January 14, 1957

Dr. J. J. Weigle
Caltech
Pasadena 4, Calif.

; Dear Dr. Weigle:
o We have your two letters from Puert@ Vallerta, and the copy to Morse

/ from Pasadena. ie had waited to reply until you had returned to Pasadena
/ thinking you went to Mexico for qiiet and seclusion.

The Gal Lp. ‘wl you ested were, h r, sént several days
ago and should be In yo ands very soon.

Wa did not realize you seriously wanted us to commnt on the advisability
of your publishing the note: it appeared to us that this was already com-
pleted and submitted. This is so much a matter of personal temperament
that we hesitate to forward our om views, and certainly would aot insist
on them. However, as you now state that you do intend to proceed with the
analysis discussed in our correspondence, we do wonder if this note is
not somewhat premature. In similar circumstances —-e.g., the behavior of
prophage markers in transduction, and the unstable Lpt phenotypes,—— we
have felt that the story should be completed before it waa published. “
But this is not a sort of question that can be profitably discussed in e
written correspomlence. Fortunately, there is still some personal liberty
in sclence, and not a rigid code to which we mist conform.

VIG I FOR

 

As wealso brought up earlier, Dr. Morse is most immediately interested
in the problem of growth of HFT lambda. Although we are, of course, deeply

concerned, he has to be consulted first with regard to any 'division of
laubor' in further studies.

     

i to be completed. An unpublished \summary of our wor
“being drafted now as a ‘progress repart'-for research \_
gronts, and you .and Kellenbe j wili receive cupiss when this is ready.

Yours sineerely,
CC: MLM

Joshua and Uether MM.
Lederberg