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~ A:1G 18 1971. My warmest personal regards andihighest respect always, ~ ARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINS DIVISION OF RESPIRATORY DISEASES . 1, GARY L. HUBER, M.D., CHIEF William W. Shinn, Esquire Shook, Hardy & Bacon Mercantile Bank Tower 1101 Walnut Kansas City, Missouri 4106 Dear Bill, of this past year. The budget that we had initially developed for the supplementary funds is enclosed. In that this program was budgeted and planned~ for the just now completed.academic year, and in that we had been given assurances late last year by r-1r. Hardy that the funds would be available, we undertook this work as scheduled and~have now completed it. In that the supplementary funding did not arrive, because of a variety of delays, until.' almost a full year later, it would be easiest, from the standpoint of the Harvard Business Office, to transfer this amount of money directly into the now overexpended accounts. With this communication I assure you that the research for which these funds were intended has been undertaken and successfully completed. If you need any additional assurances or confir- mations, either from myself or from Dr. First, please do not hesitate to let me know. I would like your written permission, which I can transmit on to Harvard Medical School, to allow the transfer of $147,000 from the Harvard University Account entitled "Tobacco Chemistry Program" and identified as 60-092-4716-2 to the now existing Tobacco and Health Research Program account at Harvard incorporating the initial agreement funding from September 1, 1972 to August 30, 1977, and'identified as account number 60-092-9006-2. If we cannot make this transfer en bloc, it will require our going back over all of the run sheets and purchase orders for the past year and picking out each individual voucher, including the weekly salaries of the employed technical help. That is a significant bookkeeping task, and I hope you will simply accept my recommendation that we transfer these monies, as indicated above. Please advise me as to whether or not.you will accept this recommendation. BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL August 10, 1977 Mailing Address: BET.H119RAEL HOSPITAL . 330 BROOKLINE AVENUE YOlTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02210 (617) 736-2391 Although we have discussed this on several occasions by telephone, as well as with Mr. Lee Stanford of your group, I do not think I have formally requested that we be given permission to transfer en bloc the budgetary supplementary funding that was awarded for the tobacco chemistry research If there are any questions that I can answer about this, please do not hesitate to'call' me directly. Gary L. Huber, M.D., Chief Division of Respiratory Diseases GLH/ncb Encl.