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March
  • Photo: Ava Helen Pauling wearing a scarf, standing with an unidentified woman. "AHP Corona del Mar ~1935" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #3499] [LP Photo Box, 1935i.17]
  • Reprint: Nielsen HH. The Rotation of Molecules in Crystals. Journal of Chemical Physics (3): 189-196. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 1]

March 1
  • AHP writes cheque to: American Chemical Society amount $17.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • AHP writes cheque to: American Physical Society amount $14 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company amount $22.67 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • LP writes cheque to: Fortner and Loud amount $33.77 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]

March 4
  • Letter from LP to F.J.M. Stratton and P.G.H. Boswell, General Secretaries of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, RE: Regrets that he is not able to accept their invitation to the Annual Meeting of the Association in September 1935. [Letter from Stratton and Boswell to LP, 2-9-1935] [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.018.39b]

March 6
  • AHP writes cheque to: Dunnings Silk Store amount $19.07 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • LP writes cheque to: Collector of Internal Revenue amount $19.67 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]

March 7

March 11
  • AHP writes cheque to: J. W. Robinson Company amount $9.72 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • Notes and Review RE: "On Hemochromogen and the Relation of Protein to the Properties of the Hemoglobin Molecule" [LP Science Materials RE: The Structure and Properties of Hemoglobin and the Nature of Sickle Cell Anemia, Box 6.007, Folder 1] Notes and Review RE: "The Reactions of Cyanide with Globin Hemochromogen" [LP Science Materials RE: The Structure and Properties of Hemoglobin and the Nature of Sickle Cell Anemia, Box 6.007, Folder 1]

March 12

March 14
  • AHP writes cheque to: Lola Labadie amount $15.12 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $1.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • LP writes cheque to: The Healthcraft Guild amount $2.65 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]

March 15
  • Individual Income Tax Return for Calendar Year 1934 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial box 4.001, Folder 1]
  • Letter from E. Bright Wilson, Jr. to LP, RE: Tells LP that he hasn't done anything with nickel carbonyl since before Christmas and doesn't know which end of the CO groups point inward. Tells LP that he has delayed working on this because he plans to try out the use of electrical circuits to solve the secular equations. Tells LP about the paper he has completed and sent in about the quantum weights of complicated molecules containing identical and equivalent atoms and the papers he has been studying since then. Notifies LP that Prof. Van Vleck said he would write him about trains and hotels. Warns LP that he's going to come across opposition to his quantum-mechanical and empirical calculations of resonance energies. Handwritten note by Bright: "Will you send me reprints since last July?" [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.33]

March 18
  • LP writes cheque to: Herbold's amount $12.81 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]

March 19

March 20
  • AHP writes cheque to: Ruth Huntzinger amount $7 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Company amount $2.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • Letter from E.G. Cox, Chemistry Department at the University of Birmingham, to LP, RE: Asks for reprints of the papers on valency, interatomic distances in crystals, and actual structure determinations from the Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie that LP has published recently. Encloses copies of some of his papers which he feels might be of interest to LP and says that he would appreciate any comments LP has. Discusses his theory of "paired valences" and the compounds he's examined, including a few hand-drawn diagrams. Asks LP what he thinks about the possibilities of the structures for certain bonds. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.018.53]
  • Letter from Odd Hassel to LP RE: Hassel discusses his opinion of the "acid fluoride" question that LP had asked previously. [Filed under: LP Books, 1939b2.2]

March 22  (Salt Lake City, UT)
  • Letter from Edward Mack, Jr. to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, copy to LP RE: Mack withdraws his manuscript on bond angle shifts from consideration for publication. He may try to revise it a more quantitative form in the future. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]

March 25  (Ames, IA)
  • Note from George Rumer to LP RE: Written in German. Unable to translate. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.018.181]

March 26  (Ames, IA)
  • Handwritten note from E. Bright Wilson, Jr., Harvard University Division of Chemistry, to LP, RE: Invites LP to come to the Society of Fellows' dinner on the first Monday night he is in Cambridge and says that he would also like to entertain him that following Saturday. Informs LP that Dr. Kistakowsky will try to get him to talk at one of his Wednesday evening physical chemistry seminars. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.34]

March 29  (Chicago, IL)
  • Letter from Curtis G. Benjamin, Manager of the College Department of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., to LP, RE: Sends him a complimentary copy of a new textbook, "The Structure and Properties of Matter," by H.T. Briscoe, Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University. Discusses the subject of the book. Suggests that LP considers adopting this text if he ever plans on giving a course in Atomic Theories. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.35]
  • The Chemical Bulletin from the Chicago Section announcing LP's lecture on "Modern Structural Chemistry" at 7:45 P. M. at the Stevens Hotel [Filed under LP Biographical: Scrapbooks 6.003.1]

March 30
  • AHP writes cheque to: Lola Labadie amount $15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #1]
  • Minutes from the California Institute of Technology Executive Council Meeting RE: LP's recommendation for appointments was adopted and seconded. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 7]