October 7, 1936
Professor H. T. Clarke
630 West 163th Street
New York, New York
Dear Professor Clarke:
I am sorry to have to write you that in consequence of the death of Professor Noyes the plans of the department regarding development of organic chemistry have been dropped, I hope temporarily. I shall send this information to Gurin. I had rather surmised that Gurin had made other plans for the coming year inasmuch as he did not stop to see us in Pasadena this summer as he had planned to do when I saw him in Chicago in the spring. I was very well impressed by Gurin's apparent originality and industry.
With best regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling
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