15 June 1954
Dear Linus and Anita:
Mama and I are leaving in an hour or so on our trip. We are taking the Riley. I have just got two new tires, so that all four tires are new, and the engine has been worked over by Kraus. We are driving to Portland by way of Owens Valley and Reno -- we have never gone that way before, although we have covered a good bit of the route, in separate sections. Then we shall take Linda with us, stopping in Spokane to see Aunt Elizabeth, on Monday, the day after Commencement. We are to be in Toronto on Sunday 20 June. Probably Linda will take the plane from Toronto to England.
I am not sure what the arrangements are about your car. We do not want Crellin to have a car in Portland. He has spent too much of his time this year running around the countryside, and we have told him that he is not to have a car.
I have just written a letter to Max and Daphne Mason, asking them to telephone you when they arrive in Honolulu. I am sure that you would like to see them. My understanding is that they will stay there for a month, with President Hard. You no doubt know him, from Pomona days. He is to be lecturing at the University.
I have not seen Max Mason for several months. He has not been well during recent years, but I judge that both he and Daphne are feeling better now. I consider him to be one of my best friends, and I have great admiration for him. He was professor of mathematical physics or mathematics in Wisconsin, then president of the University of Chicago, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and then, for a number of years, in the California Institute of Technology, where he served as chairman of the Observatory Council, in the building of the 200-inch telescope.
Love from
[Linus Pauling]
Dictated on 9 June by Linus Pauling
Signed in his absence:W