14 July 1952

Mr. W. H. Freeman

549 Market Street

San Francisco 5, California

Dear Bill:

At the last moment we have been notified by the State Department that a passport is being given me, and we are accordingly leaving for Europe day after tomorrow.

I have prepared a revised manuscript for the first 20 chapters of GENERAL CHEMISTRY, except that the gas-law chapter, Chapter 14, has not yet been revised.

I have not had an opportunity to cheek the final typescript of a good bit of Chapters 1 to 20. Also, I have not had an opportunity to check the new figures that Roger Hayward has drawn or is drawing, However, I have asked Mrs. Wulf to mail the manuscript of the twenty chapters and the new drawings to you.

Because of the rush, I have not had tine to cut out the old figures that are being used in the new edition, and paste them in the proper place in the manuscript. I know that this would be a great convenience to the reader, but I think that you (and he) can surmise what figure in COLLEGE CHEMISTRY or the first edition of GENERAL CHEMISTRY (most of them are in COLLEGE CHEMISTRY, except those that are just being drawn) is being referred to at a given place in the text.

We shall return to Pasadena on September 15. I shall not try to get anything done on the manuscript until then, but I shall pick up information about the revision by talking with people in France and England. I trust that you will have your comments, and the comments of your reader, on the first twenty chapters ready when I get back, and I think that I should be able to finish the revision rather quickly. I am especially anxious to have your opinion of the new chapters, 3 and 7.

I hope that this change in my plans does not interfere seriously with your schedule.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W