27 October 1954

Mrs. Lucille Jenkins

Estacada

Oregon

Dear Lucille:

I have mislaid the letter that you sent me some time ago, and have just remembered that I should be writing to you.

First, let me say that we were sorry not to see you last June. I was scheduled to be in Toronto shortly after the time of the Commencement address at Reed, and I had a very short stay there. I had thought that you would probably come to the Commencement ceremony. We tried to telephone you a couple of times, and got no answer. We were too rushed to come out to Estacada.

Linda is in England now, with Peter. She is studying. Peter seems to be getting along well in his graduate work.

I have been terribly busy this summer, preparing a second edition of my book COLLEGE CHEMISTRY. I think that you have a copy of the first edition - it came out in 1950, and is the last book that I have written. I prepared a second edition of GENERAL CHEMISTRY a couple of years ago. The job of rewriting COLLEGE CHEMISTRY has turned out to be a big one, and I have been having trouble getting everything done this summer and fall.

We are leaving Pasadena, on a three-weeks' trip east, next Monday. I am to give a series of lectures in Princeton University, called the Vanuxem Lectures. This means that I shall have the job of preparing the manuscript of a book, corresponding to the lectures, to be published by Princeton University Press. I have enough to do, but I felt that it was wise to accept this invitation. I am going to give the Prather Lectures at Harvard next spring. No book required.

Crellin is in Reed now - have you seen him yet? He does not have a car.

I enclose my check for $50, which you may use to keep the cemetery lot cleaned up. Let me know when you have used this up.

Love from

P.S.

Love to the whole family.

LP