Ava Helen Pauling

794 Hot Springs Road, Santa Barbara, California 93103

Dr. Crellin Pauling

3125 Maricopa

Riverside, California

Dear Crellie, Dear

We hope that you are well settled now and that you and the children are going along in your rigorous routine. I hope that the University is agreeable and that your quarters are what you like.

We are getting ready to leave for Europe and shall go around the 12th of October.

We are here at the ranch now but are going down to Santa Barbara on Thursday and shan't come back here until we get back from Europe.

I have several plants of Sasanqua camellias which I shall probably have to dispose of. Also, all of my orchids and a number of other plants. Sasanquas stand heat better than most other camellias and if you have some space on the left side of your house, perhaps you would like to have these. You remember how beautiful they are there in Pasadena.

I took out some of the bamboo but I have a good bit left. I do not know whether or not there is time for you to come to Santa Barbara before we leave, but it might be useful for you to do so and you could see if there are other things that you might want.

I forgot to ask you about the coffee table which you made for me and which you took to Palo Alto. I hope that you didn't dispose of it.

I enjoyed having little Cherry Blossom here and the time went very quickly. Even she said that it didn't seem as if the time had gone by.

We shall keep in touch with you and we are looking forward to seeing Peter again. We send you much love.

AHP:fkg

September 30, 1966

Dr. and Mrs. Hans Kaunitz

654 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10021

Dear Dr. and Mrs. Kaunitz:

We have thought of you many times the past months and remember with much pleasure your kindness to us when we were in New York. We have had a very busy summer and are now getting ready to go to Europe.

My husband broke his leg at the beginning of the summer so we have had to be relatively quiet.

Even though we have had a rather damp summer, I have managed to get rid of my cough and have felt very well.

You have probably read that Linus decided to appeal the decision of Judge Silverman. I do not know whether anything can be gained by doing this and certainly it is a great waste of time and money, but the principles involved are important.

The firm of Louis Nizer will manage the appeal for us.

We remember with great pleasure our times with you and I hope that we can see you again when we come to New York.

We continue to be grateful to you for all that you did for us.

Cordially yours,

Ava Helen Pauling

AHP:fkg

30 September 1966

Dear Linus,

It was good to be with you on that boat though I did not get to talk to you as much as I would like.

I am writing the chapter for the LP festschrift though it is harder than I thought. More and more data is becoming available and I am learning more about the problem which makes my simple theory less certain. I am doing more structures but they will certainly not be available by the time I have this done, which will be tomorrow I hope.

My trip after Athens was reasonably successful. I spent a week in Geneva didling around, three days in Zurich trying to get some artificial substituted muscarines from Peter Waser (with whom I stayed twice in the summer of 1950), a week in Vienna at this Biophysics meeting, which was not a terrible success, and several days in Copenhagen giving a lecture and seeing movies and walking about.

Julia had the upper house completely redecorated and cleaned by the time I got back. She must have worked hard. You seem to have a fan in Julia. She seems to think you were marvelous on that boat.

If you got me a half frame in Hong Kong, please send it to the parents who will be over on the 20th. They can bring it to me. They will be here four days according to the plan. It will be good to see then. I have not for two years. They have never seen our house done up.

Why do you not plan to spend a year in London. It is too cold and wet for you but rather fun. There is quite a lot of exciting stuff going on. I expect I shall be here. This cholinergic structure stuff is quite exciting and I want to get on with the large amount of work to be done. I do net yet know whether I shall get the grant to make my computer data collector. If I do it will take a year. If I do not, I shall have to get some money somewhere else to get a less powerful commercial instrument.

Can you please get me a copy of the instruction book of a Sherwood S-3000 II FM tuner? You sent me the tuner but the instruction book would help.

Much love,