[postmarked May 16 1932 7PM Boston, Mass V]

[addressee]

Mrs Linus Pauling

1245 Arden Rd.

Pasadena, Calif.

[return address]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge A, Mass.

[on stationery from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics]

Monday at 2PM

Dearest sweetheart:

I adore you, darling, and hope that you sleep better now. You must remember that Paddy loves you more than anything in the world. You are such a sweet little girl. I wish I had a more recent picture of you. Won't you have one taken this summer for me? My time is all taken up now until I start home, so I won't be so lonesome as I was at Berkeley. I think Linus's letter came this morning. I'm glad to see it. Two letters from you (written on the train) came while I was away. I got them yesterday. Another, from Pasadena, came this morning.

Yesterday I came back from New Haven with Joe Boyce & two bridesmaids (young things of about 23), taking about 6 hours for the 160 mile trip. The country was very beautiful, spring being at its height. I bathed last night & read Grand Hotel till 1:30, then got up at 9, and came to Tech, for a conference with I. Langmuir, who had flown over from Schenectady, about a theory of his. We all had lunch together, and now I have some time to write.

I hope your troubles with Linus and Peter aren't two [sic] serious. I'll be home soon to help you. I'll be glad to see Liny and Peter again, and I'll hold you close and love you very much, and snuggle around you so that you'll go right to sleep and be happy.

My room at the Club is all right. I haven't any date tonight, and hope to get some work done. My paper is typed (it cost me $4.40 to have it typed, you see there are advantages to Pasadena!) And tonight I'll write in the formulas & get it ready for Lamb.

I'm going to read Franklin's manuscript now and send it to him. I got a letter from Schmidt in answer to mine. He said they would try to return to Pasadena.

I love you very much. You are the best little wife in the world. I couldn't have come East alone. It was lots of fun to be with you. I'm going to work hard back home during the next two years, and see what progress can be made in molecular structure.

Your own

Paddy

Monday at 10 PM. Club.

My sweet little wife:

A beautiful letter was awaiting me at the club this afternoon. I'm sorry you don't sleep well. I stay up very late, too, but then I go to sleep until morning. I'm glad you are getting along well with Linus and Peter. They are such fine little fellows. I'm glad to [sic] that you like me so much and that I like you and that we were married and had Liny and Peter.

I talked with Langmuir this morning. He is very interesting, especially because of his enthusiasm. We all had luncheon together. Then I came home and got your letter. Then I bought some books to read, and some shaving soap. I seem to need some light reading for amusement. Before & since dinner I read a book called "The Substitute Wife", about a girl (a virginous one) who substitutes for her souble, a no-account wife with many affairs, and who falls in love with her near-husband and has a hard time keeping him out of her bed. The real wife is injured and dies (automobile accident with lover). Since the husband will be disinherited if he is not living with his original wife on his 35th birthday, the girl finally decides to continue the substitution and not let the husband, who ia now deeply in love with her, know about it; and the book ends as he climbs in bed with her. If he doesn't harm something, he has either been very neglectful of the original wife, or the virgin is different from others I have known (or perhaps I shouldn't use the plural).

After dinner Joe Boyce took me for a little ride, to cool off. It was 93° today, and humid too.

Joe Boyce said yesterday that he like Roscoe, but he couldn't stand Madeleine. His cousin lives near them, on California corner.

I have just finished writing equations in my paper. Tomorrow I'll take it over to Lamb.

I love you, darling girl. I hope little Willie doesn't bother you, and that you aren't very lonesome for Paddy. I'll be happy to be back with you. It won't be long now. I love you, dearest & most beautiful little rascal. ...

Your own adoring

Linus