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.,t ' i, > •i s.~ .~ TH E TO BACCO 1 N STITUTE. I N C. 1776 K STREET, NORTHWEST WASHINGTON, D. C. 20006 296-6434 HORACE R.KORNEGAY '.CSIcEMS & O1GYCTD1 C 0 P IT March 10, 1971 Thomas H. Eliot, Chancellor William H. Danforth, M.D., Vice Chancellor.for Medical Affairs Kenton M. King, M.D., Dean, School of Medicine Washington University St. Louis, Missouri 63110 Gentlemen: It is my privilege to deliver to you the enclosed communica- tion, which informs you that seven manufacturers of cigarettes and an organization of tobacco growers have agreed to provide $2 million to the University to expand significantly its re- search program of isolation and identification of specific cancer antigens. The companies, members of The Tobacco Institute, are R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corpora- tion, Philip Morris Incorporated, Lorillard, a Division of •Loew's Theatres, Inc., Liggett & Myers, Inc., Larus & Brother Company, Inc., and United States Tobacco Company. Tobacco Associates joins them in this agreement. This is the largest research grant to any single institution in the 17-year history of support from tobacco sources for independent, objective, biological research, and the latest in a long series of such commitments which are approaching the $40 million level. In reaching their very favorable decision with respect to your research proposal, I know that those who are participating CONFIDENTIAL: MINNESOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION MN 0100680

March 10, 1971 C O P Y Page - 2 - are very much aware of the rapidly materializing national goal to conquer cancer. They are mindful of the current recommendations both of the President and leaders in Con- gress with respect to this, and at the same time they appreciate that government funding of research, though likely to increase, will remain subject to practical limitations. They are further impressed that the scientific team being assembled at Washington University is unsurpassed in its capabilities to contribute to what these scientists them- selves foresee for the immediate future as a potentially evolving "era of immunology of cancer." In this situation the University's efforts are deserving of the widest possible support. It will have the good wishes of people everywhere for its further contributions to the well-being of man. Sincerely, Horace R. Kornegay CONFIDENTIAL: MINNESOTA TOBACCO LITIGATION TIMN 0100681