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Pauli sends Bohr a copy of his article for the Sommerfeld-Festschrift with a few comments. He writes about Kronig's work on band-spectra. He also talks about his good cooperation with Scherrer and about his plans for the vacation.

Pauli talks about the data for a planned conference in Copenhagen.

Pauli welcomes Bohr to London. When they learned about the events in Denmark, they were afraid for him and his wife and sons. They were glad to receive good news concerning Bohr and Harald. They do not know anything about the family, but hope that they are also safe in England. Pauli himself feels very well in Princeton and belongs to the few people in the world who can continue their scientific work during the war. He is a bit lonely, but he has a Swiss pupil and is expecting a Chinese student soon. His papers deal with the theory of the meson-field, and the last one is connected with the work of Rosenfeld and Møller. Life is very quiet for Pauli. After the war he will have to make difficult decisions about where he will live then.

Pauli just read in the newspapers that the Germans in Denmark have surrendered, and he sends all his good wishes and congratulations on this event. He does not know whether Bohr is still in the USA, but if so, he would like to meet him in Princeton, New York or elsewhere. It is very important for him to make decisions for his future and it would be of invaluable help for him to talk with Bohr. His relations to the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zürich (ETHZ) are probably more complicated than he thinks.

Pauli talks about questions concerning the "Dialectica" issue. He also writes about recent progress in theoretical work on electrodynamics and mesonic problems. He reminds Bohr to not forget Sommerfeld's 80th birthday on the 5th December 1948.

Pauli thanks Bohr for his letter of November 26. He is expecting now almost every day the appearance of the issue of "Dialectica". He is not sure whether it was really a good idea to send him some manuscripts by Born.

Pauli has waited quite a while since receiving Bohr's letter of February 8, because he hoped to be able to say something on Schwinger's answer to his long letter. Pauli did not receive any answer. One of Schwinger's pupils contacted Pauli, from which he has the impression that Schwinger takes the matter seriously. Meanwhile Pauli and Villars have completed the calculations mentioned at the end of of Pauli's letter to Schwinger. He has almost no doubts on the correctness of his results for the electron magnetic moment, although the argument is somewhat different from his own. Villars and Pauli will send a joint paper with all their calculations to the Einstein issue of the Rev. of Mod. Physics which is edited by Pais. He also says that the work on quantum electrodynamics in their institute is proceeding well.

Pauli thanks Bohr for his last letter and for the enclosed page by Rosenfeld, which he is now returning. He agrees that there is an elementary error on this page, which he explains further.

Pauli writes about to their talk on the connection between the concepts of "God" and "knowing" or "knowledge". It is true that such a connection exists in the official "confession" of the Christian Churches, but besides it there was always a more hidden tradition of a God who is only dreaming (and also brings forth creation in a kind of dreaming state).

Pauli thanks Bohr for his letter of the 7th August and he is glad to inform him that they got a stipend of 3000 Swiss francs for Alder as a contribution to the costs for his stay in Copenhagen. Pauli hopes that Bohr can get an additional contribution which will enable him to be in Copenhagen for 6 months starting about October the first. Pauli has had interesting ongoing discussions with Møller-Kristensen and with Peierls on the formfactor theories. Like Bohr, Pauli thinks it unlikely that they will make real progress this way, but it seems to Pauli to be of interest to learn a little more about where formally the limitations of these models become obvious. Pauli received from Schrödinger the proofs of a paper (British Journal of Philosophy of Science) of which Pauli was unable to make any sense. It is in a way even more empty than Bohm's attempts to resume de Broglies old wave theory.