Jan 7, 1941
Dear Pauling,
I had a letter from Jordan, from Nov. 13. He is in the army since the beginning of
the war, and his forwarding address is: c/o Pastor Finke, Rolandstrasse 9, Bremen.
Probably he is now busy quenching? the fires. He would like to have a reprint of your
antibody paper. Apparently he cannot send any of his papers, because there seems to
be a prohibition on sending printed matter out of Germany. Apparently he does not
feel very much [?] by our note in Science, because he says he does not believe in
the resonance idea very much any how
You showed no reaction to the Frank-Kamenetzky proposal of synthesis by resonance
between the reaction product and an intermediate activated state. I was X-mas in Princeton
and talked it over with Wigner who saw no serious objection to it. One could probably
test it by experiment without to much difficulty.
April 4 and 5 we are going to have a meeting here of the Southeastern Phycists, nothing
to brag about. But we are trying to pep it up by a symposium on molecular structure,
with Miss Sponer, Teller, H. H. Nieben, Brockway And Placzek. If an Eastern trip of
yours would coincide with this date you would be most enthusiastically welcome to
participate.
With best regards,
Max
