[on Lord Beaverbrook letterhead]

Wednesday morning

Dearest little love:

Another day has gone by - that much nearer to the time when I am home again with my darling.

Last night I gave my public address. It began at 8 ³⁰ - too bad, because the train out leaves at 8 ³⁰ and thus I have had to stay another day. All the doctors in town were there, and most of the faculty people and wives. The talk overwhelmed them. Afterward there was a reception in the president's quarters. The whole affair reminds me of our visit to Purdue. I got to bed at 11 ³⁰ . It was 17° below zero. My room is only a few feet from the bank of the St John's river, which is the biggest Atlantic river in N. America south of the St Lawrence - about like the Willamette at Portland, or bigger. It is now an expanse of white - not smooth, however; it seems to have frozen to form ice about 6 inches thick, to have broken up, and then to have frozen again, leaving great jagged slabs sticking up at odd angles. It snowed off and on yesterday, but it is clear today.

I am going in a few minutes to talk to a physicist who has some idea that he thinks is new, and then to Professor Toole's class. I have nothing scheduled for the afternoon, and have a dinner engagement with the biology professor, who will see me aboard the train.

Give my love to the children. I hope that you have been taking care of yourself and getting enough sleep - and also have been exercising your hand.

Much love from your own

Paddy

P.S. Would you mail or send this note to Dan? I haven't another stamp.

Paddy.

February 8, 1950

Dr. John T. Edsall

Harvard Medical School

25 Shattuck Street

Boston 15, Mass.

Dear John:

I have been thinking about the molecular models on which Dr. Corey has been working for several years, and about which you know and have decided to write to yon to ask for advice.

A great deal of effort has already been put into the design of these models. Dr. Corey has devoted the last dozen years to determining some of the interatomic distances and bond angles, and other people in our laboratories have contributed, both during this period and earlier. In addition, we have invested several thousand dollars in designing the models. I believe that some of the later designs were given to you by Dr. Corey.

Now, we have been considering the problem of financing the work further. We have made tentative approaches to several foundations, without success so far. Perhaps you could give us some advice on this point. Also, we have made some effort to find out how the models could best be manufactured - especially the half-size plastic models. If you have any ideas on this point, I trust that you will let us know. I think that it is the California Institute Research foundation that owns the copy rights, though it may be the California Institute of Technology itself. In either case, what we are interested in is asking the best possible design and acquiring the models in satisfactory number.

It is my belief that Dr. Corey has been doing a wonderful job in designing these models, and I do not want to see the work falter because of lack of support.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Dictated by Linus Pauling

Signed in his absence:W