January 5, 1945

Mr. W. R. Stott

Changes in Budget

I recommend that the following changes be made in the budget for the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, as summarized in the comparison made as at November 30, 1944.

1. Account No. 1304, Rock. Struc. Chem. Salaries: From $29,265 to $6,265

2. Account No. 1318, Rock. Org. Chem. Salaries: From $1,747 to $24,747

3. Account No. 1315, Rock. Immuno. Chem.: Gross amount from $6,750 to $13,500

4. Account No. 1396, Immuno. Chem. Lib.: To be consolidated with No. 1315, Rock. Immuno. Chem.

5. Account No. 1395, Chem. Lib. budget appropriation to be increased from $2,250 to $2,750, by transfer from Account No. 1300.

[Linus Pauling]

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cc to A. Townsend

January 10, 1945

Dr. Frank Blair Hanson

The Rockefeller Foundation

49 West 49th Street

New York 20, N. Y.

Dear Dr. Hanson:

This answer to your letter of November 24 has been delayed in part by the difficulty in reaching a decision as to what to do and in part by my intense preoccupation with war work.

It seems clear to me that I myself and all of the other men here will be kept very busy with war work for at least another year, and that the most that we can do in our attack on the protein problem is to continue the work in immunochemistry and in serological genetics at about the same rate as at present. I accordingly believe that it would be most satisfactory if this were to be done, and the consideration of an expanded intensive program were to be postponed for about one year. I shall be glad to have your opinion on this point.

It would indeed be a pleasure to us if either you or Dr. Weaver could visit us in Pasadena.

Cordially yours,

Linus Pauling

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January 11, 1945

Dr. V. Bush, Director

Office of Scientific Research and Development

1530 P Street NW.

Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Bush:

I am very pleased to accept the appointment mentioned in your letter of January 5 as a member of the special committee which will devote its attention to the question of the future of medical research in this country.

If the committee holds many meetings, it may not be possible for me to attend all of them, because of the distance from California to Washington. I shall, however, do my best to be helpful to the committee.

Sincerely yours, Linus Pauling

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cc to Dr. Millikan

January 17, 1945

Dr. A. Recsei

474 Cold Spring Rd.

Santa Barbara, California

Dear Dr. Recsei:

I regret that some time has been required for me to determine the situation about your note on an apparatus for sublimation.

It has been called to my attention that the work described in this note was done under a classified Government contract, and that accordingly the note can not be published without approval by the OSRD. Under the circumstances, I have decided the note should not be submitted for publication as a contribution from the California Institute of Technology.

I return the typescript to you herewith. You may do anything you wish with it, except to publish it as a contribution from the California Institute of Technology; what you do must, of course, be compatible with the conditions under which the work was done.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

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Enclosure

January 19, 1945

Air Mail

Dr. W.W. Palmer

Presbyterian Hospital

68 West 68th Street

New York, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Palmer:

I am writing to mention to you a problem in connection with my service on the committee of which you are chairman. This problem also confronts the other western members of the committee.

I should like to attend the meetings of the committee, and I find it necessary to travel by train. It is difficult to obtain train reservations on less than thirty days notice; even with this notice there is considerable difficulty in crossing the continent. I hope that you will possible to schedule the meetings of the committee this far ahead.

I would be pleased if the meetings of the committee were to come at such times as to permit me to do other jobs while in the East. I am leaving this week on a short trip to Washington and New York, and I have another trip East scheduled for the early part of March. It would be fine for me if the first meeting of the committee were to take place early in March.

I do not have any other eastern trips scheduled at present. The time late in April when the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society meet would, however, be suitable to me.

I am looking forward to meeting you, and I trust that you will forgive me for bringing this point about our difficulties of transcontinental travel to your attention.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

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(A card. On the front;)

A Loving Valentine for my Husband.

(Inside;)

Let all the other gals rave on

About the men they've got,

But I'll just wear a knowing smile

And never say a lot;

Because most anyone who's smart

Can very plainly see

There's one who's far above the rest--

And he belongs to me!

(An additional card within the card.)

(On front;)I miss you

(Inside;)And think of you all the time.

Tuesday, January 23 [1945, from perpetual calendar and content of the letter]

Dearest Paddy;

Today we did all of our errands: the tire, the teeth, the films, the recovered hay from the manger, etc. The starter stuck once but that pleasant man at Lake and Walnut shook it loose for me. They have helped me before at that place. The man at Reids would only make one print each for me. He said the paper shortage is acute.

