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Mvember 3, 19%

     So now the imnediate'fuss and feathers' is over, and except for a
tremeddeus mai 1 bag I have to read through,  I must concentrate on daily realities

again.  I wonder i f you can have
from Hr. Nobel's tfme bombs.

any i de; how much fuss there i s in the US

     There is one practical matter I would 1 ike to ask you  help on. It
would be hopeless to try to make a personal answer to every kind greeting we
have received, but we would 1 i ke to try in the following way.

    Could I ask you to obtain three or four possible samples of pictorial
cards showing some distinctly Stockholm motif, from which we might choose one
to have imprinted with a greeting, perhapsjust "Grateful thanks and the season's
greeting from Joshua and Esther l.ederbergf'.  I wi 11 give you the exact number of
cards we would need, and the exact inscription, after we choose the card, but
we wi 11 need probably about 360, perhaps more if we use this as our llhri stmas
card too.

     We thought that mail ing these cards from Stockholm might lend an extra
mrsonal touch that we could not otherwise easi ty provide.

     We are al so awaiting other general advice on practical details for the
trip and the presentations:  after all we have never attended so formal a ceremony!

Grateful thanks and season's greeting