| < |
May
1932
|
> |
| S |
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
1
In Cambridge, MA |
2
In Cambridge, MA |
3
In Cambridge, MA |
4
In Cambridge, MA |
5
In Cambridge, MA |
6
In Cambridge, MA |
7
In Cambridge, MA |
8
In Cambridge, MA |
9
In Cambridge, MA |
10
In Cambridge, MA |
11
In Cambridge, MA |
12
In Cambridge, MA |
13
In Cambridge, MA |
14
In Cambridge, MA |
15
In Cambridge, MA |
16
In Cambridge, MA |
17
In Cambridge, MA |
18
In Cambridge, MA |
19
In Cambridge, MA |
20
In Cambridge, MA |
21
In Cambridge, MA |
22
In Cambridge, MA |
23
In Cambridge, MA |
24
In Cambridge, MA |
25
In Cambridge, MA |
26
In transit to Pasadena, CA |
27
In transit to Pasadena, CA |
28
In transit to Pasadena, CA |
29
In transit to Pasadena, CA |
30
In transit to Pasadena, CA |
31 |
|
|
|
|
Click on a day for specific listings and a related image.
- Publications: Written by LP: “The Resonance of Molecules Among Several Electronic Structures. The Nucleus (Northeastern Section, American Chemical Society, 9, pp. 183-184. [LP Publications, 1932p.12]
- Letter from Neil Dickinson to LP RE: Informs LP of the birth Neil Jr who was one month premature. Because of the unexpected
hospital bills Dickinson asks LP to lend him the money in the meantime. [Filed under: Dickinson, Roscoe G.: Research Notebooks,
Correspondence, 1919-1941]
- Memorandum Cheque notifying LP of $50 transfer among accounts
- AHP writes cheque to: Nora Gard Miller amount $20
- AHP writes cheque to: Nora Gard Miller amount $2.50
- Manuscript: The Energy of Resonance of a Molecule among Several Electronic Structures, Fourth Lecture, M.I.T. Lectures on Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 5, 1932. [LP Science Box 2.002, Folder
6/LP Speeches 1932s.16]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[Envelope return address:]
L Pauling [handwritten]
After 5 days return to
massachusetts institute of technology
cambridge a, mass.
[Envelope addressed to:]
Mrs. Ava Helen Pauling
1245 Arden Road
Pasadena, California
[Post mark:]
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
MAY 6 [Based on letter & enclosure, post mark could be wrong — should be May 7?]
12-PM
1932
[Letterhead:]
massachusetts institute of technology
department of physics
cambridge, mass.
Friday night at 10.
Dearest darling little wife:
I love you very much. I hope you are sound asleep now. Please be careful of yourself. Remember that I love you. I had
a hard time getting off the platform when your train left, for I couldn't keep a couple of tears from coming to my eyes and
running over, and I didn't want the railroad men to see me, but finally I managed to get them wiped away surreptitiously.
Then I went to the American Academy. Lamb gave a very good talk about Dr Noyes. Everything was very nice about the presentation.
Mrs Richards and Patty sat in the front row. Dr Noyes told several jokes. He said that he felt towards Lamb the way the
very drunken man lying in the gutter felt, who said to the gentleman who asked him the way to the post office “Flatterer.”
I told Dr Noyes that you sent him congratulations. Mrs Conant is going to the hospital on Monday for repairs, Conant said.
I spoke to Mrs. Conant. John brought me back home. He was surprised that we caught the train — we didn't have much time
left, either. Remember that I love you, darling. I think I'll mail this now and read Time until I feel sleepy. I hope you
are comfortable and not too lonely.
Your ownLinus
[Filed as 1932x.05.06.LP]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[An envelope is included]:
[Postmark:]Boston, Mass. So. Postal Annex May 8 1932 7 PM
[Addressed to:]Mrs. Linus Pauling 1245 Arden Rd Pasadena, Calif.
[Return address:] L. Pauling [remainder is imprinted on envelope]: After 5 days return to
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CAMBRIDGE A, MASS.
[Letterhead:] UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
BERKELEY
Sunday morning at 150 AM.
Dearest Ava Helen:
I love you very much, and hope you are all right. I slept until 9 this morning and then had breakfast on Brattle St. (grapefruit
juice + bacon sandwich + coffee) and had my hair cut and hat cleaned. Then I went to Tech and moved in my new office (by the
way, Conant last night said he was sorry he had missed my lecture). I gave John Mullikan's paper + talked with him a little.
Helen + he were afraid you'd miss the train here - I was too a little while we were in the taxi. Then I came home, stopping
at Brattle St for lunch - lobster pattie. Then I had dinner at the other Brattle St place - sirloin steak, tomato juice cocktail.
