Monday-

Dear Peter:

Thank you very much for looking for Hayes’ book for me. I am glad to hear that a new edition is in the works; it is a bit out of date, but even so remains the text of choice.

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Papa came here to give a lecture a few weeks ago-a lecture as part of the University's Centennial celebration. I was stuck with the task of introducing him, a kind of thankless job, I'm afraid. I managed, but now my image about the campus is somewhat shifted. I have been struggling to gain my own identity, and introducing Pa before all my students doesn’t help any. I think that my relationship with both Ma and Pa is improving, though. Pa seems to me to be much more open to an adult, but emotional, interaction than he has ever been before; of course, it may be that I am getting better at handling such an interaction. I ring him up at the lab every week or two, and he usually talks a good deal. Mama, too, seems to be more open than she has been. I think (I really mean that I feel) that only recently do either of them view me as a reasonable human being, with ideas that warrant consideration, and so on. This feeling is one that I have gotten only in the past year or two. Clearly it was absent a couple of years ago when it might have helped me.

I’m very pleased that your x-ray work is going well. My work, too, has been going very well the past few months. I now, for the first time in my career, feel that I am working on something that is my own, and feel really in the forefront of research in my field, I have a paper in press, in the PNAS, the work for which has all been done in the past three months. In addition, experiments that we have underway are very promising, and will be very exciting, if they hold up. So maybe I can make it after all! I find that a degree of satisfaction with my work does wonders for my self-esteem. In turn, this new self-confidence does wonders for my general outlook on life, and for my relationships with people generally.

I got a promotion, to Assistant Professor, step III. It means $600. That helps, too.

By the way, I think that there is an opening for an x-ray man in Featherstone’s department at the medical school in San Francisco. That is Department of Pharmacology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. The man they had left. The medical school looks very nice; situated overlooking Golden Gate Park and the Golden Gate. Pharmacology is on something like the 11th floor, so the view is magnificent. Anyway, SF is Mecca, as far as I’m concerned. It would mean either living in a flat, or commuting from the suburbs.

Love-

Crellin

May 7, 1968

Dr. Linus Pauling, Jr.

3909 Round Top Drive

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Dear Linus:

I enclose a copy of a letter from Dr. Walter Alvarez. He mentions in the last sentence that you were very kind to him when he visited Hawaii a few years ago.

I was pleased that he should write to me about my paper. I remember seeing a column by him, a year or two ago, in which he mentioned Dr. Hoffer and his use of niacin in treating schizophrenia.

I also enclose a copy of the New York Times article. Dr. Seymour Kety has in the past been an opponent of megavitamin therapy. Only two years ago he was still expressing opposition to it. Perhaps he is changing his mind, now. I noticed that the National Institute of Mental Health has embarked on a rather large-scale project of testing it out.

Mama and I had a good time on our trip to the University of Massachusetts, which is in Amherst. We are going to Santa Barbara and Pasadena now (also a dinner by the Center in Los Angeles), and then on 23 May we are going to Putney, Vermont, where I am to give a commencement address at a college. We return on 27 May.

I have written to Anita, without getting a reply. I used the address "Aroda", 1222 Vesenaz, Geneva. If this is not the right address, please me know.

Also, let us know if you are planning to visit us this summer. We are going to the ranch about the middle of June, and expect to be there most of the time until the first of October.

Much love from,

Daddy

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