27 May 1954

Mr. Henry Allen Moe

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

551 Fifth Avenue

New York 17, N.Y.

Dear Henry:

I am writing about Dr. Livermore, in Reed College. I hope that you do not mind my taking a continued interest in the Guggenheim Fellows.

Linda wrote me that Livermore would not be able to go to England on his Guggenheim Fellowship next year, because he did not receive a Fulbright Fellowship, and the amount of the Guggenheim is not enough to permit him and his family to travel to Europe and live there. I know that the salaries at Reed are low - I have just written to the president about it, in answer to a letter from him asking if I could recommend one of our Ph.D.'s in chemistry for an appointment. I can understand that Livermore would not be able to supplement his Guggenheim Fellowship very much from his savings; he probably does not have any savings.

Livermore is, I believe, a very good man. He is primarily a good teacher, but he has a moderate amount of reasonably interested research under way, too. He recently had a letter published in NATURE.

I feel that the Guggenheim Fellowship should carry enough stipend to permit a man, with his family, to go to the place where he wants to carry on the work, and to live, and then to return home at the end of the year in essentially the same financial situation that he was in at the beginning of his Fellowship.

I am going to give the Commencement address at Reed this year. Linda is graduating there. She has just finished her undergraduate thesis, and turned it in.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W