Then I sent your telegram to Chicago. I hope you got it. Copy is enclosed. Helen called just before 6 and asked me to dinner
at 130 tomorrow. Isn't she good? Then I read the transcript till 9, and have worked on my paper until now, 2 AM., getting
to p. 24. I think it's a good paper, but I haven't been able to think of any more pictures to draw. The trunk arrived. It
looks pretty good. I've packed a layer of books already. I sent off to EB Wilson Yost's + my manuscript for the Proc. Nat.
Acad. this afternoon too. A letter from Dickinson came. It's enclosed. I send [sic] him a check for $95. I hope he + his family
get along all right. I included a note for him to sign. I'm going to bed now. I love you more than anything else in the world.
Give Linus and Peter kisses for me.
Your ownLinus
[Another note is included]:
Santa Fe Train # 3, Westbound, arr. Kansas City 810 AM. Sect. 4, Car 354
I hope you had a good trip and a good time with Phoebe and Thorfin and that you caught this train. Doctor Noyes had a good
time enjoyed getting his medal. I have written ten pages of a new paper on the chemical bond. I love you and Willie very
much.
Linus
(Verifying my telegram of the 7th inst.)
Filed as 1932x.05.08.LP
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[Letterhead] UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
BERKELEY
Sunday at 12 Midnight
Dearest Ava Helen:
I love you very much. Your telegram came this morning, and I was glad to know that you got along all right in Chicago and
caught your train. You didn't mention my telegram - I hope it reached you. I got up at 10 this morning, had breakfast at the
Georgian on the Square, and read the Sunday paper, and at 130 went to the Slaters. Two young men from Rochester were there.
We had a very nice chicken dinner. Bernice came in and said the rompers were ready. I'll get them tomorrow and send them to
you. I came home at 430 and worked on my paper, and then went for a walk to get up an appetite, walking towards town. The
streets were full of negroes - there must be a large negro population. I reached Central square and decided to return on the
subway. When it stopped, and I was ready to get out (nearly everyone else having done so), a woman asked if I would help her
carry her niece out, a girl of about 10, who she said was “sick.” I did so, and tried to hold her horizontally, she kicking
and squirming in the meantime, having, I presume, an epileptic seizure or something similar; but in a couple minutes, during
which the subway guard and various bystanders gave assorted advice, she was able to stand and I departed hastily. I had supper
at St Clair's, bought and read for a while the American Mercury, and then worked on my paper, reaching page 28. It is nearly
completed now, and I am getting sleepy.
Yesterday I bought a bottle of hexylresorcinol, which I use regularly as a mouthwash. My mouth seems to be better. I washed
my hair + bathed this morning.
I shall be glad when I come home to you. I saw in the paper that Houston will be at Cornell this summer.
Loads of love from yourLinus
[An envelope is included]:
Postmark: Cambridge, Mass May 9 1932 11 AM
Addressed to: Mrs. Linus Pauling 1245 Arden Road Pasadena, California
Return address: L. Pauling [remainder is imprinted on envelope]: After 5 days return to
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
CAMBRIDGE A, MASS.
Filed as 1932x.05.08.LP.2
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[letter written on University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley letterhead]
Monday, 11 PM.
Dearest Ava Helen:
I love you very much, and think of you all the time. This morning I got up at 9, had breakfast, packed, paid my bill (12.50),
and moved over to the club, arriving at 11. I couldn't get everything in the trunk and bag, and had a brief-case full left
over. I think I must mail the mattress pad home. Then I went to the Institute, and had lunch with Phil, Manuel Vallarta, &
Bacher, and then came back to the Club & worked on my paper, which is now practically finished. Then I went to the physics
colloquium at Harvard, where Simon spoke. I saw Conant at dinner, Patty being in the hospital, and promised to speak to the
Harvard chemists. Then Simon & I went to the Bridgmans, B. coming for us in his car. The Slaters & the Oldenbergs were there
too. We had a good chicken dinner. Helen was worried about whether you meant her to buy the couch cover or not, and to buy
Lawrence a present from us or not. I told her to forget her worries. At 10 we left, Simon & I walking home. His family is
in Berlin now. He is worried about anti-semitism. He is a jew, & so is his wife (and the children). We talked about jews a
while. He said Eucken was brought to Gottingen instead of Stern because there are so many jews there already (Frauck, Born,
Conant, Goldschmidt) and they thought it better not to have another.
I must get up at 7 in the morning. I hope you are sleeping well now on the train. When I finish my lecture tomorrow at 10
you'll be wakening, and at 1140 you'll be arriving in pasadena [sic]. I hope you are comfortable and happy. Remember your
paddy loves you.
