Sunday morning at 1 ⁵⁰ AM.

Dearest Ava Helen:

I love you very much, and hope you are all right. I slept until 9 this morning and then had breakfast on Brattle St. (grapefruit juice + bacon sandwich + coffee) and had my hair cut and hat cleaned. Then I went to Tech and moved in my new office (by the way, Conant last night said he was sorry he had missed my lecture). I gave John Mullikan's paper + talked with him a little. Helen + he were afraid you'd miss the train here - I was too a little while we were in the taxi. Then I came home, stopping at Brattle St for lunch - lobster pattie. Then I had dinner at the other Brattle St place - sirloin steak, tomato juice cocktail. Then I sent your telegram to Chicago. I hope you got it. Copy is enclosed. Helen called just before 6 and asked me to dinner at 1 ³⁰ tomorrow. Isn't she good? Then I read the transcript till 9, and have worked on my paper until now, 2 AM., getting to p. 24. I think its a good paper, but I haven't been able to think of any more pictures to draw. The trunk arrived. It looks pretty good. I've packed a layer of books already. I sent off to EB Wilson Yost's + my manuscript for the Proc. Nat. Acad. this afternoon too. A letter from Dickinson came. It's enclosed. I send [sic] him a check for $95. I hope he + his family get along all right. I included a note for him to sign. I'm going to bed now. I love you more than anything else in the world. Give Linus and Peter kisses for me.

Your own

Linus

[Another note is included]:

Santa Fe Train # 3, Westbound, arr. Kansas City 8 ¹⁰ AM. Sect. 4, Car 354

I hope you had a good trip and a good time with Phoebe and Thorfin and that you caught this train. Doctor Noyes had a good time enjoyed getting his medal. I have written ten pages of a new paper on the chemical bond. I love you and Willie very much.

Linus

(Verifying my telegram of the 7^th inst.)

[Letterhead]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

BERKELEY

Sunday at 12 Midnight

Dearest Ava Helen:

I love you very much. Your telegram came this morning, and I was glad to know that you got along all right in Chicago and caught your train. You didn’t mention my telegram - I hope it reached you. I got up at 10 this morning, had breakfast at the Georgian on the Square, and read the Sunday paper, and at 1 ³⁰ went to the Slaters. Two young men from Rochester were there. We had a very nice chicken dinner. Bernice came in and said the rompers were ready. I’ll get them tomorrow and send them to you. I came home at 4 ³⁰ and worked on my paper, and then went for a walk to get up an appetite, walking towards town. The streets were full of negroes - there must be a large negro population. I reached Central square and decided to return on the subway. When it stopped, and I was ready to get out (nearly everyone else having done so), a woman asked if I would help her carry her niece out, a girl of about 10, who she said was “sick.” I did so, and tried to hold her horizontally, she kicking and squirming in the meantime, having, I presume, an epileptic seizure or something similar; but in a couple minutes, during

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which the subway guard and various bystanders gave assorted advice, she was able to stand and I departed hastily. I had supper at St Clair’s, bought and read for a while the American Mercury, and then worked on my paper, reaching page 28. It is nearly completed now, and I am getting sleepy.

Yesterday I bought a bottle of hexylresorcinol, which I use regularly as a mouthwash. My mouth seems to be better. I washed my hair + bathed this morning.

I shall be glad when I come home to you. I saw in the paper that Houston will be at Cornell this summer.

Loads of love from your

Linus

[An envelope is included]:

Postmark: Cambridge, Mass May 9 1932 11 AM

Addressed to: Mrs. Linus Pauling 1245 Arden Road Pasadena, California

Return address: L. Pauling [remainder is imprinted on envelope]: After 5 days return to

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,

CAMBRIDGE A, MASS.

AIR MAIL