meeting than in Bombay. A U.S. biochemistry mission to Russia is organized
to get even with a trip made here last year by a Russian group. I could'nt
resist the temptation of going. Carter (H.E. » Bloch, Davis, Lehninger and
I are leaving Washington on April 2kth for Moscow 'via' Stockholm. I'll be
back about a month later.

I've tried at long range to be helpful in the operations of the Chemistry
and Medicine selectievt committees. You probably know better than I how these
negotiations are proceeding. I'll check some time next week but let me know
if there is something in particular I should do.

I guess you've already assumed I know too little about Elizabeth Russell
to offer any comment. I also know nothing about Szwarc. Should the Johnson
negotiations break down - and I won't be depressed if they do ~ there are
other possibilities that are reasonably attractive and Szware surely deserves
attention.

We've been having fun with both the polymerase and phage enzymesand I'm
looking forward to exchanging notes with you very soon. We'll pack up the
lab from May 28th to June 2nd, our home on June 9th and should be landing
on the beaches around June 15th.

As ever,

fort
Arthur Kornberg.

AK/pb