February 19, 1968

Dr. Linus Pauling, Jr.

3909 Round Top Drive

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Dear Linus:

I enclose a statement that I prepared recently about the fluoridation of supplies of water. It is my memory that several weeks ago I received a letter from the Health Officer of Honolulu, asking me about this matter, and I am afraid that I have lost the letter without having answered it. I do not know his name. Would you be willing to telephone the Health Officer, trying to find out whether in fact it was he who wrote to me, and if he did, to send him a copy of my statement, with a note of apology for the delay?

I am enclosing three copies of the statement. You may want to pass them on to more than one person.

I also enclose a copy of my paper on Orthomolecular Psychiatry. After working on it from time to time for two years, I got it into what seems to me to be satisfactory form. It has been accepted for publication in Science, and should be out in a couple of months. I hope that you are not dissatisfied with it.

Mama and I look forward to seeing you. We hope that you will stop by. We are not going to have a round up this year. We sold many of our cattle last year, including the old bull, and have kept only one young bull, one steer, and five heifers. There will be no calves this year.

Much love from,

Daddy

LP:jj

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February 19, 1968

Dr. Linus Pauling, Jr.

3909 Round Top Drive

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Dear Linus:

Some months ago Dr. Humphrey Osmond sent me the accompanying statement about niacin treatment. He is director of the Bureau of Research in Naurology and Psychiatry of the State of New Jersey, Box 1000, Princeton, New Jersey.

I enclose also a copy of statement got out by Dr. A. Hoffer. Thinking that you might be interested in it as well as the Osmond statement.

Much love from,

Daddy

LP:jj

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February 19, 1968

Mr. Robert Bernhard

Assistant Editor

Scientific Research

330 West 42nd Street

New York, N. Y. 10036

Dear Mr. Bernhard:

In answer to your letter of 6 February, I may say that I have decided not to comment on Professor Watson's book.

Just for your benefit (not for publication) I shall comment on your letter. In your letter you say "...Watson used a virtual toy to see through the structure of DM." This gives a false impression. The structure of DNA was determined by Watson and Francis Crick. Francis Crick was at the time, and still is, one of the most able and experienced crystallographers in the macromolecule field. Also, the models were not from a stereo-model kit. They were special models that had been developed over a period of years in the Cambridge laboratories, just as the models that we used in Pasadena had been developed by us over a period of years. Also, the X-ray photographs obtained by Wilkins and his coworkers in London were extremely important. If I remember correctly, Watson says in his book that Wilkins decided not to let me see these X-ray photographs, but Watson had access to them.

Please do not quote me. These are just some suggestions to help you out.

Sincerely,

Linus Pauling

LP:jj

P. S. Watson does not point out very clearly that the discovery of the structure of DNA was based on the earlier discovery of the alpha helix.