INDIANA UNIVERSITY
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA

November 30, 1953

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics

The University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Josh:

Thanks for your good letter of the 24th. It might be a good
idea for you to quiz Ruth Dippell concerning my paper when she
comes to visit you, in case there are still unresolved points.
She is pretty familiar with the details. I look rorward to
hearing from you about how your seminar goes ami what the
reactions and criticisms may be.

We are looking forward with great pleasure here to the time of
your talk at the Lilly Laboratories. Just let us know when it
is and we will be glad to put you and Esther up for as long as
you wish to stay.

I don't know where the Sonneborn-Lederberg idea got around to the
book agents, but I presume it is through friends of ours who know
that we have been talking about this for a long time. I think you
are quite right in turning them off the way you have. I have been
doing exactly the same. Meanwhile, I have heard from Woods Hole

and can report first of all that applications for space are not
acted upon until about the first of February and assignments are
made at that time. In the meantime, I am going to file a request
sor a study for the two of us and I'm sending along a copy which
you also are to file. Attached to it are my answers to the items
on which we probably should agree, I spoke to the director of the .
laboratory on long distance not very long ago about another matter
and mentioned that Iws interested in working with you during the
month of August on a library type of study and he told me that there
are several little rooms immediately adjacent to the library which are
reserved for that purpose and that he would recommend that one of
them be assigned to us, I think we will probably not have any
trouble in getting what we want. Do you think a private study room
at $75 a piece for us is worth the difference ($25 to $35) over what
a library desk would cost? Which would you prefer?

Concerning living accommodations, there is nothing much to say
except that it is ordinarily difficult to mt a cottage for a month
as people want to rent for the whole season. I have been informed
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that Dr. Mavor, now living in Cambridge, Mass., sometimes rents his
cottage for a month. I shall write to him. It has also been suggested
that we list our needs with the Janet Renshaw Heal Estate Agency in
Woods Hole in order to be informed of vacancies. I don't know whether
I'll go that far yet or not, What do you think?

Cordially,

T. M, seohvorn

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