Chulalongarana University
Bangkok, Thailand
15 January 1954
Prof. Thong Sook Bongsadadt
The Ohio State University
Columbus 10, Ohio
Dear Professor Bongsadadt:
I am sorry that I was not in Pasadena at the time of your recent visit here. I trust that Dr. Roberts succeeded in giving you all of the information that you were interested to obtain.
I am writing to ask your advice about a visit that I hope to make to Thailand in the course of a trip around the world. This year I was invited by the Government of India and the Indian Science Congress Association to spend six weeks in India, and my wife and I had planned to go to India by way of Europe, and then to continue on to California by way of Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Unfortunately we found it necessary to postpone the trip, and I am beginning to plan a similar trip for a year from now.
According to these plans, we shall leave Pasadena about 1 December 1954, and spend the period from 1 January to 15 February 1955 in India. We would then fly to Bangkok, and could stay several days there.
I should be glad to have advice from you as to a suitable hotel in which we might make reservations. Also, let me say that I should be pleased to give some lectures - perhaps a lecture at the University, or before the Chemical Society of Thailand. I might speak on any of the following topics:
The Structure of Antibodies and the Nature of Serological Reactions.
The Valence of Metals and the Structure of Intermetallic Compounds.
The Chemical Bond and the Electronic Structure of Molecules.
A Theory of Ferromagnetism.
The Hemoglobin Molecule in Health and Disease.
There is plenty of time - over a year - before the proposed trip, but the fact that the arrangements for the trip this year, which had to be postponed, were made very hastily has suggested that I get in touch with you now. Please let me know if I should write to someone else about the matter of the visit in Thailand.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling:W
January
15, 1954
