The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation 
250 Park Avenue New York NY 10017 212 986 7050 
November 23, 1976 
Donald S. Fredrickson, M.D. 
Director 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Dear Dr. Fredrickson: 
To reply to your letter of 17 November regarding this 
Foundation’s role in recombinant DNA research: at present 
we do not, nor do we plan to support, any research involving 
recombinant DNA. If, in the future, we should consider such 
an activity, we would in principal agree to use the NIH 
guidelines insofar as instructions to our grantees are concerned. 
I hope this answers satisfactorily your request. 
Very sincerely 
/ 
J. Stauffer Lehman, Jr., M.D 
Vice President 
JSL/cr 
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