Balliol College

Oxford, England

March 27, 1948

Mr. Edward Crellin

1530 San Pascual Street

Pasadena, California

Dear Mr. Crellin:

We are continuing to have a wonderful time in Oxford, and we often think about you. How that spring has come here, and the weather is more like that in Pasadena, I myself find that I think about you more and more often, and wish that I could just come up the street in order to have a talk with you.

We are all well now, although Crellin was sick for a week or so with a bad cold, and I have been suffering from a cold too. However, this is Easter vacation, so that it caused no inconvenience to anyone for me to stay home in bed, and now I am feeling well again.

Ava Helen and I had a very nice trip about ten day ago. We went to Birkenhead on the train, and stayed for a day and night with Lord and Lady Leverhulme. Then we stayed for an couple of days with Dr. Hampson and his wife. Dr. Hampson had studied with me for two years, about ten years ago, when he was a Commonwealth Fellow. I spoke before the scientific people at the big Lever Brothers Port Sunlight plant, giving their annual research lecture, and then we went over to Liverpool, and I talked to the Liverpool branch of the Chemical Society.

The spring flowers are blooming in all of the gardens in Oxford, and the flowering trees are in bloom now too, so that the city looks beautiful.

A week from today we shall all leave Oxford for Paris, where we are going to stay for two weeks. We are looking forward to this experience.

With much love from all of us, I am

Yours sincerely,

[Linus Pauling]

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