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FACULTY CLUB

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

[Linus writes;]

Wed. 2 ³⁰

Dearest Ava Helen:

I was tickled pink to get your letter yesterday. Are you over being lonesome now? I'm having a hard time getting used to being away from my own darling girl. Yesterday I had dinner with the Olson's. They have a beautiful big house way up on the top of the hills - two stories, three baths, study, etc. Robert + Dr + Mr Stuart (from Königsberg) were there. Then I came home, read a little, and went to bed. This morning I prepared my lecture + then gave it. Everybody seemed much interested. I had lunch here at the club with La Mer, Gibson, and Kramers.

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Tolman is down here. Brode I haven't seem yet - he is staying at home on pins + needles to take his wife to the hospital when she's ready. I got a book from the library this afternoon - Freud's "Gesammelte Schriften" Vol. V, and bought a Pelican. Here's a story - William, the perfect butler, was pouring the champagne. He passed Mrs. Tidwinking [?] who said "You didn't fill my glass, William"; he said "But Madam, I thought you were president of the WCTU!" She said "Why no, I'm president of the Purity League". William answered "Oh, yes, I knew there was something you didn't do."

I'm going to use Hildebrand's office. I have a copy of Time. This morning I told GN that Jeff was a very smart boy, and turned over just in time. Have you heard that Fowler's wife is dead - I understand in child birth. I received a letter form Rodelursh [?] saying that the things I criticized in his chapter were due to T Jeff Webb.

Today Burge [?] gave me a letter (from

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him) about some formulas in our book + in Ruark + Urey; he has found R + U's are wrong. I asked him if it was necessary for me to reply by letter! Yesterday in his lecture Kramers said "--so-and-so obtained this result in a chemi - - - in an intuitive manner." Today I said "Bartlett carried out this work in a characteristically physi - that is, he has based a long mathematical discussion on some assumptions that probably are never realized in nature."

Everything is OK by me, except that I'm always restless because I want to come home to see you. Love to Linus + Jeff.

Your own paddy

Linus