Letter from Peter Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. October 4, 1954. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• AHP writes cheque to AHP amount $17.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $15.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: American Indian Fund amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $4.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Coleman Chamber Music Association amount $16.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Director of Internal Revenue amount $10.36 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Eleanor Roosevelt Fund amount $2.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Elizabeth Gillette amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Hoelscher's, Inc. amount $100.94 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Jean Poole amount $18.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Modern Color, Inc. amount $13.39 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc. amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. amount $12.23 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Star News amount $7.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Poppy Cleaners and Dyers amount $11.52 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern Counties Gas Co. amount $3.85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: William Taylor amount $181.36 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from A. Schwartz to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.124]
• Letter from F. Joliot-Curie, President of the World Federation of Scientific Workers to LP RE: Joliot-Curie outlines goals recognized by the Executive Congress of the Federation [Filed under J: Individual Correspondence 1954, Box #190.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Fred J. Allen RE: enclosed letter to W. H. Freeman concerning Chapters 6 and 7 of the second edition of College Chemistry, including proposal for a new Chapter 7. [LP's letter to Dr. Fred. J. Allen October 14, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to AHP RE: Linda has returned; Peter and she are settling into the flat. Peter does not think that he can be a teacher or writer. He thinks that Crellin should go into medicine as pure science is too difficult. Peter likes Jim Watson although "he may be getting conceited" and Francis Crick is back and "talks as ever." [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  4 October 1954

  Dear Mamma,

  Thank you for your letters. I am sorry not to have written. I was taking x-ray photographs madly and then a two week course on computors, I am flat painting now; Linda has returned. Soon I must take more photographs. We live in a semi-basement. The kitchen is quite nice, with an immense fireplace about 4ft high and 6 ft wide, which is ruined by having a boiler (coal) in it, but we are painting it. I sleep in the sitting room, which is about 15x15, white, ugly. It has a tile fire place which is disgusting. The ceiling is too low. Linda has a little bedroom.

  I am not sure I can be groomed to teach chemistry or write a books. I could lecture I think on elementary chemistry, but I cannot now at least write. Besides, what about Norman Davidson who is a punk lecturer but is permanent? Besides I am not sure I want to. Thank you for writing me though.

  It is wise for Crellin to do Medicine. It is too difficult to do pure science. He might not be smart enough and the goal is too great. He need not do pure science but write or administer or advise, and he might not suffer the way I do but it is still difficult, too difficult I think.

  I shall get a dark grey flannel suit soon, I think. I need some new clothes. You remember that grey blue striped suit (a non zig-zag herring bone) suit we bought in New York? It is very nice, but not pure wool and is getting worn.

  The college will allow me to eat supper at home. The rules require eating in the Hall, but I fixed it.

  I like Jim Watson, though I can see he may be getting conceited. He adds to Cambridge, though. Francis Crick is back. Talks as ever.

  Marriette is acting up. Bob bounces around Europe, though I have not seen him. The Fowler's are here. We have a lot of fun together. He has a Guggenheim and a Fulbright!

  Much love,

  Peter

• Letter from Prof. Dr. E Thilo to LP RE: Thanking LP for the copies of The Nature of the Chemical Bond and General Chemistry [LP's letter September 8, 1954; LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #407.3]