YourLinus
Filed as 1932x.05.09.LP
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $30
- Manuscript: Wave Functions for Molecules, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 11, 1932. [LP Science Box 2.002, Folder 5/LP Speeches
1932s.17]
- AHP writes cheque to: G. E. Stechert and Company amount $1.58
- AHP writes cheque to: William D. Crane amount $100
- AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation amount $7.62
- AHP writes cheque to: Golden State Dairy amount $9.36
- AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Company amount $2.90
- AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. amount $11.47
- AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. amount $9.33
- AHP writes cheque to: Hancock Music Company amount $12
- AHP writes cheque to: T. W. Mather Co. amount $2.50
- AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $2.96
- AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $3.82
- AHP writes cheque to: Southern Pacific Railway Co. amount $30.38
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[letter without envelope, on letterhead]
[Letterhead]
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
BERKELEY
[Letter:]
Wednesday at 845 AM
Dearest little sweetheart:
I was glad when you letter came yesterday to know that you are feeling well and getting along all right. I its nice that
you saw the Allisons, Mullikens, and Freeds. I love you, and hope you arent so lonesome for me as I am for you.
Yesterday morning I gave my crystal lecture at Tech, and worked till noon, and had lunch, and came home, speaking to Conant
for a few minutes outside the club. I worked on tomorrow's lecture a while, and then went to Conant's Simon's lecture, and
then with Joe Boyce to the party given by the physics undergraduates. A mock trial was held, with Compton as judge, but although
summoned I was not brought to trial. Then we went to the Pop concert, where I sat by Vic. It was rather amusing - light
music. Then I went to bed. I'm going to New Haven on Friday, and to Princeton the next week - end, to deliver two lectures.
I'll be glad when my lectures here are over. I have only 4 more crystal lectures, two more extemporaneous lectures for chemists,
and three more molecule lectures to give, besides one chemists lecture at Harvard and two at Princeton.
I washed my hair and bathed this morning, I'm going to wash my hair every other day for a while.
Give my love to Linus and Peter, and remember that I love you more than anything else in the world.
Your LinusoverYesterday while asking Joe Boyce and Brode about cars, I said I didn't know whether to get a 5 passenger sedan or to look
into the future and get a 7 “ .
[Filed as 1932x.05.11.LP]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[written on University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley letterhead]
Wednesday, 10 PM
Dearest Ava Helen:
I love you very much. I liked getting your telegram this morning. A letter from Linus came this afternoon, and I wrote one
to him. I went to Tech. And worked & had lunch, and then went to town and bought a ticket to New Haven & then returned to
the club & worked till 5. Then I went to see Conant, talking with hin till 630. He had a dinner engagement, & I had dinner
at the club with Kohler & Soares (who's here). Then I walked up to the Brodes & got 4 rompers. The others will be ready soon
(there seem to be six). I've finished my new paper now. I bought a Crusader's magazine “The Hot Potato”, militating against
prohibition. The enclosed clippings are of the most amusing items. The small clipping is the only funny joke in the Crimson,
the Harvard humorous Magazine.
I'll be glad when I'm through with my lectures here. I do hope Linus doesn't have the whooping cough. Are you happy? I love
you with all my heart, darling girl. You are the sweetest and best girl in the whole world.
Your ownLinus
[Filed as 1932x.05.11.LP.2]
- Manuscript: Slater's Method of Formulating Wave Functions for Molecules, Fifth Lecture, M.I.T. Lectures on Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 12, 1932.[LP Science Box 2.002, Folder
6/LP Speeches 1932s.18]
- AHP writes cheque to: F. C. Nash & Co. amount $4.10
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[Envelope without a letter, only clippings:]
[Return address, part missing due to corrosion of the envelope:]
Pauli [rest missing]
Harvard Faculty Club
Cambridge, Mass.
[Addressed to:]
Mrs Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Rd
Pasadena, Calif.
[Postmark:]
CAMBRIDGE
MAY 12
11 AM
MASS.
1932
[Cancellation:]
38
[Stamps, two of the George Washington stamps, plus it was a paid-postage envelope. Six cents in total postage:]
UNITED STATES POSTAGE
1932 1932
WASHINGTON
2 CENTS 2
[Clippings, there are two newspaper clippings (it is unclear what newspaper they are from), and a clipping that appears to
be from a magazine:]
[Magazine clipping:]
Cannibal Cook: “Shall I boil the Missionary, sir?”
Cannibal Chief: “No, you fool, that's a Friar.”
--Whirlwind.
[Newspaper clipping #1, it's a political cartoon:]
[The picture is of Uncle Sam in bed, under the covers with a woman, “Betty Liquor”, in a nightie, also under the covers, and
she says to him:]
“Don't you think it's about time you made an honest woman of me, Sam?”
[Newspaper clipping #2, also has political cartoons. There are two frames right above each other in one column, and in the
next comments, some comments and frame three. The three frames are arranged in the shape of the letter L:]
[above frame 1]
“...and to uphold the Constitution of the United States, so help me...”
[frame 1 shows two men, one holding a Bible and the other with his hand on it, appearing to swear in]
[frame 2, shows the men whispering to each other. The Bible is now on the table and one man is whispering to the other]
Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment
[Frame 3 shows the two men again, this time with the Bible open, and inside is the cutout portion in the shape of a flask
and one man is about to drink from a shot glass and the other man, the one who was being sworn in in frame 1, is drinking
from the flask]
[Also on the clipping were these comments above frame three:]
Mrs. Colvin, head of the New York Women's Chris-
tian Temperance Union, in speaking of representatives
who drink wet but vote dry, said that they merely voted
to “satisfy their constituents.”
Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll asks: “Is the next generation
to be taught to enshrine hypocrisy as a virtue, and to
look upon expediency as the aim of public service?”
- Letter from Arthur A. Noyes to LP (at M.. I. T.) RE: Noyes has received the notice of the grant from the Rockefeller Foundation
and is enclosing a letter which shows the exact status of the grant. Informs LP about grant conditions as well as the recent
Associates meeting at C. I. T. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 3]
- Enclosed letter from Norma S. Thompson, Secretary, The Rockefeller Foundation to R. Millikan RE: Notifying C. I. T. that an
appropriation of $20,000 per year for two years has been made to support research programs in chemistry and physics. [LP Science
Box 14.037, Folder 3]
- AHP writes cheque to: Nora Gard Miller amount $20
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[envelope from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge A, Mass.]
[envelope post marked May 17, 1932]
[envelope addressed to:] Mrs [sic] Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Road
Pasadena, Calif.
[letter written on Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics letterhead]
[letter has some water spots (?)]
Monday at 10 PM. Club.
My sweet little wife:
A beautiful letter was awaiting me at the club this afternoon. I'm sorry you don't sleep well. I stay up very late, too, but
then I go to sleep until morning. I'm glad you are getting along well with Linus and Peter. They are such fine little fellows.
I'm glad to [sic] that you like me so much and that I like you and that we were married and had Liny and Peter.
I talked with Langmuir this morning. He is very interesting, especially because of his enthusiasm. We all had luncheon together.
Then I came home and got your letter. Then I bought some books to read, and some shaving soap. I seem to need some light reading
for amusement. Before & since dinner I read a book called "The Substitute Wife", about a girl (a virginous one) who substitutes
for her double, a no-account wife with many affairs, and who falls in love with her near-husband and has a hard time keeping
him out of her bed. The real wife is injured and dies (automobile accident with lover). Since the husband will be disinherited
if he is not living with his original wife on his 35th birthday, the girl finally decides to continue the substitution and
not let the husband, who is now deeply in love with her, know about it; and the book ends as he climbs in bed with her. If
he doesn't harm something, he has either been very neglectful of the original wife, or the virgin is different from others
I have known (or perhaps I shouldn't use the plural).
After dinner Joe Boyce took me for a little ride, to cool off. It was 93° today, and humid too.
Joe Boyce said yesterday that he like Roscoe, but he couldn't stand Madeleine. His cousin lives near them, on California corner.
I have just finished writing equations in my paper. Tomorrow I'll take it over to Lamb.
I love you, darling girl. I hope little Willie doesn't bother you, and that you aren't very lonesome for Paddy. I'll be happy
to be back with you. It won't be long now. I love you, dearest & most beautiful little rascal. When I come home I'll take
all your clothes off you and find some places to caress you that you don't know about yet!
Your own adoringLinus
[Filed as 1932x.05.16.LP]
- AHP writes cheque to: Mr. Fairbanks amount $16
- LP. The nature of the chemical bond. IV. The energy of single bonds and the relative electronegativity of atoms. Journal of the American Chemical Society 54: 3570-3582. Received for publication 1932-05-18; published 1932-09-05.
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[Letter written to Ava Helen, no envelope included in mylar]
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
May 18, 1932. 230 P.M.
Dearest Ava Helen:
I love you very much, dearest little girl. Soon I'll be home again with you. Yesterday afternoon I received nice letters
from you and Linus. I'll write to him tonight. I'm glad Peter is getting along so well, and that Dr McMillan thinks you
are well, and that the baby is small and may be a girl.
I received a letter from Dr Noyers, saying I had 10 000 a year for 2 years, to be probably renewed for 2 more. He said he
had talked with Dickinson and fixed up his finances. I suppose giving him more for the summer. Also the enclosed letter came
from Uncle Jim.
I went to the Backers for dinner last night, taking them some flowers. Mrs Bacher is representative for a literary firm,
selling people's manuscripts to magazines'. She is very interesting, I think. The Brodes were there too. Did you know that
Bernice went to Ernest's wedding? I read a detective story last night after coming home (till 12 30) and then slept till
9. Then Compton called, and I went to a conference on the new journal. Urey will probably be its editor. Then I had luncheon
with several people. This afternoon I'm going to visit Kistiakowsky. I love you very much. You are the sweetest girl in
the world.
Your ownLinus.
[Filed as 1932x.05.18.LP]
-
Letter from LP to AHP:
[postmarked May 19, 1932 12M Cambridge, Mass.]
[addressee]
Mrs Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Road
Pasadena, Calif.
