THE COMMONWEALTH FUND 
CARLETON 
HARKNESS HOUSE 
1 EAST S EVE NTY- FI FTH STREET 
NEW YORK. N.Y. 10021 
[a I 2 ] 535-0400 
B. CHAPMAN, M. D. 
IESIDENT 
24 November 1976 
Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson 
Director 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Dear Don: 
Your letter dated 17 November addressed to Quigg Newton came 
to me for answer. He retired as President two years ago. 
The Commonwealth Fund is not supporting research or recombinant 
DNA and has no plans to enter the field. NIH guidelines in 
the field will not, therefore, be applicable to us or to our 
grantees unless some of them may be doing such work on grants 
from other sources. We have no information on this topic one 
way or the other. 
Yours sincerely, 
Carleton B. Chapman, M.D. 
President 
CBC/bp 
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