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Dear Stephen: 
I wrote a long letter to you, but deciding to supress it along with three 
others to Dick, Durall, and others because of the paranoid furor I was in when I 
wrote, I fear I have also supressed a good deal of important information. Not 
knowing what I had written which needed to be said— — ^when I suppressed what was 
better left unsaid — ~”I now write with misgivings and uncertainty. 
DO NOT EVEN SUGGEST ANY REPLACEMENTS FOR ANYONE FOR THE ALPHA HELIX . I 
have plenty in mind and I do NOT want anyone from other sources than my own 
suggestions. Make no offers to ANYONE, and be sure Dick Sorenson and others in 
our department DO NOT GET ON THE LIST beyond those I have already designated. 
The urgency in this cannot be overstated, for I will sooner cancel the 
trip, turn it over to others, than let it get off with anyone on whom I do not 
want to travel with. This is of primary importance. I am completely without 
compromise on this issue. 
I am worried that you and Judy have NOT sent me copies of all 
correspondence relative to Alpha Helix ... thus my own direct correspondence with 
them is at times at odds with yours. Please be sure I get everything, including 
copies of all they send to you. I would have had copies of the letters 
activating people, and even of their curricula vitaes etc. sent in. Please get 
this off to me soon! ! ! I am NOT Isolated, and I do attend to all these matters 
with dispatch. 
NO TECHNICIANS. I do not want a single slot filled with "service 
personnel" .. .1 .e. juniors to do scut-work for seniors. That is NOT the spirit of 
expeditions. Thus, be sure that Paul Brown, Elichard Ferber and Stephen 
Wiesenfeld know all and everything they need to know about handling tissue 
cultures and plan to do it all on beaches and on board WITHOUT anyone doing the 
lab work for you I am planning an approach which will mean that we need 
all the doctors we can get, and we shall all be busy with general survey 
matters, and EVERYONE will help with EVERYTHING. . .thus in blood collecting, 
there will be absolutely NO ONE free from the chore of separating off sera, 
freezing them down, etc. etc. The division of labor may be wise- — but it would 
be demoralizing on such a trip. More about this later. 
About Equipment: TRAVEL FUNDS ARE CRITICAL. . .if we get there we can manage 
with stethescope and hands and eyes and ears alone. DO NOT WASTE THE SCRIPPS 
FUNDS FOR OUR TRAVEL ON ORDERING EQUIPMENT FROM THEIR OR THE U. OF CALIFORNIA 
SUPPLY. Thus, all that you order is taken from the total sum, and cuts down on 
the travel funds needed. The three unfilled berths may come from France or 
Chile or Argentina, and travel funds to bring them there and back MUST BE LEFT 
in the Scripps total of only $20,000. Thus, I would rather not take ANYTHING 
from Scripps or U. of C. and supply it all from our own lab on our own shipping 
funds. We can use Govt. Bill of Lading, our own shipping and franking privilege 
to California, Hawaii and even to Honiara without touching our budget or travel 
funds. DO NOT dent the $20,000 for such things. Joe thinks you are are and I 
think you are doing so. Forget about equipment. We can always scrounge it the 
last minute as we do here and have done for 15 years. We have NO OTHER SOURCE 