[stationery from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics]
Wednesday, 10 PM
Dearest little Ava Helen:
I took my paper over to Lamb today (he wasn't in) and then visited Kistiakowsky. He hasn't much money for research, and things
move slowly for him. Also he says that the students show not interest- he and Oscar and Bert give a seminar, all spending
much time, and only one or two students attend. He said he thought I was wise not to have accepted in 1929 and I think so
too.
I have offered Wheland a half-time assistantship at $1000, by mail. I suppose he'll accept it.
Tonight I attended the undergraduate Chem Club dinner & then gave a lecture, having been introduced by Sherrill. I'll be glad
when lecturing is over. Tomorrow I have 3 again.
I'm sure I have had the whooping cough. I hope you have had, too- it might not be good for Linda. I do hope you aren't kept
up too much by Linus and Peter, and that they recover soon. I'm so glad that little Peter is learning so rapidly. I'll be
happy to see him.
I'm sorry about Lena.
I was interested to see the clippings.
The weather has been warm here for two days, but turned cooler today. I hope it doesn't get hot again. I'd like to have a
good vacation with you- to go on a trip to the desert, day. We have lots of fun when we get in a hotel room together on the
way to the desert. Jean Bacher has a nicely illustrated edition of Don Juan, which I may get for us. I've never read it. Perhaps
I could get some pointers on how to treat you from it. I'll think up some new tricks for your especial edification. I hope
you are looking forward to them.
I've thought of an experiment that I'm going to suggest to Roscoe on returning to Pasadena. I find that he had a very good
reputation as a thoroughly reliable investigator.
I love you, darling, and want to hold you tight in my arms, and get close to you. Please remember that soon I'll be home to
you, in less than two weeks. You are the sweetest girl in the world, and I adore you. . .
YourPaddy
[Filed as 1932x.05.18.LP.2]
- Manuscript: Bond Wave Functions and the Spatial Configuration of Molecules, Sixth Lecture, M.I.T. Lectures on Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 19, 1932. [LP Science Box 2.002, Folder
6/LP Speeches 1932s.19]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[stationery from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics]
Thursday, 930 PM
Dearest Ava Helen:
You are a darling. I'm all excited about coming home to you, and I hope that next Thursday comes soon. I wish I were getting
on the Pasadena train instead of the Princeton one. I'm going to stop in New York on Sunday to see Darrow on the way back.
My train leaves at 1045. Joe Boyce is coming soon to take me to the station. I'll be in New York in the morning, and at Princeton
by 927. I'll give two lectures there.
I got through my three lectures all right today. I have only two more to give next week. The two young bridesmaids came to
my lecture this afternoon, adding considerably to the spirit of the affair. John and everyone seemed surprised. They sat with
Joe Boyce and then took tea and stayed for the seminar, Bennett and Harrison speaking on cosmic rays and the 21 foot vacuum
spectrograph, respectively. The talks were interesting. Joe Boyce brought me home at 6 o'clock and we had lunch dinner with
Kohler. Now Joe is at a lecture. I've finished my packing, taking my blue suit & tuxedo. I'm wearing my light suit.
Joe said that Edwin seemed rather uncouth and egotistic, and the other graduate students had put him in his place.
I'm looking forward to seeing Princeton. Yale is surely a beautiful university- far grander than any other I have seen. The
new library cost about $8000000, and is perhaps too grand. There is beautiful iron work and similar detailed work (leaded
windows, etc) in the Gothic buildings. They have many student houses too.
I've offered Wheland a half-time job at $1000, and haven't heard yet from him. I'm thinking of offering Kirkwood (now in Munich
as International Fellow) $2000 full time. He is a student of Keyes, and has worked with Slater. I haven't ever met him, however.
He is young (23, I think) and married. His father is well-to-do.
I do hope Linus and Peter aren't keeping you awake. You must get a trained nurse if they do. I'll soon be home to help you,
sweetheart. I love you more than anything else in the world. I've kept so busy that I haven't been very lonesome- not so bad
as in Berkeley. Everyone liked my afternoon lecture today.
Your own Linus
[Filed as 1932x.05.19.LP]
- Letter from G. N. Lewis to LP RE: Encloses for a letter from Professor W. A. Noyes and his reply to it. [Filed under: G. N.
Lewis Correspondence, Box #216]
- Letter from Gilbert N. Lewis to W. A. Noyes RE: Reports that he feels the Publishers of the Monograph Series have made a mistake
by letting his book go off print at a time when it still had a large annual sale. [Filed under: G. N. Lewis Correspondence,
Box #216]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[no envelope]
[handwritten on cream stationary]
Saturday, 9 AM
Dearest sweetheart:
I'm full of love for you. If I were home with you we'd get into bed and stay all day, resting quietly of course, wearing three
pairs of pajamas. I'll bet that I'll have some new tricks to show you when I get to you - you'd better be worried about what
they are.
