The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Title:

Letter from Edward C. Curnen, Jr. to Joshua Lederberg

Description:

This letter accompanied a portrait of Avery when it was returned to Rockefeller University in 1985. In it, Curnen briefly critiques the likeness of the scientist and the Avery family's distaste for the portrait.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (59,567 Bytes)

Date:

1985-10-17 (October 17, 1985)

Creator:

Curnen, Edward C. Jr

Recipient:

Lederberg, Joshua

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Mary G. McCrea Curnen.

Exhibit Category:

After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community

Relation:

[Maclyn McCarty with a portrait of Oswald T. Avery at the Rockefeller University Hospital] [ca. 1985]

[Oswald T. Avery] (1928)

Box Number: 5

Folder Number: 9

Unique Identifier:

CCAACD

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Photographs, 1923-1985

Folder: Colleagues of O. T. Avery, 1960-1985

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2006-12-12

Annotation by Joshua Lederberg:

Re: gift of portrait of O. T. Avery to Rockefeller University;

jl 12/17/99

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