[on stationery from "The Overland Route" LP's handwriting give a date of Nov 10 '37)

Wed. 10 AM

Dear little Popsie:

We are still enjoying beautiful sunshine and gorgeous mountain scenery in Western Nevada. It looks like home and is grand- typically desert country.

How are you? You are now three hours ahead of me and I suppose home had your lunch. I trust it was a good one.

Yesterday at Cheyenne I purchased an Oregon Journal just to

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see what it is like. It isn't much but had amusing litters to Dorothy Dix- one of which I sent you as it offers a different solution to the old problem. I even laughed and the man across from me looked startled..He got off at Salt Lake City at 1.10 AM saying that if he'd know this train arrived at that hour he wouldn't have come on it. Also he had a bad cold and cough but said he'd rather cough than take the awful medicine the

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doctor perscribed. Is that "per" or "pre"? It is "pre". Mrs Emmett is responsible with her "prehaps" Also this old gentleman borrowed my Esquire saying that most people only looked at the pictures but he found the stories intersting. This issue is bawdy sex through and through so I told him that I too, enjoyed the stories but thought the whole affair a little boring if you saw it too aften. I slept very well last night and feel in

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good spirits this morning. Isn't it strange that these people get on the train without knowing much about its peculiarities?

This train is quite a good one but stops all of the time. If you come this way get off at the 63^rd street station in Chicago- have breakfast with Thorfin & Phoebe and then take this train at 10.30. You have to change from the Illinois Central over to the C & NW station which is a long journey anyway. You

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remember where the Illinois Central Station is don't you? There by Michigan Avenue and that art Institute. The C+N [scribble ?] W is on Clayton and something I've forgotten just where.

Will they telephone me when my trunk arrives? I guess I would better telephone the station in Pasadena on Friday. I guess I'll stop now.

Your girl

A.H.P.

[on stationery from "The Overland Route" LP's note says Nov 10 '37]

Wednesday at 5

Darling Linus:

Here we are at Barstow. I've enjoyed seeing the Calico Mountains, Yermo, Daggett, etc.

This radio is simply screaming. I am eager to see everything again. I hope James meets me. I'll take my bus if he isn't there. I guess I'll get in bed with little

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Linda. She is a love all right. I saw that Ramsay McDonald died; that perhaps the Duchess will have a baby; that Mr Wright shot and killed Mrs Wright and Mr Kimmell. He thought he saw them embrace. All in Los Angeles Times! So I guess I am home again. The Duchess wants to have her baby at Johns Hopkins!!

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That's why they want to come to the U.S.!! Foo! Foo! Foo!

Good-bye sweet love. I'm sending Lola a telegram from San Bernardo that I'll arrive at ten. This train is half Challenger and half Pacific Limited. It is quite dirty- but still pleasant.

Love, love, love;

Ava Helen Pauling

11³⁵ PM Wednesday

Dearest little love: I got a nice letter from you today, mailed in Iowa, and I am glad that you are going along safely. I love you, little girl of Paddy's. With the four hour difference in time you must now be around Barstow; soon you will come into San Bernadino and then East Los Angles, where James and Charles will meet you. Kiss the little children for me. You should have on or two of my letters waiting for you.

I slept until 9 this morning, and then bathed and shaved and went to the Lab. My wrist has been hurting more than before, so I asked Papish to give me the name of a doctor. Instead he called the doctor on the phone, who said (without looking) for me to get it baked out at the hospital with a short-wave apparatus and bandaged. This was done. I was going to take Lynn's ford to go, but Papish took me down against my will, and then I had to walk back up the hill! I stopped at a joint for coffee and hotcakes, worked on the MS from 11 ³⁰ to 3 ⁰⁰ , dictated some letters, had tea & seminar (with Johnson from Ohio State as speaker), went to dinner at W.Str. as guest of Papish (really of the dep't [sic]) with Johnston & Briggs, returned to lab., & worked. I have written about 20 pages of MS and a review of Bragg's book today and refereed two papers for Lamb.

I am carrying my arm in a sling - it hurts when I use it, and I find myself using it if it is free. I think it will be well soon, though. If it isn't I'll go to a doctor - not Papish'es.

Today Papish asked if I thought it would be all right to ask a lecturer for a second time. I said no. He said most of the Europeans had wanted to come back, but that he thought that if a few lecturers were really successful he should be invited again. Then he asked if I would come again for a whole year - a few years from now. I said no, but that I might be able to come again for a shorter time.

I haven't eaten a meal at the House today. Now I am going home to bed.

Your Paddy, signing off

at 11 ⁴⁹ PM, E.S.T., with uzzes & loves.