Oxford, England

Jan. 31, 1948

Professor G. W. Beadle

Kerckoff Laboratory

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena 4, California

Dear Beets:

I have been getting along well here at Oxford-getting work done on some new ideas on molecular structure. We are all settled now in a house (an apartment, rather), and are enjoying life. The weather has not been bad - not cold, but rather wet.

I am writing to you especially now about an idea that turned up in conversation with Mirsky in New York. He pointed out to me that there is no possibility whatever that Northrop would go to New York to work in the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory there, and that, of course, the Rockefeller Institute is committed to continue to support him and his work until he reaches retiring age, a few years from now. The idea is that if we could make suitable laboratory space available to him and Dunitz and whatever other people might be working with Northrop, then the Rockefeller Institute would without doubt continue to pay the salaries of both men and perhaps other assistants for Northrop, and might possible even contribute to the laboratory expenses - there is a reasonable chance that Northrop's regular budget would be continued until his retirement.

I think that it is quite probable that Northrop would be enough interested to live in Pasadena, under circumstances that please him, to accept such a position, and that the Rockefeller Institute would continue support. Would you look into this matter, talk it over with Leo, and take whatever action seems indicated.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

[Linus Pauling]

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