August 15, 1940

Dr. Eugene H. Eyster

Department of Physics

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dear Eugene:

The plan which you mentioned in your letter seems satisfactory to me. While you are in New York with Rabi, you might look into his method of determining electric dipole moments, which he is applying to the alkali halide gas molecules, to see how generally applicable it is. I think that you should stay in New York long enough to get well acquainted with Rabi's work. Let me know what extra expenses you incur in this way, and I shall see that you are reimbursed.

I shall have your salary start on the first of October, which means that your first salary check will be available on October 31st. The Institute is just as suspicious in this way as the University of Michigan.

We have just had installed a fine set-up of International Business Machine with several hundred thousand punched cards, for making X-ray and electron diffraction calculations, and I think you might want to do some work in one of those fields in order to use the punched cards. I, myself, am very enthusiastic at present about immunology, and have started many experiments along lines indicated

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by my theory of the structure of antibodies which is described in a paper scheduled to appear in the September issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. I think it is possible that you might become interested in some aspect of this work.

With very best regards, and with the renewed expression of my pleasure that you are to be here again, I am,

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

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