February 27, 1967

Dr. K. Otani

9-2 Takara

Kanazawa, Japan

Dear Dr. Otani:

My wife and I were pleased to receive you letter of 10 February, as well as your Christmas greetings, and we thank you and send you our best wishes.

I have sent you letter on to Mr. Stanely Schaefer, President of W. H. Freeman and Company. It is the publisher who makes arrangements for publication of foregin editions of my books, and he is the one who would be involved in arranging for teh Japanese translation. I trust that he will write to you about the matter, or will get in touch with a Japanese publisher.

With best regards, I am

Sincere yours,

Linus Pauling

Signed by Dr. Pauling's Secretary in his absence

cc: Mr. Stanley Schaefer

W.H. Freeman Company

LP:fkg

27 February 1967

Dear Mamma,

Thank you for your many letters. I apologize for not writing and wishing you a happy birthday and a merry Christmas. As you can read in Daddy's letter, I have been most preoccupied. Various troubles and excitement about getting an adequate instrument after ten years and worrying about who was going to pay for it. I ordered the stuff and then started to worry about a source of money. At last it has come and the pieces of the instrument are coming and I am getting it together. It is quite exciting. Off to Germany tomorrow for two days to look at part of it and see what it is and to tell them what I want.

I am glad you had an exciting trip to India and that you spent some time with Linus Jr.

I am very excited about my machine. It will be going sometime this summer and then I can really work. It interferes with sleep being too excited.

Life at home has its ups and downs. Downs a little too much of the time. It is really rather stupid. Still, on we go.

The children are well, Sarah is now seven. She is rather fun though sometimes a pill because she wants to be a baby. Thomas is doing well. Last term he was top of the class even in the school of smart little kids. He wants to go to Holland Park Comprehensive School next year. It is new and large but a bit mixed. It is posh these days full of socialists children with lots of money. It is not really comprehensive in the sense of being able to study lots of things but only has many "streams" of children taking different courses.

My house plants are coming along well, except for one or two which seem to be dying off. The front window is doing well.

Julia seems to be doing well in school. It is very good for her. She works four days a week. Still very yell-y at the children, though. I do not like it.

I have put up the shelves in the living room. They are very nice. Two shelves all around the room more or less rather low down. It takes away some of the vertical slot feeling. I have also made myself a new desk £op. It is a 6' x 3' teak laboratory table top, turned over and sanded down. It is lovely. I like it.

I strongly recommend that you get a flat in Montpelier. For a modest fee, I shall go down twice a year and air it out and warm it up and give it that lived-in feeling that is so nice. I might even move in permanently and move out when you come, so that it really has that warm, occupied atmosphere. I can take my x-ray set with me. I am sure the MRC won't mind. It is a bit far for weekends though.

Christmas presents keep showing up for me, and the bills go directly to the Medical Research Council. It is very nice. Computer, test equipment, meters, x-ray sets. Lovely. I must say I worried a bit about what might happen after I had ordered the computer and other bits. Oh well, I might as well be hung for a sheep etc.

Come back and see us.

Much love,

Peter

27 February 1967

Dear Daddy,:

Thank you for your several letters. I do not think you should get too involved in arguing with Jim, though you can certainly say what you think.

Thank you for the paper on food and drugs. I have read it and have some comments but shall send them in a separate document.

Life has been rather worrying recently. In November I became very fed up with the system and Uncle Ron Nyholm and life and went along and ordered myself a computer and some electronic bits and pieces and borrowed a four-circle diffractometer from David Phillips and started to design and make myself a copy of the diffractometer at Oak Ridge, which works rather well. Busing has sent me his programs which are about five man year’s effort. I then started to worry a bit about who was going to pay for $16000 worth of stuff I had ordered. (Order number P.P.1.) Well, the Medical Research Council have just come through with about $40000 for the pieces and it is rather nice because about $4000 of the electronics have already come and they are sending me bills. The computer will be here in March. I should have a system going sometime in the summer.

I am off to Germany bright and early tomorrow morning to look at a diffractometer with which to replace David Phillips’. I shall be back Wednesday. I am rather pleased with the Medical Research Council. It was really David Phillips who refereed the application. My system has to work or not only will the MRC be after me but also D.C. Phillips. It will. I am the only person I know who knows the ins and outs of an instrument shop, the innards of computers, electronics and logic, and programming. Sometime soon I hope I can really get to work doing single crystal structures.

Papers are going slowly. I am so taken up with machines and getting and spending money that I cannot do the papers. There are six good structures done that need writing up.

I hope you had a good trip. Not too tiring. I have had enough travel for a while, though I would like to go to Pasadena and rescue some of my stuff, particularly to give to Thomas. I also would like to visit several labs in the states and see what is going on. And Oak Ridge to learn how to run the instrument.

I am also getting a new lab, about four times as big as my old one. I shall need it. The room has 15 ft. ceilings and windows along two walls. It is quite nice.

Jack Lewis is coming back to UC. He will be an asset, Sondheimer is coming too. I met him the other day. He seems rather exciting. How long he will stay is uncertain.

May I wish you a happy birthday? And many more of them. I look forward to seeing you again.

Much love,

XXX OOO Peter

L. Pauling 27 February 1967

L. Pauling

HOLD AND GIVE TO DR. PAULING WHEN TRANSCRIPT OF AZAD MEMORIAL LECTURES ARRIVES.

AZAD MEMORIAL LECTURES

In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for December 1966, pages 23 and 24, there is a discussion of the possible development of nuclear weapons by India.