[stationery from The Commodore "New York's Best Located Hotel"]

[Monday night]

Dear love:

My trip was uneventful. On getting off the Superchief I saw Sorenson, who had arrived on a slow train; I offered to sell him half of my bedroom on the 20^th Century, so he turned in his berth and came with me. He went alone to the diner- I ate my rolls and cheese (I still have some). On arrival I checked in my room, and went to the meeting, which was interesting. I phoned Moe, and at 4:30 went to the Club (Century) with him to meet Dudley Easley, legal asst to Bush. Tate and Larry Frank were there. I'm working now on rewriting part of our committee report. I think that before going to bed, I'll go across the street to the newsreel movie.

I've received a letter from Addis, with lots of advice for the Committee.

Moe asked about you.

Love to you and the [indecipherable]

Paddy

November 26, 1945

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Linus Pauling

Nuclear Advisory Committee

I have sent you separately the account of a meeting of a nuclear committee (a very informal one, with no official standing at the Institute), and a report made to this committee.

A confidential report was also made. I shall give you a copy of this report later.

If there is any information that you, as the Chairman of the new Nuclear Advisory Committee formed by action of the Executive Committee of the Institute would like to have, please let me know.

Professor Yost has recommended that Gerhart Friedlander of Los Alamos be invited to visit the Institute, in order that he might be considered for appointment. Would it be possible for your Nuclear Advisory Committee to consider this recommendation? I enclose the letter sent to me by Professor Yost.

Linus Pauling

LP:gw

enc:

26 November 1945

Dearest Mom

I got a couple of your letters just before sailing.

Tomorrow morning we arrive at Port Said. We plan a short tour of Cairo, if there's no epidemic of plague.

The voyage has been interesting one day out of N.Y. the storm got to bad we had to heave to for a day we that's one day lost. The weather was bad until the Azores, when the ocean calmed down and the sun came out. We saw Portugal, a welcome sight after a week of water. Then, half a day later, Spain and Africa dove into view, and we sailed past Cape Trafalgar and Cape Spartel, and finally, Gibraltar.

The Mediterranean is absolutely beautiful. We skirted the coast as far as Tunis, so there was wild, rough, hilly, golden land to contrast with the deep blue sea. And the sunsets and sunrises are gorgeous.

The chances are 50-50 that we'll continue around the world to Seattle, I'll know when we get to Karachi.

All my love to you and the family, Mommikins.

Linus

INTER - DEPARTMENT COMMUNICATION

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

PASADENA

DATE November 26, 1945

TO Dr. J. H. Sturdivant

FROM Linus Pauling

SUBJECT

In Chemical Abstracts 39, 4274 (bottom of the page) there is a Russian paper about superstructure lines for potassium chloride, potassium bromide, potassium iodide, sodium chloride, caesium bromide, gold, silver, and platinum. Crystals freshly made from the melt do not show the superstructure lines, and these crystals of the alkali halides show a higher heat of solution. The authors think that the stable crystals have a superstructure. This might be worth looking into.

Linus Pauling

LP:gw

[Handwritten addition]

Dr. Pauling: Photostats have been ordered.

Do you suppose it would be worthwhile to subscribe to some Russian journals? Ten years from now people might be reading them.