March 1, 1954

Mr. R. V. Bartz, Executive Director

Office for Industrial Associates

Calfornia Institute of Technology

Pasadena 4, California

Dear Mr. Bartz:

Thank you for your letter of February 22, inviting me to a meeting on "The Structure of Metals and Alloys" at the California Institute on April 8 and 9. The program looks most interesting and I am sure that I would like very much to come and would enjoy the meeting.

The meeting unfortunately conflicts with scheduled meetings of the American Crystallographic Association here in Cambridge (April 4 through 9), which I had planned to attend. However, if it should prove to be otherwise possible for me to go to Pasadena I believe that I could miss part of the ACA meeting, particularly if I could get a night flight on the night of the 7th, so as to be in Pasadena the 8th and 9th. However, I do not see how it will be possible for me to attend the Pasadena meetings at all unless some way is found for my transportation expenses to be covered, for I have no other business that would take me to Pasadena at that time.

Sincerely yours,

David P. Shoemaker

cc: Professor Linus Pauling

[Handwritten note from David Shoemaker]

Dear Dr. Pauling,

Thanks for your letter. I am feeling well these days - no detectable after-effects from my September illness.

What's this I hear about your planning a trip around the world?

Dave