Yesterday morning Joe Morris met me at the train, with Edwin. I talked to Taylor, & to Eyring, & had lunch with Taylor, E.,
Smyth (whom you met at Buffalo) & [blank space]. Then I talked to Smyth, went to see Zener, and gave a well-attended (80 about)
lecture at 445. Then we went on a picnic to Washington's Crossing on the Delaware - men only, Taylor, Eyring, Condon, Albert
Sherman, Edwin, Morris, & a couple of others. It was fun. They insisted (Condon especially) on returning by a way so that
I could see where the Lindbergh Baby was found. I think the Chem. dept. here is pretty good. Albert is their best graduate
student. He will get $1400 next year, $700 of which is for his board & room at the graduate college.
Then I went to Bob & Angy's, staying till 12 (from 10). Their little Duncan, 4 yrs old, seems nice, at least when he's asleep.
I had a good talk with them. They were very friendly & seemed to want us to come & see them. They are quite well pleased with
Princeton now, though they weren't at first. Bob said he'd prefer to be in Pasadena, though. He doesn't like Michal. He said
he quarreled with Bell when in Europe.
I didn't sleep very well, the bed being very hard. If you had been her I'd have slept on top of you, guarding against falling
off by the use of a dowel. I adore you, cutie. I'll give you a good kiss when I get home, and also one on the mouth.
I must lecture nowYour ownLinus
[Filed as 1932x.05.21.LP]
- Letter from Karl K. Darrow, Bell Telephone Laboratories to LP RE: Darrow defines the stochastic hypotheses for LP from 1909
edition of Alexander Smith's Inorganic Chemistry. [Filed under D: Individual Correspondence, Box #87]
- Manuscript: The Energetics of Molecular Rearrangements, No Location, May 23, 1932. [LP Speeches 1932s.20]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[Envelope address:]
Mrs. Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Rd.
Pasadena, Calif.
[Postmark]
2 CAMBRIDGE
MAY 23
230 PM
1932
MASS.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
BERKELEY
Monday at 10 AM[May 23, 1932]Dearest girly:
There wasn't any letter here for me last night; perhaps there is one at Tech. But one came this morning. I'm glad Liny and
Petey haven't caught the whooping cough badly, and I hope you aren't working too hard. Will you be glad to have me with you?
I'll be very good to you always, for you are such a sweet little wife.
I do hope things don't go too badly with Ransperger. I hope the boys don't kill each other off before I get back; but I don't
know just what I can do about Wilson.
Linus'es [sic] comments seem to be very penetrating and clever. I'll be glad to see him and Peter too.
I hope you'll keep your little baby with you until I come home, for I'd like to see him again. I'll stir him up a bit too
- with the practice he will have he should make a fine sorcerer's assistant, who gets in a basket through which swords are
afterwards thrust. I love you, sweet little darling.
Last night the porter broke the handle on my bag. I'll have it repaired soon.
Tonight I am lecturing at Harvard, at 8 o'clock. I hope everyone likes the lecture. . . I adore you, sweet Ava Helen. You
are the cutest girl in the world, and the best little wife that there ever was.
Your ownLinus
[Filed as 1932x.05.23.LP]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
L Pauling [Handwritten]
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CAMBRIDGE A. MASS.
[Envelope address:]
Mrs. Linus Pauling1245 Arden Rd.Pasadena, Calif.
[Postmark]
CAMBRIDGE MASS
MAY 24
6 - PM
1932
[Letter]
Monday night at 12[May 23, 1932]
Dearest little sweetheart:
I love you, little darling. Only three days from now I'll be on the way to you. You are my own sweet little wife. Do you
like me? Today I prepared my Harvard lecture, had my bag repaired, mailed the mattress cover and Peter's rompers to you,
and attended the Harvard physics colloquium, at which Kistiakowsky talked. Then I had dinner with Kohler, + gave my lecture.
Everyone seemed interested, and there was considerable discussion. We went to Conant's house afterwards and talked till
11. Conant is a very interesting man. Mrs Conant is to come back from the hospital this week-end. Lamb asked if I would
review Van Vleck's new book, he having requested that I do so. I bought today two second-hand books by Thomas Smith (One
being “Turnabout”) to read on the train. I have only two more lectures to give now. A letter came from Klug, at Carleton
College, who didn't receive a N.R. Fellowship, but wants to come anyway to work with me. He is married. I wrote that he
could come if he wanted to. We shall have a large group next year. I hope we get some good work done. I am anxious to get
to Pasadena and begin work. Shall we go to the beach for a while later in the summer? I think it would be fun. Do you love
your Paddy? Will you be glad to see me? . . . Have you been happy, or are you thinking bad thoughts about me? I adore you.
Your Linus
- AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $3.74
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[envelope from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge A, Mass]
[addressed to:] Mrs. Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Road
Pasadena, Calif.
Tuesday at 11 PM.
