August 23, 1937

Dr. Harold P. Klug

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dear Harold:

I am glad that you and Mrs. Klug are having a good time this summer at the lake. My wife and I have stuck pretty close to home except for her sojourn in the hospital. I don't remember whether I had told you about our new little boy, now two and a half months old. He is named Edward Crellin Pauling after Mr. Crellin, the donor of our now laboratory. The laboratory itself is rapidly approaching completion, the pouring of concrete for the pent house on the roof being under way at present.

I am afraid that it may not be possible for me to stop off at Minneapolis on the way to or from Cornell. I am staying in Pasadena until the last moment in order that I can do my part to get the work of the fall term started, and I think that I shall probably have to return as rapidly as possible in February too. I have promised Glocker that I would stop at Minnesota some tine, and if it is possible to work the stop in on this trip, I shall do so.

I have started to make a collection of photographs of the men who have worked in the laboratory, and I would be very glad to have one of you.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling.

LP:mrl