[envelope post marked May 23, 1932 from Cambridge Mass.]

[addressed to:]

Mrs Linus Pauling

1245 Arden Rd

Pasadena, Calif.

Sunday evening, 7 ³⁰

Dearest sweetheart:

I love you with all my heart, and can hardly wait eight days more to see you. You are such a beautiful little darling, with such a cute young face, and such nice breasts, and such a nice tummy, and such a loving little uzzer, and such nice legs. I love every bit of you - your petters too, which I forgot to enumerate. I haven't yet decided how to uz you first when I come home next Monday. I guess I shall just have to try several ways. Will you be glad to see your Paddy? What would you like me to do to you first?

I gave my lecture yesterday morning, and everyone seemed much interested. Taylor gave me a check for $100. I had lunch with Edwin at the Graduate College. Karl Overhague arrived from New York a few minutes before I left. I visited Mrs Boyce, and then the Zener's. Mrs Zener is a rather cute little English girl. The baby is a very little thing, it seems to me. He isn't as handsome as our babies. Mrs Zener wore no stockings and a very short & thin dress. Perhaps this is her way of reacting to the feeling of freedom that foreigners get in America. They are sailing Tuesday for Bristol. At 4 I started for New York, arriving at Darrow's at 6. His mother is very tiny, weighing about 85 pounds, I think. She is of German descent, and is well-educated and cultured. She liked the pictures of you and the boys, and said that you looked very nice & very young. They live in an apartment at 105^th & Broadway. A man named McCall from the laboratory came in, & we went to dinner at a french restaurant. Then we returned, & Mrs Darrow left us to retire to her room to write, & we talked about physics till 10. I slept till 8, & then we had breakfast. Then Karl & I went to see the new bridge [with a drawing of a bridge] which we had

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seen from Grant's Tomb. We walked half way across it. It is surely an immense & marvelous structure, with its 600 foot towers and four big cables, each about 3 feet in diameter. We had a good view of the skyscrapers from there, too. Then we returned to the apartment & had a light lunch, and then Karl & I walked for an hour through the East Side, where there are tenements thickly settled by Jews, mainly foreign. The streets were crowded with them - men, women, and multitudes of children. Many were selling things - slices of watermelon & pineapple for 1, 2, 3, or 5 cents, coca cola, sausages, etc for 3 cents, candy & fruit exposed to all the dirt of the air, all sorts of wearing apparel, & miscellaneous articles. In one square there were hundreds of people buying & selling old clothes. There would be one man with two or three pairs of pants, one with an old suit, one with several pairs of shoes, one with one pair of shoes, all haggling with perspective buyers. It was a most interesting sight. Then I got on the train.

I was interested to note that Darrow owns a copy of Van der Velde, and also some French books with titles such as "A Month with Prostitutes", "The Adventures of Millie at School", etc. I wondered if his trips to Europe merited the first title.

I'm going to give my last lecture next Wednesday, so on Thursday I'll start home to you. I adore you, little darling, sweetest girl in the world. I'll kiss your sweet mouth a hundred times when I come home, and give you a kiss on each square inch of your lovely little body. You are the nicest girl in the whole world. Don't we have lots of fun together? We are always going to have lots of fun, and travel places together, and see new things & meet new people, & each night I'll give you an uz and then hold you close.

Your own

Linus