2 October 1968

Dear Pete

Plans are firming up and I think we will be arriving in London on about the 5th of November, planning to stay until the end of January or so. Unless you have a better idea, I will make a reservation to stay at a hotel for a week or so until we can find a flat. Do you have any ideas which one we should choose?

Is there anything else I can do from here? I expect it is as hard to get tickets to things in London as in New York, but I don't know what I can do about it.

Also, what is your exact address? If you don't mind, I would like to have letters sent to me c/o you, so as to avoid complicating life at home more than it is already.

I'm really looking forward to the trip, and everything here seems to be working out satisfactorily so I can get away. Dogs, house, practice, job are taken care of pretty much.

It will be interesting to live in cold weather again. I'm dragging out my old clothes from Boston days, now pretty much out of style of course, and the long underwear I bought in Oslo [...]

I've been continuing the model-making activity, now involved with soldering brass bits together. Sort of fun to learn all these processes, and it is different from the silver work I've done. I may continue some of this in London, as I gather the English are hot for scratch-building. Unfortunately the English favorite scale uses US HO gage track but not US HO scale, which is 3.5mm/ft or 1:87 proportion.

I haven't sent that book on to Orel yet, but I will.

All best wishes. Did you get through the California stay ok?

Much love,

Linus

October 8, 1968

Dr. Peter J. Pauling

Chemistry Department

University College London

Gower Street WC1 London,

England

Dear Peter:

I hope that you will be able to get a new electron micrograph of a crystal of a virus or other high-molecular-weight material, to replace the one that I have been using.

There is no great rush, but I should like to have it within a couple of months, so that I can change the page in the text where there is reference to.

Much love from,

Daddy

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10 October, 1968

Dear Peter,

I hope you are well settled in again and that you are comfortable and in good spirits.

We are here in our little house again. The Daddy drove down on the 26th of Sept and I flew down the 2nd of October. Thus I am without my little car and I feel like little Linus without his blanket!

Yesterday we went to look at Jeeps and Toyota Land Cruisers. We’ve been tempted by the Toyota which is certainly a powerful, sturdy looking vehicle, four wheel drive and I think could and would go anywhere and pull anything. Is it too heavy for me to heist around? That is the only problem. Also $3000 smackers which seems quite a sum of money. But it is a real utility wagon – also we’ll go 85 miles per on the highway.

I sent the book I bought for you to Crellie. Maybe it will give him some hints. He seems chipper over the telephone. I haven’t seen him.

I think Joan and Kenneth are going to be quite good - a great improvement over what we have had anyway.

Love to you, Mama

I haven’t seen Linda either but she seems better, too. I think we’ll take both little dogs to the ranch! I wish we’d been able to tear down Phil's house while you were there.

AP

October 11, 1968

Dr. Andrew Speare

4 Forest Place Massena,

N. Y. 13662

Dear Dr. Speare:

Thanks for your note and for your article on crime and the criminal.

I agree that criminal behavior is usually the result of a diseased or injured brain. You may have noticed the discussion in Nature and elsewhere during the last year or two of the large number of people in penal institutions who have an extra y chromosome.

I am sending a copy of my paper to you under separate cover.

Sincerely,

Linus Pauling

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October 14, 1968

Mrs. John Taylor

1229 Via Barranca

La Jolla, Calif. 92037

Dear Carrie:

I am pleased that you are willing to participate in our research program on the biochemistry of ascorbic acid.

There is a report in the literature indicating that under some conditions a new equilibrium with respect to ascorbic acid is reached only after more than 120 days. I do not know whether this applies to the change in physiological state resulting from stopping the smoking of cigarettes.

Would you call Mrs. Sue Oxley, Room 4409, Bonner Hall, telephone 453-2000, extension 2160, and find out at what time she would want you to come to receive the ascorbic acid tablet and provide the urine samples? She will want to know your body weight first, so that she can prepare the sample of the proper size.

We should like to make a test once a week, for two or three weeks, while you are continuing to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day, and are leading your usual life, with respect to food and vitamin intake. Then you should stop smoking completely, keeping your intake of food and vitamins the same as before. The ascorbic acid tests would then be resumed, one per week, and continued until it is clear that a steady state has been reached. At the present time I think that it might take about two months to reach the steady state.

I am eager to have these experimental results, and I am grateful to you for being willing to cooperate.

Sincerely,

Linus

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P. S. I am asking my secretary to sign this letter, in order that you will receive it without delay.

October 24, 1968

Mrs. Marion S. Heath

36 Tarlington Road

Coundon, Coventry

Warwicks

U.K.

Dear Mrs. Heath:

I have read with interest your letter of 17 October, in which you discuss a number of factors that seem to bear on mental disease as well as cancer, and ask about the possibility of our carrying on research along some of these lines.

Our situation is that we are not able to expand our research activities, and accordingly cannot carry on work of the sort suggested. We have some studies under way of metabolism of vitamins, not, however, including vitamin D. I think that our work is progressing well, but it requires all of our energy and facilities.

Sincerely,

Linus Pauling

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