CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
      1530 P STREET, NORTHWEST
        WASHINGTON, D. C. 20005

October 11, 1983

Dr. Barbara McClintock
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
P. 0. Box 100
Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724

Dear Barbara:

  All of us in Carnegie Institution of Washington rejoice
in yesterday's announcement that you have been chosen to receive
the Nobel Prize.  Never has a Prize been more richly deserved.

  And, never has anyone better exemplified the reasons for the
Institution's existence--to seek out and support the uncommonly
creative individual who is engaged, in Mr. Carnegie's own words,
in "basic research of a pioneering nature".

With warmest best wishes,

JDE:bd

Yours sincerely,