Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

DEPARTMENT OF

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Box 2036, Yale Station

Mr. Jack Wilkinson,

General Delivery,

Sag IJarbor, LI.I. N.Y.

7 May 1965

Dear Mr. Wilkinson,

I was delighted to hear from you again and to be reminded of our meeting in Athens. I have been doing quite a lot of more work there and must tell you about it sometime. I was also very intrigued with the paper by Snelson and delighted equally with the very adequate scientific presentation and with the beautiful photographs of models objects of beauty in their own right. I wish, I knew enough to give an authoritative opinion on legitimacy of the model. It looks perfectly alright to me, but I vaguely remember a discussion at the Institute of Advanced Study that put forward some painful reason why this sort of picture could not be complete. Early next fall I have just the right physicist friend coming to Yale, and I will put it to him and write you again. The one thing I am sure about at this moment is that it is not hap-hazard or crackpot in the slightest.

I do hope you have a good sabbatical. I had love to come to Long Island and will probably do so sometime in the summer, but my nose is still on the grindstone, and I have no idea when it may be lifted yet.

Yours very cordially,

(signed)Derek J. de Solla Price

Avalon Professor of the

History of Science