Linus Pauling, Jr. M.D.

3909 Round Top Drive

Honolulu, Hawaii

12 May, 1963.

Dear Linus,

I was very pleased that you came to London and to see you; I hope you can stay longer next time, though I am so emotionally involved with you I do have trouble saying what I want to say and what I think I should say to you.

Will you please send me $334; that is £115 - $322 (at $2.80). I t seems to me reasonable that you and I split the cost of our outing to Brighton and I have included $12 for this (rail fare £2.16.0d., dinner £5, taxis and drinks £l.4.0d. = £9 = $25 x ½ = $12).

I am sorry you were disturbed about being made late to visit Joy. Joy herself has a fairly flexible attitude towards appointments; she never gets anywhere on time. I knew that she would not want you to leave a dinner party early in order to go see her, but rather finish what you are doing if you are enjoying it and then come see her. I am sorry you both became so tired by staying up so late. I talked with Joy a long time after putting you on that plane. She was really very tired.

I wish that you would come and spend some time in London perhaps working in some clinical way at some place like the Maudsley and try out my friends Lyseigic acid. I would like you to try it just as an experiment. I think it can do a great deal though probably not everything. I would suggest that you try it in Honolulu with the aid of a colleague, but this may be impossible and is rather dangerous. Perhaps you would prefer California. You and I are alike in a great many ways, though I think you are more frightened than I am probably mostly because the eldest suffers most. Anyway this LSD process is relatively painless, it requires very little of your or anyone else's time. I think it works by removing the fears involved in early emotional and practical problems. I think you and I have a great many emotional and practical problems; the emotional problems make us unable to deal with the practical problems to our own satisfaction.

Do you still own a Hi-Fi shop? If so can you get them to please keep an eye out for roe for a second-hand Sherwood S3000 III FM tuner in good condition? They should be available second-hand from people who are purchasing the new stereo multiplex tuners. It will be a long time before stereo broadcasting begins here in a real way and then it will be done with typical British compromise involving sending one signal by donkey. Actually the S-3000 III has provision for a multiplexer addition, and the older version without this provision would probably do me just as well. If you can get hold of it fairly cheaply, I could use an S-2200 FM/AM tuner as an AM and spare FM set. These are probably not available cheaply.

With love from,

University College London ● Gower Street WC1

Professor Linus Pauling

3500 Fairpoint Street

Pasadena 8,

California, U.S.A.

12th May, 1963.

Dear Pa,

Thank you for your letter, it still takes me a long time to do anything. You are quite right about my English: my usage is neither English English nor American English; it is just Wrong English.

I am sorry to hear that Mamma has been ill. I hope she is better now. What is it that she has had?

I think you should try not to make College Chemistry too difficult. You already have a pretty difficult book and I think you should express your educational standards in it, and use College Chemistry as a realistic means of educating the ignorant.

Would you like to write a High School Chemistry text in collaboration with some flunkey to do the hackwork? Or, more important, would you write a High School Chemistry text? My company, Modern Textbooks, Inc. (which consists of me) would like very much for you to write such a book. We would offer you $10,000 cash and all your expenses for the manuscript of a High School Chemistry text complete with drawings. We would like to have the manuscript by 1 October 1964 and we would prefer to enter into some form of contract with you. I hope that you can write this book and that we can come to some agreement.

Our summer plans are still uncertain. I have not yet heard from the National Institutes of Health about my research grant, though I had hoped to start on 1 May. I think I run a good chance, and wish they would come through. There are lots of other things to do. I am also a little disappointed with my friends in California. I am not really sure what we can accomplish there. I may not be able to get everything going during the summer in California. I hope, however, that we can come; I would like very much to spend sometime with you and to talk with you about many things.

Our house is coming along. The Electricians have almost finished. Sheila is typing the last of the specifications today. It is too bad that I have been so slow. It has been just part of my frightened and aimless wander through life. I hope to change this.

Linus Junior was here for a couple of days. I enjoyed very much seeing him. He, Julia, Jean Dollimore (you remember the Mathematician who works with me) and I went to Brighton for the day to look at a private collection of primitive art which Linus was interested in. We had a very good time, though Linus is not at his ease and I think does not enjoy life as much as he should or could. I am rather worried about him.

With love to you and Mamma,

Peter