Mrs. Josephine Williams

2 Sept. 1968

Dear Mrs. Williams:

I submit the enclosed ms for publication in PNAS. I have read it and I approve it for publication.

Please send proofs, etc., to Dr. Itano, NIH.

Best regards,

Linus Pauling

Sat. Eve., Sept. 14

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Donohue

1801 John F. Kennedy Boulevard

Philadelphia, Pa. 19103

Dear Linus,

Just in case (very unlikely) you haven’t seen the enclosed I thought you’d be interested.

Thank you very much for your comments on my Faurier-DNA manuscript. I’ll send you version II as soon as it comes back from the typist.

Largely because of the P.S. on your letter I am now spending every available free moment on my elements book. As soon as it is finished I’ll send you a Xerox.

Now that the dust has settled after the publication of J.D. Watson’s book, may I remind you of when I sought some advice from you, in your Church office at Caltech some years back? I realize now that what I needed was really psychiatric advice – at that time there were only three people in the world who knew how it really happened, J.D.W., F.H.C.C., & me, and now everyone knows, except that F.H.C.C. has probably forgotten.

But I shouldn’t bother you with my problems.

Things here at Penn are coming along very well – I’m very pleased at having moved.

Sincerely,

Jerry

Saturday 14 September 1968

Dear Pete,

I'm glad you liked the present, and glad you could exchange it for something better. Looking at a book on model Railroading I have here, I think you are right that the double-door cars were used on the Pasadena-Sierra Madre run. The best-looking interurbans of all, at least in pictures in this book, are the Niles cars used by the Oregon Electric Car Co. They had wood sides, arched windows, some had observation platforms. I now have 6 locomotives, a couple of which I got 20 years ago, varying in cost from $8 for a simple brass 0-4-OT to $80 for a fully painted brass highly-detailed 2-8-0 (made by United). The most fun is to either build up completely or at least add detailing myself, but it is amazing to see the quality available in the ready-built models. For example, 20 years ago I bought an EMD E-7 A and B unit diesel. It has a zamac body casting which looks good, but needs the simple addition of handrails, horns, window glass, painting, numbering and naming, etc. Then some of the simpler brass locomotives come without air compressors, piping, brake shoes, air tanks—all of which are available to be soldered on, or screwed on, which requires drills, taps, dies. One of the difficulties in living here is having to wait so long for mail, since not much is stocked here, so if I break a #78 drill I have to wait for 3 weeks for another—or the letter saying the supplier is out of stock. Oh well...

Meanwhile I'm trying to get ready to leave, but I haven't made much concrete progress. It looks like it's getting later and later into the winter. I don't suppose it matters much, now that I've missed the fall weather, except that I want to be back here by the children's spring vacation in April. [...]

Best of luck on your book project. I don't envy you.

Much love

Linus

PS: You might tell Mom I'm thinking of naming my railroad the Salmon Creek Railroad - but it would be an expanded Salmon Creek with room for a town, branch line up the valley, lumbering line into the mountains, harbor, main line along the coast - more like Morro Bay. All this is in the fantasy stage [...]

September 17, 1968

President

Societe Meridionale pour 1'Expansion

de la Recherche Sclentifique

Faculte des Sciences Place E.

Bataillon Montpellier, France

Dear Sir:

I have asked that a check for the sum of $10,000 made out to account number 500-587S, Credit Lyonnais, Agence de Montpellier, be sent to you by The Fund for the Republic, Santa Barbara, California.

This sum of $10,000 is to be put at the disposal of Dr. Emile Zuckerkandl of the Department de Biochimie Macronoleculaire of the CMRS, Montpellier, who is collaborating with me in a program of research on the molecular basis of mental disease. Dr. Zuckerkandl will use the money for this purpose during the coming year or two.

I shall be grateful to you for administering this research fund for Dr. Zuckerkandl and me.

Sincerely,

Linus Pauling

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cc: Miss Brooks

The Fund for the Republic

September 19, 1968

Mrs. Lucile P. Jenkins

Rt. #2, Box 697 Estacada,

Oregon 97023

Dear Lucile:

I have just thought of something, as I have a number of times before, although I did not take any action about it.

There is one thing that I should like to have. We have here at the ranch a number of Indian relics that were found by the man from whom we bought the place. I remember another one, which I found when I was a boy. I found it at the bottom of the creek at Oswego, and I think that Mama kept it in the old tool chest that belonged to Granddad.

It was a pestle, used in grinding grain. It was nicely shaped, about nine inches long, and I think over two inches in diameter at the bottom end, tapering to about one inch, but with a sort of bulge at the bottom end.

Would you be good enough to send it to me, by parcel post, if it is still around? I hope that it has not been thrown away.

I have been hard at work all summer, preparing a new edition of one of my books. Peter came over from London for a month, to help me out, and Crellin and Linda and their families both visited us.

Much love from,

Linus

September 30, 1968

Dr. Felix Chayes

The Geophysical Laboratory

Washington, D. C. 20008

Dear Dr. Chayes:

Thanks very much for your letter. I know that difficult situations arise, and, although I have not thought about the possibility that the decreased government allotments for science would lead to cancelling the symposium, I recognize that this decreased support will have many such consequences.

September 30, 1968

Professor Peter Pauling

Chemistry Department

University College London

Gower St. WC1 London,

England

Dear Peter:

Here is a letter that came to La Jolla. I am sorry not to have gotten it to you earlier.

I drove down to La Jolla on Friday the 27th, in order to give my lecture at the Medical School on Saturday. Mama is scheduled to come in a day or two. She has said that she is going to drive the MG down, but I judge that there is a chance that she will come by air or bus. Kenneth and Joan have moved into the cabin.

I have been going over the chapters that you checked, and I want to thank you again for your help, which has saved me a tremendous amount of time. I still haven't finished chapters 15 and 26, and I still have the exercises to work on.

Much love from,

Daddy

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