Monday Nov. 22 1937

[year written later by LP]

[In top left hand corner of letter; possibly LP's handwriting:]

Barrett - reports - Miss Rooke[?] Roscoe[?]-

James Beckmann; minutes of meetings

Date of return.

My darling sweetheart:

Tonight Linus told me he hadn't mailed your letter today and that he always kept them until noon to mail. I was so angry. I wanted to murder the little devil now. I'm afraid you won't get a letter Wednesday and Thursday is Thanksgiving!

Two fine letters came this morning - One from Geneva and one written Friday! I feel very sad to think of you being so unhappy and lonely. I wish I'd stayed with you.

When you come home we must call on Mrs. Gates. She is really a little jealous. I called and asked her to luncheon on Dec. 1^st at the Athenaeum [?]. I've asked Mrs. Crellin and Miss Hutchispon also and shall ask a few others - Elizabeth Swift, Virginia Badger, etc. I'm doing this because I think you will like it. You know that Madeline Dickinson is a vicious awful person who is mildly insane, I think. I'm going to wait with her until you are on hand. How can Roscoe put up with her? She does annoy him, you can see that. Mrs. Gates said the Hudnuts were very taken with me.

I wish you would be happy! I thought you wanted to be fancy free

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and without a hanger on in the laboratory. I know how bored you get with me there even if you don't. [written in another hand, possibly LP's underneath this sentence is:] "I want my girl and shall learn to work without being disturbed - at home I guess."

It was very warm here today. I thought of several things I wanted to say to you today and now they have left me. Did you read in Time that Heine said he wanted his wife (a very bad one) to marry again so that he would have the satisfaction of knowing that one man at least regretted his death?

You Do you want me to subscribe to Life again?

We are all well. I'll be happy to see you again. Linda says she can't remember what you look like. You know that feeling. I suppose mental images of people fade the most rapidly. I know what you look like though. Why don't you get Papish to let you come the 9^th? If you are holding that discussion group then you would more than make up those two lectures. I have a good notion to write to Papish myself! That was a good story about Stock. He seems to have been pretty much of an ass, doesn't he - Oh! Madeline said people pronounced "harass" - haráss because a-s-s spells "ass" and that's all they can remember. I've never heard anyone say harass [with an accent over the last s] have you. She is an ass - a fat one.

Ava Helen

[no date but is in with other letters from Nov 1937 and mentions Thanksgiving. It is also on the same stationary.]

Darling sweetheart, I love you more than anything else in the world. I love, you darling. I've written this letter just now which seems awfully inadequate. You are so good and sweet. Mrs. Gates will be crazy about you as all females are. I hope you have a good Thanksgiving and are happy and that you aren't too lonely. I think you shouldn't make any decisions now when you are in the unhappy frame of mind. I think that there is certainly something to be said for Cornell. Peter is in a play tomorrow. I shall go. I'm sending this to the T. H.[Telluride House] so that you will get it on Thanksgiving any

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way. Wasn't it fun being at the Carpenters? She must have liked having you. I thought you didn't like dates in cereal.

Goodnight, sweet darling boy, you are the dearest creature in the world.

Love, kissed, hugs, uzzes, tongue touches.

Ava Helen

Monday Nov 22, 2 in the afternoon

Dearest love of Paddy's:

I am writing you a little note at his unconventional hour because I have a surprise for you, which I hope you will consider a nice one. Today Papish talked to me about how successful my lectures had been in interesting the students and in bringing the whole department together, and also about the possibility of my coming again (he says for a whole year, but I said no to that and also that I couldn't give a definite answer now anyway). So I thought that this would be a good time to raise the question of my leaving early next month. He said that he was sure that it could be arranged! I pointed out that I was holding an extra session on Wednesdays anyway. So Now I shall leave here probably on Thursday December 9 ^th , and get to my sweet little wife and darling little children on Sunday! I am happy.

Your own Linus

Monday, 1:15.

Dear love: I got up this morning at 1030, cut my toenails with my broken scissors from the Lab., which I had borrowed for the purpose, and went to the Lab., where I got two fine letters from you. I dictated letters to Mrs Beam - I haven't done that for about 10 days. - and then went to Telluride for lunch, and came back to the Lab, where I met Papish on the steps, with the results communicated in my last letter of this afternoon. Then (3 to 4) I prepared my talk on electron diffraction for the Physics Seminar, had tea with them (400 to 430), and gave the talk, which they seemed to enjoy - Professor Gibbs especially. Then I had dinner, and Telluride House meeting (till 745) and came to the Lab., where I have completely finished Chap. III. I shall now go strong on the net two chapters, since my lecture tomorrow morning is all that there is to worry me.

I'm glad that you got on well at the Gates dinner. Your "chemical bond" joke is a good one. I'll be happy when I get home, and I'll have lots of fun playing with you and the Itzies. I think that it's good for me to be away - it teaches me to appreciate our happiness at home, We'll have a high old time from now on. You are my own dear little wife.

Your own

Linus.

November 22, 1937

Dr. Harry Berman

Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrography

Harvard University

Cambridge Mass.

Dear Dr. Berman:

I think that there is no doubt about the correctness of our structure for chalcopyrite. We began our work thinking that, the crystal had the small unit reported by Burdick and Ellis, and were forced to accept a larger unit. Kôzu and Takané seem to have overlooked the reflections which require an increase in the size of the unit.

Yours truly,

Linus Pauling.

LP:HB