June 25, 1969

Mr. W.A. Koshland
President
A.A.Knopf, Publishers
501 tidlson Avenue
New York, Mew York 10022

Dear Hr. Koshland,

       I return from a brief trip to Washington, including some business
   (see clipping attached) not totally irrelevant to our correspondence,
    to find your kind letter of June 13th.
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  None of my friends or acquaintances has any doubt whatever about
the identification of the character in "The Andromeda Strain", and I
find it hard to believe that the parallel is entirely fortuitous.
However, I do not suggest that it is nalicious and as far as I can
tell no ham has coma of it and so long as this remains the case I would
be happy to let the matter rest right here.

  It would, hovever, be prudent to follov your suggestion that
!'Stanford" be regarded as a misprint for a fictional location and that
this be corrected accordingly in future editions.

   Mr. Wise has also rarssured me that he will be less careless about
any possibility of "misidentification" in the movie version. For all
of which I am grateful.
                  Sincerely yowxr

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Cermtics

JL/KK