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0 August 5, 1976 Stanley B. Gross, Ph.D. 9036 Jeffrey Road Great Falls;, Virginia 22066 > Dear Stan: It was a very considerable shock to me to receive your letter to me of July 30, 1976, together with copies of letters to various other persons and institutions, and especially your letter to my attorney, Jerry Cowan, which should be destroyed. I realized in perusing these letters that you were about to embark upon a course of action in relation to me and my affairs, for which you considered, mistakenly, that you had my approval. I realized that I had given you some reason for so concluding, (while I had been thinking only of your present task), by m$r quietness on these matters, to assume that I approved, in principle, of your position. I then realized that I should put a stop at once to your activities on my behalf. In doing this I must be blunt. I may sound more than blunt, and actually unfriendly to your attitude and proposals. I do not wish to be harsh in any way. The fact is that I firmly disapprove of yc-ar doing more than your present task at this time. I cannot help it if your time and effort are not fully occupied with this task. If you can find a suitable relationship to one of the universities which you'have mentioned so as to make proper use of your time, I shall be glad, but I have nothing to do with this aspect of your situation, not that I am disinterested. On the contrary, I wish you every success, but I Can do nothing about it. That is why I sent you a check on your statement of your needs for which I am partially Involved. A 3 for the biography of me and as to the disposition of my papers of one type or another, I do not and cannot give you my authorization. Further more, I do not approve of your bringing Jerry Cowan into these matters. I want him to have only my personal requests of him for services to me and/or Mrs. Kehoe to consider, and I have so informed him. If, therefore, you ask and receive legal services from him it is not, definitely not, on my authorization. In fact, I am not open to any other committment to you, now, with the exception of your present task to prepare my experimental data for publication. When that has been accomplished, we 0000435 Dr. Stanley B. Gross -2- August 5, 1976 shall see what else might reasonably and competently be done. In other words, I require evidence of the desirability of my so doing. I these statements to you give you a shock, please stop and consider my situation. I have no evidence of your competence to finish a specific job for which you are fitted by education and experience. We have talked at length, but where are we? Why should I (even if no one else should be interested or available) approve of your working on my biography? You are a scientist, not a literary man. You are a thinker, not a writer. Biography is art exceedingly difficult job for which you have neither aptitude nor experience. My life has not been obviously important enough to make the literary grade unless it is described imaginatively and well. My scientific accomplishments are, I believe, all that I can lay claim to as in any way unusual. These can best be presented in a paper (or papers or perhaps a book) in which evidence is the prime factor. My attitudes of mind in Relation to Society and Medicine may be of some significance if they are made so in future developments, but these matters remain to be manifested, and if, in the process, my contributions are not visualised, vhftt is the difference? It is the future that counts, not the means by which it comes about. I hope you will not think of me with sorrow or anger, because of what I've said and my manner of saying it. My position of confidence in your scientific competence is Unchanged, and my willingness to partici pate in your further development is no less freely given. However, I am in disapproval of you riding off in all directions at once without having built the foundation on which all sound achievement is based. Please extend my cordial greetings to your wife and believe me your good friend, R&K:js Robert A. Kehoe, M.D. XE 0000436