This afternoon Mrs. Bateman called and in a raphodie voice told me Joan is engaged to that lad from Oregon John Thurwell (?). Joan is very happy as indeed they all are. She received her ring yesterday and only announced it today. Mrs. B. called me she said, in order to be able to tell me the great news before you had the opportunity. She said John had proposed the very day Graham died and that she had waited 29 years for a son and now would have one. She feels that we have had a part, I am glad and hope that this is really a good lad. I had noticed Joan a few days ago and thought how much better she looked and how much her work had improved her.

A long letter came from Lina Weinbaum. She is a funny person all right.

The war is going well again. I hope it is the end this time.

A wonderful letter from Don to Crellie and Linda and of all things, a fine V-mail from Bud to Peter. There was rejoicing! It is interesting how these boys personalities are revealed in their letters. Linda just informs me (I wont help her with her geography - or is it French?)that you have probably found a girl that you like better than me and that you are out with her right now having a heigho time. This find a girl! Knows all the tricks. Wait until she tries crawling in my bed tonight. I felt sorry for her last night so relented from my firm stand of the morning.

Good Night

Your Girl,

Ava Helen

P.S. Linda loves you.

[letterhead: THE SHERATON HOTEL

WASHINGTON 5, D.C. This letterhead appears at the top of each of 3 pages ]

January 24, 1945

Dearest love:

I was happy to find your letter here on arriving this morning, two and a half hours late. My stop at Pittsburgh had been enlivened by great excitement - the idea that I had communicated a couple of weeks ago had been combined with a new development by Kincaid to give a most promising result, in which everyone is interested.

I telephoned Phoebe in Chicago, and found that Thorfin was in Washington. Then I went to a movie -- Bob Hope in "The Princess and the Pirate," which was pretty funny, and also to the Newsreel.

Today I spent mainly in the Academy building talking to the CMR people. Dr. George Guest then invited me to his home for a cocktail. I stepped into the Academy

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washroom, and brushed a man without looking (nor did he look). Then I said something to Guest; at the sound of my voice the stranger turned -- he was Goudsmit! Just back from Paris (which he entered one day after de Gaulle -- with tears streaming down his cheeks) and Strassburg, and full of tales; he is in charge of a unit (army, navy personnel + civilians -- he is looking now for a sensible scientist who speaks German). He has a pass from Eisenhower saying that MP's are to keep hands off, + that he can take any materials he wants, interrogate prisoners, etc., without hindrance. He was feeling low in spirit, having had trouble with the higher-ups in the service. Guest (who is a

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pediatrician in Cincinnati in peacetime) asked him along too, and after the cocktail Mrs. G. asked us to take potluck for dinner; which was excellent -- soup, spaghetti (and meatballs for the others), with Beaulieu Cabernet, salad with a fine French dressing (made by G.), biscuits in wine (from a can), turkish coffee, brandy, and later Creme de Menthe frappe. Mrs. G. is a writer (no children); I'm glad G. has her and not I! I may see Goudsmit again tomorrow night.

I talked with Lothrop + Chadwell earlier.

Good night, dear love, I adore you.

Your own

Paddy.

[An air mail envelope, with red and blue stripes on the edges, is included. Return address reads: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

Postmarked: Jan 25, 1945 from Washington, D.C. VIA AIR MAIL Addressed to: Mrs. Linus Pauling R. 1 Box 622 Pasadena, Calif Added later in LP's hand writing: Goudsmit -- He asked me to go to Germany on ALSOS ]

[written on California Institute of Technology letterhead]

Saturday morning, 8 AM

Dearest little love:

I was surely disgusted Thursday afternoon to get a telegram saying that the meeting of the postwar medical research committee had been set for Feb 5,6,+7 (in New York). I telephoned the secretary of the " (Homer Smith, in New York) at once, made a lightening decision to stay, and began the Herculean task of getting my reservations changed; so now, instead of beginning to count the hours until I see you again (it would have been about 97), I am counting the weeks (over 2)! I love you, darling, and am lonesome for you.

Thursday our meeting went well. We laid plans (in the powder field) for the period July 1, 1945 to June 30, 1946, on the assumption presented by the President that we'd be fighting on both fronts (Conf!). I went to dinner with Goudsmit [?], Carl Niemann, Pierce (Chi), and Colby (Ann Arbor), and Lathrop, + I had a good meeting -- they were well pleased with a demonstration I put on. We had a special meeting then with Robley Evans, who is doing some work for that group; and broke up at 6 PM. At lunch at the Harvard Fac. Club. I saw the Indians [?] again, and also Edsall.

Then at 6 I had dinner (alone), and telephoned Phil Morse, and then spent the evening with him and Annabelle. Last night on the train back to New York was normal, except that I had some trouble sleeping, having probably drunk too much coffee.

