Sunday - 28^th 10.15

[added later in LP's handwriting: 1937]

[added later in AHP's handwriting: Pasadena peeling apple.]

Darling Paddy:

Today Dr. Buchman called and brought a box of salted nuts to the children. He asked to see Crellie and was really very moved. I feel a little uncomfortable around him - he is so adoring. Coryell came and took us all riding. He started up a very steep dirt road along the crest of a hill and frightened Linda and Peter badly. I got out with them and as the wheels spun badly I told Charles he would better not go to the top. Linus got in the car with the baby and Peter screamed and said "Don't take my baby - he'll be hurt, etc." I was sorry to have frightened them - there really was no danger, but I soothed them an d reassured them Little Patty Lou or rather large Patty Lou was down. She calls Charles - Charles but calls her stepfather "Daddy" and says he name is Patricia Bowler. I feel sorry for Coryell and I'm glad he is getting married. How funny life is. Sometimes I feel that I'm near to the fundamental hypothesis of life but it always vanishes before really appearing. Oddly enough, I always think again of these queer thoughts which I had under the anesthetic. I'm sure now, that I thought then that life was at last revealed.

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Well, I mustn't get moody! I think of many things to tell my love when I'm lying in bed but then forget them.

The boys haven't returned with the car. I rather expected them tonight. The weather has been wonderful.

I talked with Lacey and told him you would leave there the 16^th. I said you were on leave of absence too! He said you were never free from a job like yours. Howard Lucas has so much to do he doesn't want to go east.

I was very busy today so didn't read any of your letters. I hope you're not back there working away. Two weeks more and you'll be home. Coryell borrowed our double sleeping bag and mattress. Where is our blanket - the camel hair one. I thought it was in the sleeping bag, but it isn't.

Have you been reading about Elysian Park sliding down? I suppose so - the papers are full of it.

You are a sweet sweet Baker Lecturer and I love you - the non-resident part is what I don't like - Say - I counted those meaningful scrawls you made

at the end of your letter. Love and kisses

Ava Helen

[enclosure is a letter to LP about Neils Bohr]

Universitetets Institut BLEGDAMSVEJ 15, KØBENHAVNØ.

for

Teoretisk Fysik DEN......NOVEMBER, 8......198...7...

Professor Dr. Linus Pauling

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, Ca. U.S.A.

In the spring of 1938 there will have passed 25 Years [sic] since the publication of Prof. Bohr's first works on atomic theory in the Philosophical Magazine. On this occasion the present collaborators of this Institute have thought that they might please Prof. Bohr by presenting to him a collection of pictures of all the former collaborators of the Institute. As this collection should be as complete as possible, you would oblige us in sending us your photo with your signature on it as soon as possible.

Thanking you for any inconvenience

Yours sincerely

J.C.Jaebrca [?] [illegible] Rasmussen

[above are signatures]

[in LP's handwriting]

I sent the one you like.

Paddy

[LP's letter on lined paper]

Saturday, 2 ²⁰ PM.

My dearest (and only) little love:

A nice letter came from you this morning. I'm anxious to hear what you think of coming back with me in January. I'm sorry that you are worried about Linus. I have just driven to the station with Pace to get a Sante Fe time-table. I shall come home on the Navajo, reaching Pasadena at 8 ⁴⁵ Sunday night (Sante Fe Station). This is a fine time to be getting home - we'll have to go to bed soon. I'm saving up a big present (really several) to give to you.

2 ⁴⁵ AM

Just think, 12 hours & 25 minutes have gone by! I got up at 11 this morning. Came to Lab, corrected proof, went to lunch, went to station with Pace, wrote a bit on the book, and took the proof to mail at the corner toward Lynn's - where the stoplight is. Then I had dinner and came to the Lab, where I have now finished Chapter V! Not a very long one - 65 MS pages, 22 written today. Tomorrow I shall start on VI. You can see that I lead a very uneventful life. Hoard dropped in at 12 ³⁰ , on his way home from a poker party. He had won 90¢ in 4 ½ hours. I said that that was too low pay. Rhodes lost $5.50.

I'm sorry that you are menstruating and feel bad. We should have removed your menstruator [sic]-no, I wouldn't have liked that. I hope you feel better soon. I'll be with you before very long. I adore you.

My wrist is all right. Give my regards to Mr. Crellin if you see him and kiss all our Itzies for me.

I like your new stamp. I'm returning it.

Sunday afternoon, 2 ⁴⁵ .

I kept your letter (this, I mean) because it isn't collected until; 4. I slept till 12, bathed, had dinner at 1 ¹⁵ , read the Reader's Digest, and am getting ready now to go to the Lab. I haven't told you about the weather for some time. The snow evaporated in about 2 days, and it has been rather nice for four or five days. Today is warm & pleasant. It rained hard last night (early this morning) as I walked home.

I love you, little sweet girl of Paddy's. Loads of loves and uzzes from your own

Linus

[letter written on lined paper]

Sunday, 11 ⁴⁰ PM.

Dearest sweet little wife:

I am getting pretty lonesome for you and tired of this life, and I wish that we were together, either here or in Pasadena. I'm anxious to find out what you think of coming back with me in January. I adore you, little love, and I hope that you aren't as lonesome as I am. You have the little Itzies to keep you company, but on the other hand you don't have a manuscript to help the time to pass by.

We had a good dinner today - nice tenderloin steaks and mashed potatoes. About 12 of the boys are here - the others will be back tonight or tomorrow.

I told you that I got up at 12 noon today. At 3 I came to the Lab and wrote an extra section of 10 pages for Chap. V, finishing it; and tonight I have written the first 10 of Chap. VI. I am tired, and am going to stop, even though it is just approaching midnight, which is early for me. After supper at the Tel. House I waited for half an hour because it was raining hard, but then it stopped. The wind blows very hard through the trees outside of my window, both here and at the House.

Jack has been away since Wed., and so have all the boys (Hamp & Sp. With Chambers at his parents in Reading).

I am wondering whether to write some more or go home and read Christopher Morley's new book and then go to bed. Two weeks from now (even with the 3 hours difference) I'll be with you, and there won't be any question in my mind as to what to do. Time passes awfully slowly - still, its only eleven days now until I start home!

How is our Tyl? I like the picture of us by the front door. You look perfectly wonderful. The baby is cute. I can hardly believe that we have started those little things to growing; it is very hard to see how the development of life has come about. Peter and Linda look awfully sweet in the picture.

Good night, little dear. What do you say to our sticking close together after this? If I had you here we could do lots of interesting things and have lots of fun - and why shouldn't we?

Love (bushels) from

Paddy