Dearest sweetheart:
I adore you, little darling. I hope you are feeling fine, and that your nice fat tummy doesn't bother you too much. I've read
the book "Turnabout" by Thorne Smith. I'll bring it home for you to read. It is terribly funny - I laughed out loud many
times while reading it. When Tim found he was pregnant, he said "But tell me, don't you know the first thing about childbirth,
Sally?" "Well, I know the first thing," she admitted, "That is, how to go about starting one." Later Tim let a man he didn't
like make advances to him, & then chased him down main street in his underwear with a gun & had him arrested. He said "You
know, Sergeant, a girl's honor is just about the best thing she has, & sometimes its not so good, at that. I always try to
keep my honor spick & span, right up to the minute." "Up to what minute?", said the Sergeant, with justifiable curiosity.
Your nice letter came, with enclosures from Phoebe. Thorfin seems to have been given up as an editor.
I visited the mineralogical museum this afternoon. Tonight we had a free radical dinner, Conant, Kohler, Bent, Kistiakowsky,
& Smallwood. It has just now come to an end. Tomorrow my last lecture will be given. I'll be glad to come home. Wheland has
accepted the job I offered him. I gave my last crystal lecture this morning, & then ordered my Pullman reservations. These
last days are passing very slowly. I wish they would go faster. I love you, and send big kisses.
Linus
- Manuscript: The Magnetic Moments of Molecules and Complex Ions, Seventh Lecture, M.I.T. Lectures on Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 25, 1932. [LP Science Box 2.002, Folder
6/LP Speeches 1932s.21]
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[Envelope return address:]
L Pauling [handwritten]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge A, Mass.
[Envelope addressed to:]
Mrs Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Rd
Pasadena, Calif.
Air Mail
[Post mark:]
BOSTON, MASS. A
MAY 25
6-PM
1932
Wednesday, 11 AM
[May 25, 1932]
Dearest sweetheart:
You are my sweet little wife, and I love you with all my heart. I'll be the happiest paddy in the world when I get home to
you next Monday at 740. I'm glad that I'm coming on the same train you came on.
After our dinner last night + after writing to you I went to bed + slept till 930 this morning. I dreamt a great deal — some
way there were many blankets + things to pack which I couldn't get in the trunk, then I had to take another train + couldn't
cath it, + so on — all about traveling home to you. The enclosed picture shows that your close-calls at missing trains in
Boston + Chicago might have been worse.
This morning I've corrected some problems I gave the students in Crystal Structure. I'll go down to the Institute now. I
wish tomorrow would soon come. I have one lecture to give, at 430 this afternoon, in place of my usual Thursday lecture.
I adore you, little sweetheart. When I come home on Monday you'd better w.y.o.d. [sic], but even if you don't events won't
be altered.
Your ownLinus
[Enclosure: comic (from the New Yorker?) showing a woman running to catch a train, signaling a conductor to wait, with only
her undergarments on, slip over her arm, pantyhose at her ankles, dress and hat under her other arm, and several passengers
and conductors on the platform laughing at her. A sign over the door she's running out of reads “CHEMINS DE FER DE L'ETAT/RELAIS-TOILETTE
DOUCHES”]
“Le Signal du Départ.—Le Sourire.”
[Filed as 1932x.05.25.LP]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[written on Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics letterhead]
[envelope from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge A. Mass.]
[envelope addressed to:] Mrs Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Rd
Pasadena, Calif.
Wednesday at noon
Dearest Ava Helen:
Your letter saying I had written came to the Institute. I think you must not have kept count of my letters, for I have written
every day, and often twice in a day. Of course when you get three or four letters in one day you can expect some days to go
by without any.
I hope today will go by quickly, & tomorrow too. You are such a sweet girl. I do hope that Liny and Petey don't make you work
too hard. I wish I were home with you, little darling. I'd hold you on my lap and kiss you and make you feel happy. I'll be
glad to see a new little baby, too, and I hope she looks like you. I think three children is about enough for us, don't you?
You are such an adorable little wife. You are my most important interest & happiness in life. We shall always have lots of
fun together. I like traveling with you, or staying at home with you.
Your own husband,Linus
[corner end of paper cut off right up to his closing]
[Filed as 1932x.05.25.LP.2]
- Letter from LP to AHP:
[written on Faculty Club, Harvard University letterhead]
[envelope is post marked May 26, 1932, Boston, Mass.]
[envelope is from the Faculty Club, Harvard University]
L Pauling [written above addressee]
[envelope addressed to:] Mrs Linus Pauling
1245 Arden Rd
Pasadena, Calif.
Wednesday, 3 PM
Dearest Ava Helen:
My train leaves in a little more than an hour from now, and I am all excited about coming to you. I'm all in a sweat, as a
matter of fact; but this may be due to the temperature of over 90°, combined with high humidity. This morning I took off all
my clothes before packing my trunk, and dripped perspiration too. I filled the trunk full - it is very heavy - and my bag
is stuffed too. Yesterday was the hottest May 25th they had ever recorded.
