Tuesday evening, 6 PM

Dearest Love:

I adore you - and I'm glad that my trip is more than half over. I'll give you a good squeeze when I get home. Have you been getting along all right with the children, and not working too hard? I love you, sweetheart.

I went to lunch with Henry yesterday. He is writing to a former G. Fellow who is now a Major in the Air Corps Medical Service, doing aero-medical work at Randolph Field, Texas. I've forgotten his name. This might be fine for Linus - the contact with this good man. Alfred's man IAM seems to be a clever research man too, so that there are two chances for him to get some work

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of interest and value to him.

I saw Dr. Beard of Lederle + Mr. Bell, Pres. Of Am. Cyanamide, yesterday morning, and arranged to go to Lederle Labs today - at Pearl River, about 30 miles away, in New Jersey. They sent a big car for me at 8 :30 this morning, and another one brought me back this afternoon. I had a fine time, and got some good ideas about what to do next on our artificial antibodies.

I have just taken a bath, and am waiting now to have dinner with a young man who applied for a fellowship at Cal Tech. If he looks good we'll appoint him.

Yesterday afternoon I talked with Hanson of the Rock. Fn.[?] He asked what I thought

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about getting science going in the post-war period - should a big protein conference be held in Europe, with several people form each coutnry attending (expenses paid by R. Fn.)? I shall be interested to have you tell me your ideas about this.

I had (sic) supper with Alfred and Reba. Then a p.f.c. who plays the flute in “Winged Victory: came in for a lesson, and came home, and read a Gug. applicant's book until midnight (no good). Tonight I shall read another.

Love to CRELLIN and Linda and Peter, and to you, dearest girl, from

Paddy