9 May 1954
Dear Daddy,
Thank you for your letter and the money. I have put it in my account because I needed it.
My plans will be somewhat influenced by Linda. I shall not buy a car because they are
too much trouble and expense I shall go diddle in Italy a while.
I do not think I am admitted subject to Mott's approval. I am now admitted none or less
certainly.
I am searching for a problem to work on really. I expect I shall work on Myoglobin and
the testing of models. There is one obvious straight forward more or less and solvable problem
that I would like to do and this is the structure of insulin. I expect I cannot though, because John
won't let me for Dorothy, and I am unsure what Dorothy would think. The chemists are all in
Cambridge, and we can put silver or mercury on almost any protein now with artificial S.H.
groups. Our chemist even has some insulin lying about to which he has put on 2 Ag/6000 mol
wt. I think by hard work and a lot of crystallization Insulin would f all out in a little while.
Perhaps I can do it in two years in Pasadena. It is a shame, I would like to try it. Perhaps I shall
talk to Dorothy. I do not much care about Barbala Low.
Much love,
Peter
May
9, 1954
