August 4, 1942

Professor Hugh S. Taylor

Department of Chemistry

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey

Dear Professor Taylor:

Today I had the pleasure of talking with Father Lourdu Yeddanapalli, whom I had remembered being at Princeton. With only one day remaining before my scheduled departure for Pittsburgh, and with many chores to be done in that time, I was unable to talk with Father Lourdu very long; but I arranged to have one of our staff members show him about the Laboratories and discuss with him the work which is going on here, apart from the war work. This meant that the discussion was restricted almost entirely to immunochemistry, since that is the one field of fundamental research which we are continuing to prosecute vigorously.

Father Lourdu said that you had spoken to him about the state of my health. I am pleased to report that my condition has improved a great deal during the past fifteen months. The attack of nephritis has settled into a chronic stage, with, however, indications of continued slow improvement. I am pleased to be getting along so well, and to be able to continue my work with essentially no interruption. A decrease in the number of hours which I put in in my laboratory and office is compensated by my having a dictaphone beside the couch in my study at home. I am now putting in the major part of my time on war problems, and am leaving to spend the rest of the summer on war work at Pittsburgh and other places in the East.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

LP:jr