November 7, 19%

Dr. Willis E. Lamb
Cl arendon Laboratdry
Parks Road
&ford, Engl anL:
Dear Dr. Lamd:

I was very happy to receive your letter and its imp1 ication
that you were 1 i kely to remember such a poor student of
physics, or is that perhiCps what was so outstanding! The on1 y
regret I had was that your postscript might have tempered my pleasure
in answering your note.  t certainly do remember the opportunity
of attending your lectures very well indeed and I'm only sorry
that I am about to move to Stanford at a time too late to be able
to have you as a nearby co1 legue.

I knew that you were  in E gland but had forgotten just where or I
might have been presumpt F us enough to try to look you up when we
passed through Oxford 1 st Auguat. As it was, I'm afraid we did
not wander very far from the Mitre Hotel and a quick tour of the
colleges in the company of some friends from London.

I hope that the course of events is going to bring you back to
Stanford some time and if -3 that you wi 11 remember to give us a
chance to show off the new Medical Center there to you.  Thi s dev-
elopment at Stanford promises to be  an archi tectura! gem as well
as an exciting center for biological research.

Yours, as ever,

Joshua Lederberg

JL/mk