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Letter from Linus Pauling to Eddie Hughes. May 2, 1952.
Pauling writes to apologize for his inability to travel to the Royal Society proteins meeting and to express his curiosity as to how the meeting played out.

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May 2, 1952

Dr. E. W. Hughes

Chemistry Department

The University

Leeds 2, England

Dear Eddie:

I am sorry that the decision about my passport was made at such a late date as to make it difficult for me to keep you informed about our arrival or non-arrival.

I trust that everything went well at the meeting. I felt rather discouraged yesterday, to think that such an interesting discussion was going on only six thousand miles away, that I might have been participating in if someone had made a different decision.

I enclose a copy of a statement that I prepared for the press, a copy of my letter to President Truman, and a copy of the statement I made under oath last year, so that you will be better able to answer questions, if they are put to you.

I hope that you will write to me about the conference on proteins. It will be six weeks before Dr. Corey gets back here, and I am afraid that my curiosity needs to be satisfied before then.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W

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