23 June 1953
Dear Peter:
I am writing to tell you the information available now.
First, we have a hotel in Stuttgart. It is Hotel Ketterer, Marienstrasse 3. Tel. 94151. Two rooms, 3 beds. It is reserved for 2 July to 4 July. If you are not going to arrive on 2 July, I suggest that you drop a line to them, telling them to hold one room and 2 beds over night, but not 1 room and 1 bed until the next day.
We arrive in Stuttgart on Swiss Air 205 from Frankfurt at 7:45 P.M., and we shall go directly to the hotel.
As for the automobile, I have not received any reply to my letter to Porsche. I have not cabled them, and I think on 3 July we shall have to go around and find out what the situation is. We might have trouble in getting a car from them. Perhaps we can pick one up from one of the dealers. It is too bad that this plan seems to have gone awry.
We are looking forward anxiously to seeing you, and to going on our trip through Germany with you.
I may say that there is one place, Heidelberg, where we stop for three days and where you are to occupy a room, with twin beds, together with Professor Karush. In other places, however, you have a separate room.
We are having a hard time getting everything done before leaving. This week we have a workshop for freshman chemistry teaching, which is keeping me busy. Also I have a lot of proof to correct.
Much love from
[Linus Pauling]
Dictated by Linus Pauling
Signed in his absence: W
June
23, 1953
