June 29, 1937
Dr. E. Bright Wilson, Jr.
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dear Bright:
I am sorry to not to be able to come to Rochester for your big occasion. Stitt, too, seems to think that he can't get away quite that early, but he may change his mind.
Helen and I thank you and Emily for your congratulations. The baby is getting along very well. At present he is the only child in the house, Peter and Linda being at Corona del Mar for a two weeks' vacation with Lola and Linus at Catalina with the Boy Scouts.
It is fine that you have two National Research Fellows to work with you next year, and I am sure that you will make much progress with your large group of research men.
I haven't any explanation for the low distance in formaldehyde. For several months I have been trying to get Brockway to photograph it, and he once promised to do so before leaving. Have Dieke and Kisty done heavy formaldehyde? The old formaldehyde C-O distance can be brought up to around 1.22 by varying the C-H distance suitably.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling
June
29, 1937
