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I am in n c r l p t of your latter of 14 April. You ObdOU81y have been doing your hOIn8UOrk with nrpect to the tacard. I w i l l do my best to be moaningtul. Whether or not I can be helpSpeaking of r.coll.ctionr of mrtter8 in the m i d 0 or far dirunce, ln the late flttirr 88 I n c a U it, Mrr. AUcr Smith came by to talk to ID.to get my mcolhctiour ofthr activitler of to haw drom mo my ncolkctlotlr 8s to the pwronr who were haad men. I had than, and I aunt say continue to have a very vivid pictum of bir partlcipatinq fa the moe.tinqr of the Coma-. subwq\untly Mr8. Smith war abh to turn up data which pretty conclurlvely contrrwned my mawry of the awntr. With that anecdote 8s background, I think my cOnuibuUona to the setting of the MPL far plutonium wore falrly peripheral. You, of COW^^, have thm record -ea the Plutonium VOW that Uncle Bob Stone .dud with respect to ed RuroeU'o rad my work On Plutonium lnn)rctionr in Man & might bo wocth if you have not shady done no). In additLon took some plutonium aaUy in order, as I rec
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With respect to my porretrton of records from there ttmer, they are zero, with the ucception of one flhh w - v h g to do with the early activitier of the Chicago to-be Branch of the Fsderation of Atomic Scirntirtr. I took nothing with me of the records of my activities at the Metallurpical Lab. Et may be that A8ch.r Finkel could be Induced to mine the early U s . I rurpect that this would be a major project however . Turning to rnothu matter, I will be in far U m o r for the meeting of M a x Boone'r P i Meson Committee, the 30 of April and May 1. I pleasure of reeing you. hope that your and ow rchadule wffl be such that I will have the p.:..