I must go now to try to get my reservations to Pasadena fixed up -- I am sitting in the lobby of the Biltmore (the room won't be ready until noon) -- and then go to the Guggenheim meeting.

I wish you were to be here during the week when I have nothing much to do in New York -- we'd paint the town red. I'll see if I can fix things up for Lederle to manufacture our plasma substitute; and I'll rest thoroughly. Probably I'll have to go back to Boston for a couple of days for another meeting.

I love you, darling.

Your Paddy

Love to CRELLIN, LINDA, PETER

[written on the Biltmore letterhead]

Sunday, 1 ³⁰ PM

Dearest love:

We have just finished the Guggenehim job (until the next meetings, March 24 and 25); and I am lonesome for my little sweetheart, and wondering if I can hold out for nearly two weeks longer. Believe me, I'll make up for the three weeks away when I get to you!

Yesterday's meeting moved along smoothly to 6. Then I came to the hotel for an hour's rest, and we all (Miss Sabin, Notestein, Wilson, Henry, Edith, + I) had dinner with Aydelotte at the Harvard Club. Then I went to bed, and got up for today's session, from 9 to 1. Henry has had pneumonia - he didn't stop work when he should have. He is the chairman of one of the Presidential Committees - the one on developing talent in young people.

There was nothing exciting about the new Fellows. I stuck up for the young ones! The man (Bradford Smith) who will write about Japanese in America was approved.

I'm going to write some letters to people in the lab. Have you checked up on Mrs Holdredge? Then I'm going out to the Museum of Modern Art, + then on to the Mirskys.

I was glad to get your letter and Crellie's note. I love you.

Your own

Paddy

[written on The Biltmore letterhead]

[Guggenheim written in blue ink by LP]

Dear love;

I've just remembered something that EBW said at dinner. A man named Samuelson was being discussed, and EBW said "The most brilliant man I have ever had in my classes, out of 120 per year for 40 years, was Vannever Bush; next was Samuelson; and third Richard Tolman - you understand, of course, that Linus was never in my classes." I was amused by this in several ways.

Today I got up at 8 ³⁰ (I had read a book and some articles last night), had breakfast, and went to the meeting, which progressed well, all of the job being done by 1. Some postwar fellows were appointed - the Trustees are appropriating [inside right hand side of page] $200000 extra for this purpose. Another one in addition to Van Niel will come to Pasadena to work with me this year.

At 2 I went to the Mirsky's, and had lunch and then supper. Alfred has been offered a permanent post at $6000 at the Cold Springs Harbor Lab. Of the Carnegie Institution. (His present job, as associate member at the Rockefeller Institute at 4200, 5200 next year, is temporary, and must be reconsidered every third year) I recommended to him strongly to go to C.S. harbor - he hates to leave the Institute, where he has been [left hand side of page] for 16 years.

Alfred had a letter from I.A. Mirsky, saying that Col. Hall said that it would be hard to do anything for Linus because he has had no medical training at all, but that he would try.

When Addis was here a couple of weeks ago he told the Mirskys that he thought that I would recover completely, and be the first patient to do so. He also said that three years ago his prognosis was that I would be dead in two year - and that I would have been, too, if I had not come to him. I thanked Alfred for having suggested it.

I love you, darling. I'm going to bed now, to the R. Inst. tomorrow morning, and to start home at 4PM. I'll stop in Moe's office at 2 ³⁰ to say goodbye to him - and see if there is a letter for me - none has come.

Your own

Paddy

Monday, 9 PM (Jan 29)

Dearest little wive (sic):

Time passes - but slowly, and I had to count the days until I get home; the half-way mark hasn't been reached yet. I"ll squaaze you when I get you.

Yesterday afternoon I went to the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit "Ae Clothes Modern?" was not very good. I saw a wonderful painting - about 8 feet square - by a Russian named Tschelitscheff. It is called "Hide and Seek", "and is a Vexierbild - all parts doing double or triple duty - a great tree dominating, and with the bark and limbs and leaves and twigs composing faces, bodies (very well painted, and complete, once you find them), and arms and hands, sometimes showing the veins and arteries, or the bones - most clever and interesting. I watched it for perhaps over half an hour. I then saw some Charlie Chaplin films from 1915 - The Tramp, The Woman, The Jail, and The Police; and then at 5 went to the Mirsky's , and talked to Alfred, who is staying at the Rock. Inst. Having turned down the good job at Cold Spring Harbor. Rebsie [?] made a supper for us - a fried egg, toast, milk, + cake. Reba was away, at a flute concert. At 9 I came back to the hotel, read a while, and went to sleep.

