October 9, 1940:

Dear Charlie:

       I was pleased to get your letter but hope that I
did not give you the impression that I wanted to take any of the
material back.   I have done considerable work on those that I
sent you and should send you the data right away.   I shall try
to organize it within the next few days for you.   Bently Glass
did not return it until sometime last spring and then I got into
such a rush I did not even answer the questions he had brought up.
I have had a lot to do and havelnt turned my attentions to it.
Just now I am finishing up a paper on broken chromosomes and then
the ring chromosome material - changed rings and characters - comes
next to be written up.   It has'nt left me much time along with
7 graduate students to watch for cytological training, problems,
etc.    I have'nt given too much thought to what should be done
with the data I have already accumulated.   Possibly it would be
best to send it along to you and let you decided what has been
done.   Ye might write up some of it now as a joint paper -%owW
being sometime this school year!   I feel under quite a &oad now;
If I t&e a sectin of it, it will not be along the lines you
will be working on - that is,  the part to be given to a graduate
student.   It will be on chromosome breakage following crossing-
over; but the translocation material would be used as the
material.

        About Philadelphia.  I have not made definite glans
but will probably wind up there anyway.   I dont relish going,
somehow, but it will probably be the best thing to do.   Xe can
talk then about steps to be taken.   About writing a book.
The one Marcus and I started never got beyond three chapters.
1'Je both then got swamped with other work and now it just sits
in incompletion.  I doubt if I could take on doing another one
as long as I am here or unless I quit working on corn plants for
a while.   I shall think it over.  It might be wise to quit the
work for something else.  It would be done then but I doubt if
it could otherwise.    I suppose that you are in somewhat of the
same boat, too - with teaching, research ma graduate students.
I dent see how people can do all three well enough and also try
to keep up with the litera,ture.   Burkholder used to do it but he
aid nothing else and worked morning, noon a;nd night on it. He
wanted to do all that but most people do not,

      I did not understand your remark about your job not
being  secure.   What is the situation there?  Bid you think when
yo-L took it that there wolld be an impermanent tenure?   Let me
krlow what it is like.  If there is any chance that you will not
stay, I should like to know in case I hear of anything.   With
so much moving about in genetics, something Should open UP.
Also, the war possibilities may make lots of difference in what
does haps-en to is.   I am not going to  think too far ahead.

Vi.11 send you the data soon -