Northwestern University

Date:
1972-1973
Reference:
PP/CRI/E/1/21/10
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Credit: Northwestern University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60201 DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Dr. Francis H. C. Crick MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology University Postgraduate Medical School Hills Road, Cambridge. CB2 2QH Great Britain Dear Francis, We are all very pleased that you are willing to give a lecture at Northwestern at the end of February, and we are looking forward very much to your visit. Even before your letter of December 5 had arrived, I received word from our new Dean that she has made available $ 500 for your honorarium and that she was both delighted and honored that you are willing to lecture here. Your suggested title Our Approach to Developmental Biology sounds exciting and will go on the poster. Likewise, everybody is looking forward to your specialized seminar on Positional Information. I talked to Christoph on the phone, and he and Eva are of course delighted that you are able to visit in their Hawaiian Island Paradise. As for your visit here, I have arranged with Giampiero that you would stay first with him and then translocate to Evanston - however, you never told me whether Odile will be with you. Anyhow, we have plenty of space and both Johanne and I would be delighted if she came along. According to Giampiero, you are expected to spend Wednesday, Feb. 28 and Thursday, March 1 with him, and I would then take you to Evanston on Thursday evening after dinner at Giampiero*s apartment. Your lecture here will be on Friday afternoon at 3.30 p.m. I tried to send you a photographic diary of all our mountaineering ventures in Saas-Fee as a Christmas present, but unfortunately I could not find a suitable album in the States (where everything available is more or less in bad taste), so I have ordered it by air from Switzerland and hope that you will get it within a few weeks. Give my love to Odile. With best wishes for a happy New Year. P.S. Before mailing this letter, I received the copy of your letter to Giampiero. I hope this letter will answer whatever questions you might have had. January 3, 1973 As ever yours Hans Noll