14th Novzmb?r I.968 Dr. h'. Gobind Xhorana University of Visconsin Instituta for Xnzyma Research 1710 University Avsnua Madison, Wisconsin 53706 U.S.A. Dear Gobind I was dalighted to receiv:> your letter. You can imagine how happy wa all wzrz when the news of this year's prize rzachszd us. I was at the cottag. at the time but my sacrGtary talaphon2d ma immediately to tell ma the good news. I am suru you will have a wondzrful time in Stockholm. %v,zryonz dozs their bzst to make you feel at homa and the Royal Family are very easy to g?t on with. There is inavitably a czrtain amount of formality but even that can bz quite fun if you take it in the right spirit. You arz certainly g?tting on vsry fast with tha synth?sfs of tho alanin?- tRNA g 2nz . It would bs most fascinating to 533 how it all works out. I vzry much hope that we shall bs able to mjat soma time during thz winter but I must t,zll you that I am not vzry kazn to coma to Madison on this trip. If I cam3 at all it would have to be right at thz end of January or during the last wok of February and thzsa ar.3 both tzrriblz times for travalting. If I possibly can I shall go south to avoid th3 dislocation so often caused by snow and bad weather. Sydney is now d ,?zp in work on thz nematodes and tht gan*tic maDping of his b3havioural. mutants has gon-l very wa11 indeed. Tony Stratton is hard at work on the neuro-anatomy and nauro-physio?ogy of ascaris. Thz nsw extension to our lab should be ready soma times in January and w3 have no lass than fivs nzw p?opls coming during the rzmaind.2r of tha academic year who ar? likaly to take part in new work. I am trying as hard as I can to raad un about embryology and the nllrvous system and I hava baen finding it impossible to kzap in dztailad touch with all thz work on nucleic acids and protein synthesis. So I don't think under the circumstances that it would bs sensible for rn3 to tak* tim3 off to corn3 to talk to your group at Madison. 3ut I do hop? vzry much that you will b? abls to get out to La .JolLa. . - 2 - Dr. H. Gobind Khorana 14th November 19 68 Cur Annual Committee Mete tings take place on tha wezkand around tha 8th February so that would not ba a good time to come. I havz to be in Stanford for a wa,ek, starting on Monday the 17th February. I don' t know exactly whsn I wilt arrive at La Jolla but I ,txpact I shall be thera by Monday the 3rd. So, any time between tha 3rd and the 14th would be suitable except for the w??kend of the 8th and 9th. If you want to fix a przcisa date as early as this I suggest you ring Leslie telling him thz details of my plans which I hava just given you. F.H.C. Crick .