NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITALS
The Clinical Unit of the Tufts-New England Medical Center

171 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02111  Area code 617 5425600

April 9, 1969

Uniting the Boston Disfmmzry,
Boston Floating Ho&z1
for Infants and Children,
and Pratt Clinic-New England
Center Hospital

DERMATOLOGY SERVICE

GEORGE F. WILGBAM, M.D.
nermot010gi0 Genetics Laboratory
Metropolitan Building
260 Tremont Street
5#%i600, ext. 148
41-8448

Marshall Nierenberg, M.D.
National Institutes of Health
National Heart Institute
Building 10 6D 18
Bethesda, Maryland

Dear Doctor Nierenberg:

This note is written in hopes that you would be w&lling to accept an invitation
to be the main speaker at the genetics symposium to be held at the forthcoming
meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology on Saturday, December 6th in
Miami, Florida.

The American Academy of Dermatology is the largest national organization in
this specialty.  I have been asked to organize the yearly symposium on genetics
in dermatology, and I am making strong efforts not only to keep the field alive,
but also to improve its research and teaching performance. You would do gene-
tics, dermatology, and dermatologic genetics a great service if you were in a
position to accept our invitation.  The Academy would be hbppy to defray all
your travel expenses and to offer an honorarium of $200.00. The topic of your
talk would be left up to you, but your work and views on the genetic code would
be just fine.

Hoping that you might accept this inviation, I remain

GFW/ns
P.S.  The first letter sent to you on March 24 apparently went astray in hhe mail.