Dear Rabbi Lamm, I am sure you have not quite forgotten yet the nice little dinner party we had prior to your trip to India in London at the Kedassia Restaurant together with my brother-in-law, Rabbi S. D. Sassoon and Mr. L. Carmell. This is mainly to place myself in your memory. No doubt you have since heard that last Thursday the Israeli Chief Rabbinate decided that the "Bne Israel" and all other Jews are allowed to inter-marry now. This long awaited and most important decision will of course greatly help towards the consumation of the results of your visit to India. When I read your report of what you had been doing I found it a most lucid and constructive document.What I have written up to now was meant to bring our personal relationship up to date. The reason of my writing to you today is, However, as follows:-You most likely know that Dr. I. Epstein retired as Principal of Jews' College at the end of the summer term. As no full scale successor could be found in the Commonwealth, the Senior Lecturer, Dr. H. Zimmels has been appointed Director of Studies, whereas the Chief Rabbi has been appointed President of the College. A similar arrangement prevailed during the interregnum after the passing of Dr. Buechler. The Chief Rabbi is obviously very concerned in finding a person fully qualified to occupy the position of Principal in due course. As this matter has been in public discussion for the last few months I have actually been thinking of you ever since Dr. Epstein retirement and even mentioned your name to a member of the College Council, yet I had no chance of talking to the Chief Rabbi before last night when I attended a meeting over which he presided. When he granted me a couple of minutes and listened to me he told me how strange it was that he also had the very same idea after having read your grand article "The Unity Theme and its Implication for Moderns" an the last issue of "Tradition".Personally speaking I would add that there can be no better qualif…

Dear Rabbi Lamm, I am sure you have not quite forgotten yet the nice little dinner party we had prior to your trip to India in London at the Kedassia Restaurant together with my brother-in-law, Rabbi S. D. Sassoon, and Mr. v. Carnell. This is mainly to place myself in your memory. No doubt you have since heard that last Thursday the Israeli Chief Rabbinate decided that the “B’ne Israel” and all other Jews are allowed to inter-marry now. This long awaited and most important decision will of course greatly help towards the consummation of the academic work of your visit to India. When I read your report of what you had been doing I found it a most lucid and constructive document. What I have written up to now was meant to bring our personal relationship up to date. The reason of my writing to you today is, however, as follows: You most likely know that Dr. I. Epstein retired as Principal of Jews’ College at the end of the summer term. As no full scale successor could be found in the Commonwealth, the Senior Lecturer, Dr. E. Zimmels, has been appointed Director of Studies, whereas the Chief Rabbi’s plans are obviously centered on finding a permanent Principal. It is widely recognized that the retirement of Dr. Epstein created the necessity of appointing a person fully qualified to occupy such a position. The last few months have seen the subject debated in public discussion and the Chief Rabbi has not concealed that he has had his eye on you, Dr. Lamm. Especially after your latest publication in “Tradition” I attended one of your talks to the Council, and the couple of very able and talented speeches you gave created quite a stir. The Chief Rabbi has specifically asked me, as one who has the privilege of knowing you personally, to convey to you on his behalf that he would very much like to know whether you would be prepared to consider occupying the position of Principal of Jews’ College on being officially invited to do so. Personally speaking I would add that there…

Dear Colleague Professor Lamm, Shlita, I was delighted to hear last night from our revered Chief Rabbi that Anglo-Jewry may look forward to welcoming you in its midst next month D.V., as it is I had already decided some time ago to support you in the following matter. I am enclosing a copy of an essay on שמירת הנפש ומניעת מחלות which I have recently written at the request of the Rabbinate of the Federation of Synagogues, and which will be published in the forthcoming 70th Issue of their Journal Yalkut. Even before looking at the Bibliography at the end, you are sure to notice while reading that on a number of points I have based myself on your Hedge of Roses. Whoever has time to peruse the whole of the letter book obviously needs no further persuasion, but most young couples in this country prefer shorter pamphlets, such as the one which I am also enclosing. A few slightly different ones are distributed by other bodies but I am not aware that any one of them would attempt an improvement in the existing position. If you think so, I could have it reprinted as a pamphlet and add the necessary practical instructions. I have asked the printers of the above-mentioned Journal to keep the lead type of my essay intact until further notice, which however must not be delayed too long. If you rather think these matters well done, kindly do not hesitate to say so. On the other hand if you consider it worthwhile for easy distribution to reprint the complete essay as a booklet, I am just wondering where you might find it possible to ask, say, a Psychologist or a Sociologist and/or a Gynecologist amongst your colleagues at Yeshiva University to add their comments which I would want to include, since even when not valid in detail, I am sure they will be greatly helpful to contribute to our common aim of strengthening שמירת הנפש ומניעת מחלות. In this gain they will add no doubt too. I am greatly looking forward to hearing your kind reaction to all this.