Pauli gives his reactions to Schwinger's work, news about Heitler and Staub and lecture plans.

Pauli thanks Jauch for Jauch's and Rohrlich's book and says that he likes it. He gives some comments on a few passages. He writes about recent publications on field quantization.

Pauli thinks that Lopes' results on the interaction energy-matrix in momentum space are correct. He comments on a paper by Schönberg. He agrees to Jauch's plan to work on the life-time of isobars. He writes about recent results of investigations in Sweden.

Pauli mentions the recent results about the magnetic moment of the free neutron and adds a lengthy theoretical comment to this.

Pauli is looking forward to reading Jauch's forthcoming book on electrodynamics. He would prefer not to read the book in the proof-state, for this means a certain responsibility.

Jost is interested in Janner's problem. Pauli is going to lecture on it.

Pauli suggests a dissertation on H-theorem in quantum statistics and he summarizes Fierz latest work on it.

Pauli has returned from the USA and he plans to consider Janner's work.

Pauli replies to a letter of the 25 July 1954. He explains his critical attitude to ontology but he conceeds that ontology reflects an intrinsic need of man to overcome the tension between the "Internal" and the "External".

Pauli writes about the competition between Hulthén's theory Review of Modern Physics (1945), Vol. 17 and Wentzel's "strong coupling" case as explanation for neutron-proton scattering.