Last night I went with Joe Boyce & the Brodes to the Harrisons for a very nice dinner, followed by singing from Gilbert &
Sullivan. Even I sang a little with the others. At 1015 Helen called & asked me to lunch, & when over the phone I said “I'll
come over at twelve, Helen”, everyone laughed, & later said “Isn't it time you started now - you mustn't be late”. I hadn't
seen Helen since the wedding. I had lunch with her & John & took her some flowers, also sending some to Mrs Conant. John &
Helen are going to Europe, third class on the Bremen, round trip $130 from Boston (i.e. fare to New York included 0. Helen
is worried about the new PhD's who haven't jobs.
Mrs [sic] Harrison seemed nice. She talked some about lack of money, it is true.
The Boyce's mother has moved here to live with him. They have been living mainly on money given them by his uncle, a steel
man in Pittsburgh, who, however, has now lost most of his money; so I'm afraid Joe will not get married unless he finds a
rich girl.
A nice letter - your last - arrived this morning. I was glad to get it. I've decided that when I get to you I'll show you
that a hotel room isn't necessary for the tricks I know. Your education is going to be rapid for a few days. What do you think
of that? You might try to think up a pleasant variation too, to surprise me with. I adore you, little darling wife, and I'm
very lonesome for you, and glad that soon I'll be on the way home. You are such a lovely girl, and such a good companion for
this paddy. I adore you, you darling.
Your ownLinus
[Filed as 1932x.05.25.LP.3]
- AHP writes cheque to: Mr. Boersma amount $2.50
- AHP writes cheque to: Piggly Wiggly amount $10
- AHP writes cheque to: Piggly Wiggly amount $5
- Telegram from LP to AHP:
[Telegram letterhead:]
Patrons are requested to favor the company by criticism and suggestion concerning its service
[written in a little square in the left corner:]
Class Of Service
This is a full-rate
Telegram or Cablegram
unless its deferred character is
indicated by a suitable sign above
or preceding the address.
WESTERN UNION
Newcomb Carlton, President
J.C. Willever, First Vice-President
[written in a little square in the right corner:]
SIGNS
DL= Day Letter
NM= Night Message
NL= Night Letter
LCO= Deferred Cable
CLT= Cable Letter
WLT= Week-End Letter
1932 MAY 28 PM 11 20
The filing time as shown in the date line on full-rate telegrams and day letters, and the time of receipt at destination as
shown on all messages, is STANDARD TIME.
Received at Main Office, 26 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Calif. Tel. Colorado 4321
WESTERN UNION GIFT ORDERS SOLVE THE PERPLEXING QUESTION OF WHAT TO GIVE
SA421 29 NL=DODGECITY KANS 28
MRS LINUS PAULING=
1245 ARDEN RD PASADENA CALIF=
WITH JOURNEY UNEVENTFUL IMPATIENCE AND ANTICIPATION WAX WITH THE LINITUDE I RECOMMEND VAN AND FUCHS IF IMAGINATION LAGS CONCERNING
SUITABLE RECEPTION LOVE TO LINUS PETER ZAUBERLEHRILNG AND ESPECIALLY YOU=
LINUS
[Written in the bottom left corner with pencil:]
Wak 8010
aad Do 755a Debi [?]
[Filed as 1932x.05.28.LP]
- Telegram from LP to AHP:
[Telegram letterhead:]
Patrons are requested to favor the company by criticism and suggestion concerning its service
[written in a little square in the left corner:]
Class Of Service
This is a full-rate
Telegram or Cablegram
unless its deferred character is
indicated by a suitable sign above
or preceding the address.
WESTERN UNION
Newcomb Carlton, President
J.C. Willever, First Vice-President
[written in a little square in the right corner:]
SIGNS
DL= Day Letter
NM= Night Message
NL= Night Letter
LCO= Deferred Cable
CLT= Cable Letter
WLT= Week-End Letter
1932 MAY 28 PM 11 20
The filing time as shown in the date line on full-rate telegrams and day letters, and the time of receipt at destination as
shown on all messages, is STANDARD TIME.
Received at Main Office, 26 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Calif. Tel. Colorado 4321
WESTERN UNION GIFT ORDERS SOLVE THE PERPLEXING QUESTION OF WHAT TO GIVE
[The paper attached to the telegram reads:]
FATHER'S DAY
June 19th
Surprise him with
a telegram straight
from the heart-
SA126 14=HR HOLBROOK ARIZ 29 245P
MRS HELEN PAULING=
1245 ARDEN ROAD PASADENA CALIF=
INFERENCE OF UNACCOMPLISHED PORTURITION GRATIFYING
ANTICIPATE APPROACHING UNWONTED ACTIVITY DIMINISH
ZAUBERLEHRINGS BIRTH TRAUMA LOVE=
LINUS.
[Filed as 1932x.05.29.LP]
- Linda Helen Pauling born
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
|
