August 6, 1947

Dr. T. Addis, M.D.

Department of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

2398 Sacramento Street

San Francisco, California

Dear Tom:

I am glad to say that Ava Helen and I got safely back from our trip of two months to England and Sweden. We had a fine time, and we thought about you often.

I hope that you are now in good shape, and that Mrs. Addis is also well.

I haven't very much to report about the matter of your visit to England. I talked with Sir Edward Mellanby, who said that it would be fine to have you come, and that he would make whatever arrangements were needed. He said to let him know as soon as the trip was definitely scheduled.

I also talked a good bit with people at the English universities about using the funds under the Fulbright Amendment for support of professors and advanced research men instead of exclusively for undergraduate students. They are enthusiastic about the idea, and it is, of course, permitted under the law. However, I am not at all sure what decision will be made by the new Presidential board. I am not a member of this board, and I do not yet know who the members are. I received a telegram from the State Department saying that the President had decided not to appoint me a member of the board because I was going to be out of the country during the major part of the coming year.

Our trip was a very interesting one. We spent three days at the northern end of Long Island, at a conference of twenty-five people on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Then we flew to England, stayed for a week in Cambridge, a week in Oxford, and ten days in London. The Cambridge and Oxford visits were full of social affairs, which kept us very busy, but the first ten days in London were quiet ones, which we devoted exclusively to resting and sightseeing. We then flew to Stockholm, and had ten days of very pleasant vacation, including a three-day visit to Visby, on the island of Gottland in the Baltic. We attended the first three days of the International Congress of Experimental Cytology in Stockholm, a very pleasant affair, and then went back to London. Here for about two weeks we were kept busy with the Centenary Celebration of The Chemical Society, the International Union of Chemistry, and the International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry. We then flew to New York, and took the train home. I shall tell you all about conditions in England when we visit you next.

Are you going to be in San Francisco about a month from now? Ava Helen and I are thinking that it would be good to drive up, and to call on you, along about the first of September. Our plans are very flexible, however, and we could adjust the time of our visit to suit your convenience.

My textbook of freshman chemistry has just appeared, and I have been looking through it for mistakes. We seem to have been fortunate, however, for I have found only one so far.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

[Linus Pauling]

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