April 2, 1935. Dear Charlie: I just got your letter and since I have wanted to write to you for some time, it. I shall sit right down and do I was glad to get some news of you. this place is very quiet. With %rcus gone It is difficult to get used to not being with one of the old gang. I am glad, though, that uarcus is at last placed in a good job alt:-iough I would not like to be out in the dust-drought area just now. $arriet was here last week for her spring vacation. She had to go back Sunday. the place is guite dherted. Our vacaticn began this Monday and The people in the department ane taking the vacation seriously. harriet looked well and seemed to be enjoying her place at Connecticut although she has to work hard to get used to the routine. Next SO bad. She has the capacity to get along that she has fitted in very nicely. \Jhile got her corn ready to plant for the summer. go to Woods Hole but is coming here for the Jane will also be back too, so that I shall - ye& it will not be with people so well she was here. she She decided not to whole summer,. find enough people to play tennis with. I was glad to hear you are still out for the sports but then lmew you would gravitate toward it if 5% were around. About my plans. My job at Johns Hopkins is definitely off. I got a letter tim btz stating that the girl Bcho was goin g to get married ayld leave got married but decided not to leave and he felt he had to keep her on. However, I think th::t I shall come do$wn to Washington and &,ltimore anyway sometime toward the end of this month. I shall let you know more definitely the dates so that we can get together. Stadler is going to be in lilahhington for a week and I thought it mi&-ht be nice to be there for a day while he is there too. It is difficult for me to get an extensive period of time off because of students. I have ~YO to take care of and their corn is coming along. Silze they are both new at the game a.& since there is no one around now to help out in case of an emerc:ency 1 dont feel like getting off at any time. However, I shall try for five days or so even if their corn is ready. No sign of a job has turned up for me as yet. I Cant say that it makes me feel very peppy to be still in the unemployed list although 1 am getting a dec&nt salary just now. The uncertainty gets under my skin a bit and hinders my spirits. liZy work has suffered in consequence without the necessary stimulus. However, I hate a few things coming along that are interesting, aqd I hope to pick u, a few more this summer. The paper &rcus and I are writing for the Botanical Review is almost ready. I should have had it ready this past yeek.as I promised Marcus I would but I just could not get at it. I am not at all satisfied with it but- after reading Sax*s last in the Botanical g-1 Review I know that we Csnt fall too low. The possibilities are good but we have not made the best of them. I shall be &d to get totether with you ad talk over problems. I need the stimulus again to get real excited about the work. The ring-chromosome stuff has come along well, I have found the somatic breaking ur, of the chromosomes. I?OW I want to get the experiment to show that broken ends will certainly reunite. I hope to get some more X-ray translocations which will give me the right set up. I have one now that is a beauty - a piece from the short arm of nine (ineludilag a sec- tion of the large knoti) has been translocated into the long arm. The p,'S@ce is large enough so ths-t the normal chro;=osome 9 synapsis with the translocated section. Khen crossing over occurs in this region, a chromatid with two insertion regii;ns and a large chronati2 with no insertion &&formed. yhe crossing over is high enough in this regisn to give me plenty of figures with breaks in anaphase I ( possibly as high as 309). If I can ge t another one with high breaks I am already to test the 'pre?k and reunion idea. I have written to Anderson for some satellite translocatioss to try and test out the disjunction with several &ritical cases but have not heard from him so that we will have to use what material we hET:e. I have three tramlucations azd you have &everal. \ve should be able to get some ideas faarm these cases. mderson may not want to send on the material. Prehaps he wants the problem worked there himself. Beadle wrote me that Anderson is not doing much work on corn since the Drosophila stuff came out. It rather took the wind away from his sails. It was too bad, too, since he ha& gotten so far with it. There must be plenty of problems in his material thc..t he is not working that are peculiar to maize and best worked there. At least Beadle thinks this is the case. However, he may be discouraged again. What have you heard? We can talk about this when I see you. I got a nice letter from i)obsha.nsky not so long ago. He sent me a picture of his daughter - very nice looking child. He seems to be enjoying being a father, I guess I have much of the news out of the way. Ye a0 not know who is going tc take %rcus place in the department. No one has heard. EJeedless to say, the-e have been plenty of applications sent in. I dont lmow when Emerson will be back, possibly some time in &y. I cant imagine that he will want to stay in Pasadena doing nothing for too long. No more now, Charlie,and 1111 be seeing yo-G sooni