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Large bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, regarding Pontecorvo's visit to Harvard University and offer of a position to work in the Department of Biology there

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In the correspondence Pontecorvo outlines some of his worries and questions relating to the post at Harvard, such as funding, responsibilities, research grants, and retirement prospects, and Professor McGeorge Bundy does his best to answer each query. They also discuss the composition and future of the Department of Biology at Harvard. At one point in their long discussion Pontecorvo writes to let Professor McGeorge Bundy know that he has been offered the Chair of Genetics at Cambridge but "the conditions are so incredible that the chance of my accepting it is rather small.". In his next letter he mentions "Cambridge is off. I have failed to make them be sensible in respect of the facilities for Genetics".In the end Pontecorvo turned down the position at Harvard stating that, "my wife and I have come to the conclusion that we are now too old for the change".

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Large bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, regarding Pontecorvo's visit to Harvard University and offer of a position to work in the Department of Biology there

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