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This specific piece of correspondence is from Aaron Novick to Esther M. Lederberg and Joshua Lederberg. Esther M. Lederberg had requested copies of all correspondence addressed only to her, or to both herself and Joshua Lederberg, be given to her after her divorce from Joshua Lederberg in 1966. However, the documentation was never made available to her.
Because Joshua Lederberg did not cooperate with efforts to share copies of papers and documentation after the divorce, and the Trustees of the Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg Estate never granted permission for the NLM site for Joshua Lederberg to display such communications after Esther M. Lederberg's death, it is easy to understand why the NLM did not seek Esther M. Lederberg's permission to display the letter Aaron Novick wrote to her and Joshua Lederberg on January 5, 1953. However, even if Esther M. Lederberg had provided a copy of this correspondence, she still could not provide copyright permission to display the correspondence on the NLM website; only Aaron Novick, as the author of this letter, could provide copyright permission. Given the several false claims on the NLM website that letters were reproduced and displayed with Esther Lederberg's permission, it is highly questionable whether the NLM's statement that Aaron Novick gave his permission to display this letter, is true. It behooves the NLM to make evidence of Dr. Novick's permission to use his January 5, 1953 letter to Esther M. Lederberg and Joshua Lederberg, available.
This specific piece of correspondence may be found in two locations
on Joshua Lederberg's NLM website. The same letter is identified as
both:
bbaftm and bbamml.
http://profiles.NLM.NIH.gov/BB/