Today I saw Dr Beard at American Garanmide. He took me to lunch ^ (mushroom omelet) in the French Room next to the ice rink at Rockefeller Center. We watched the skaters. Lederle is going ahead with making our oxypolygelatin. Then I talked with Hanson at the Rockefeller Foundation about our work and about money for a bigger program; I may see Weaver on Thursday. And then I walked down 5^th Ave. And went to a 4-hour show at the Paramount on Times Square - Bing Crosby in "Here Come the Waves" - very entertaining, especially one song - "Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative, ---"

Now I'll go to bed, and get another day off.

Did I tell you that Carl Niemann had an emergency appendectomy in Washington on Friday or Saturday?

I adore you, darling girl.

Your own

Paddy

Tell Linda that I still have some marshmallows, nuts, and cookies, and that they're good.

[written on the Biltmore letterhead]

7⁴⁵ PM, Tuesday

Dearest love:

Well, time is going by slowly - my trip is half over, and each day brings me closer to you. I love you. Your Thursday letter came this morning, with Crellins. I hope that he is over his rash. You hadn't yet got my telegram about the extra ten days.

The Russians are still going strong (see clipping). Everyone here is hopeful of an early end to Germany - a sudden collapse would not surprise people, but no one is willing to say that the Germans might not hold out for [inside right hand side] months.

I slept all right last night, but I have a trace of a cold. I think that it won't develop. It is cold here, but warmer than last week. I got up at 9, and went out to the Presbyterian Hospital to talk to Bill Palmer, the chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee. He is a nice fellow - about 60, white-haired. There are only seven members of the committee, including Daisy and me as non-medical ones - I'm the only one not in a medical school, and the only western representative. There are three [lefthand side of page] committees altogether: the medical one, a committee of 17 (Isaiah Bowman, chairman) on pure science, and another with Moe as chairman on discovering and developing scientific talent in American youth. These committees are to prepare reports to the President.

I went to lunch with Palmer + Turner. Joe Koepfli [?] was there too. Then I visited Dr Brand (a protein chemist), Gregorson (physiologist) and Roughton, and at 4 ³⁰ came back to the hotel. Moe brought me some mail. He has a cold. I went to the Grand Central station + bought my ticket to Boston (for a meeting there on [back of page] Saturday), and then went to a newsreel theater till 7, and came to my room. The maid has just made the bed - they are short of help.

Now I shall read a bit and then go to sleep. Tomorrow I shall visit the Rockefeller Institute.

I love you, darling.

Your own

Paddy

Dear Peter: I thank you very much for making the candied walnuts for me.

Daddy

Love to Linda and Crellie.

January 31, 1945

Dr. S. S. Prentiss

107 Engineering Building

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Dr. Prentiss:

I wish to refer to my letters of July 27, 1944 and November 7, 1944 regarding the disposition of the Oxygen Meters developed under our Contract OEMsr-584, and to your letter of November 4, 1944 authorizing us to send some of the meters to you.

We have just shipped two Model K meters to you at the Central Engineering Laboratory, 107 Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The crate which is labelled "No. 1" contains the 450 to 760 mm. instrument, and the crate which is labelled "No. 4" contains the 0 to 45 mm. instrument. Both meters are in carrying boxes which also contain confidential instruction sheets. The manufacturing operations which were necessary in obtaining the 450 to 760 mm. range in Meter No. 1 may have affected the stability of the calibration of that meter; consequently it is advisable to check the calibration frequently.

Dr. Reuben E. Wood has informed me that you have asked him about the present status of our "Airplane Model" of the Oxygen Meter, which we have designated as Model L, and that the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics has expressed some interest in the instrument. In one of my previous letters I indicated that this meter contains a defective suspension and should not be sent out in its present form. I have recently asked Dr. A. O. Beckman whether his group might undertake the job of replacing the present suspension with a satisfactory one. This would also involve the preparation of a new calibrated scale. He agreed to examine the meter and make an estimate of the cost of this job. I suggest that you communicate with him regarding a contract for this job and that you specify the range of oxygen partial pressure that you desire for the meter. When the meter is provided with a satisfactory suspension and scale it should be ready to be sent out for testing.

It appears that we can make good use of a sensitive oxygen meter in our hemoglobin research program under our Contract OEMsr-153. One of the Model K meters which we have manufactured under Contract OEMsr-584 has a linear range of 0 to 85 mm. of oxygen partial pressure and could be used for this purpose. We would like to keep this meter here and to turn over the two unfinished Model K meters to Dr. Beckman for completion, experimentation, or salvage.

Would you kindly let me know whether the above arrangements are satisfactory to you?

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

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