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August
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Magnetic susceptibility of C6H6, CCl4, etc [by LP and Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 13: 161-166]

August 1
  • AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $15.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Clara Gilchrist amount $7.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Katharine Putnam Crane amount $85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company amount $3.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Star News amount $2.25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Company amount $4.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: State Treasurer of California amount $7.98 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • Letter from LP to Professor C. R. Narayan Rao RE: LP encloses a short papers on the x-ray analysis of crystals which he hopes will be satisfactory for the supplement to Current Science. [Rao's reply: September 8, 1936] [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #340.1]

August 3
  • Letter from D. C. Carpenter to LP RE: Carpenter has sent the reprints of the papers LP requested, June 5, 1936, and informs LP that the papers went through the Journal in fairly good time. [LP Correspondence: Box #57.13, file: (Carpenter, Dwight Chance 1936-1944)]
  • Letter from Edward C. Barrett, Secretary at CIT, RE: Notifies LP that it was voted at meeting of the Executive Council that LP be made Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and that his salary would be raised to $7500 starting September 1, 1936. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.005.61f]
  • Letter from P. P. Ewald to LP RE: Informs LP of his travel plans and asks if he will be at Harvard during the physics lectures. [Filed under: E: Individual Correspondence (Enstrom-Eyering) Box #110.4]

August 7
  • Letter from Alden H. Emery, Speakers' Touring Service, American Chemical Society to LP RE: Requests that LP give talks at the Puget Sound and Washington-Idaho Border Sections. [LP's reply to Emery September 3, 1936] [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
  • Letter from Frank Blair Hanson, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Dr. W. E. Tisdale who is in charge of the Natural Science work of The Rockefeller Foundation will be on the West Coast in the fall to see work that is being supported by the Foundation and would like to visit LP's lab if he will be in Pasadena in the fall. [LP's reply to Hanson August 26, 1936] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 5]

August 8
  • Letter from Ralph W. G. Wyckoff RE: Asks for LP's opinion of Dr. David Harker in terms of his ability, theoretical and experimental. [LP's reply: August 12, 1936] [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.13]

August 9
  • Letter from Thomas S. Chambers to LP RE: Thanks LP for his kind letter of June 8, and expresses his anxiousness to work at the Institute. [Filed under: C: Correspondence, 1921-1957, Box #74.4]

August 10

August 11
  • Letter from Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks to LP RE: Informs LP that he thinks it best for him to prepare the review alone to ensure the correct information is emphasized. Congratulates LP on his aluminum metaphosphate work. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #156.3]

August 12

August 13
  • LP writes cheque to: Clay C. Miller amount $60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • Letter from W. V. Green to LP RE: Introduces Tom Kluge to LP and asks that he advise him as to what endeavor will suit him the best. [Filed under: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #140.1]

August 14
  • Letter from Victor K. LaMer to LP RE: LaMer asks LP to write a letter of recommendation for Cross if he is interested and available for the teaching job in the experimental physical chemistry laboratory. [Filed under: L: Individual Correspondence, Box #212.4]

August 17
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 13: 151-153]

August 18
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 13: 151-153]
  • Letter from Edward C. Barrett to LP, RE: Informs LP that he received his August 10th letter and will present it to the Executive Council when he has a chance. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.005.61h]

August 20

August 21
  • AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Fund amount $36.58 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 13: 151-153]
  • Letter from Robert J. Dery to LP RE: Dery explains that upon talking with LP the other day he has definitely decided to attend the Institute this coming winter. He and wife look forward to moving to Pasadena. [Filed under: D: Correspondence, 1936-1959 Box #98.1]

August 22
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 13: 151-153]
  • Letter from Dr. K. Lark-Horovitz to LP RE: Explains that he was very interested to learn that LP does no agree with his explanation of the intensity anomaly in the electron diffraction pattern of zinc oxide. Asks LP to please explain his argument. [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #165.1]

August 24
  • Letter from O. L. Inman to LP RE: Asks LP if he is interested in undertaking a study on the chlorophyll series, he encloses several reprints of articles regarding this subject. Inman informs LP that he has talked to the Rockefeller Foundation about funding this project. Also, asks LP if anyone in his Lab would be interested in coming to Ohio to carry out the work if the grant is presented. [LP's reply: August 28, 1936] [Filed under: I Correspondence, Box #185.1]

August 26

August 27
  • AHP writes cheque to: Reinhold Publishing Corporation amount $7 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $1.20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Magnetic susceptibility of C6H6, CCl4, etc [by LP and Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 13: 161-166]
  • Letter from Dodson, Richard to LP RE: Thanks LP for allowing him to stay the summer at his house while working with him in the lab. Asks LP to tie up a few loose ends that were left in his hurry to leave, such as paying the laundry man and telephone bill. Suggests to LP that he look into the work of Dr. David L. Drabkin of the University of Pennsylvania and his work of Blood Analysis. [Filed under: D: Individual Correspondence. (Dil-Dyson): Box #96.5]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. C. Frederick Koelsch RE: LP asks for evidence of the radical nature of 2, 3, 6, 7-dibenzanthracene. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200.1]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. David Harker RE: Informs Harker that the bill for his article has been paid. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #151.10]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. William E. Vaughan RE: LP regrets to inform Vaughan that the second sample of allene has also been broken during shipment. He apologizes for the trouble and will not ask for another sample. [Filed under: V: Individual Correspondence, Box #425.3]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. William H. Strain RE: LP sends separately reprints of his work on hemoglobin. Goes on to explain that as soon as he has completed a reasonable survey of the field he will prepare for publication in a journal such as Physiological Reviews. Regrets to say that before Professor Noyes death, he had made plans to build a biochemistry department, but for the time being, it has been delayed. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377.6]
  • Letter from LP to G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. RE: LP asks for a copy of Structure Factor Tables by Dr. Kathleen Lonsdale. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.3]
  • Letter from LP to Messrs. Beevers and Lipson RE: Thanks them for the strips he has received and the blue prints of the boxes as well. In return LP encloses recent crystal structure reprints. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.3]
  • Letter from Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Sciences-Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Weaver recently visited the Kettering Laboratory at Antioch College under Dr. O. I. Inman. Inman hopes to do work with chlorophyl A and B: natural and related porphyrin studies of the chemical component. He wants a scientist trained by LP to help with this work. Weaver would like LP's opinion on the practicality and feasibility of such a study at Antioch. [LP's reply to Weaver September 2, 1936] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 5]

August 28
  • AHP writes cheque to: A & P amount $5 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Edwin Porter amount $16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Charles C. Rainey RE: LP reports that the complex anions mentioned in his previous letter cannot be assigned ionic radii because they do not have spherical symmetry. [Rainey's letter: August 12, 1936] [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #340.1]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. D. C. Carpenter RE: LP states that the reprints arrived safely and thanks his for sending them. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #57.13, file: (Carpenter, Dwight Chance 1936-1944)]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. O. L. Inman RE: Thanks Inman for the reprints and comments that he would be very interested in this work however, he has thought about it himself and believes that the cost would simply not outweigh the benefits of such a project. However, if Inman wants to continue with this project, LP will be happy to recommend a trained man to help with this work. [Inman's letter: August 24, 1936] [Filed under: I: Correspondence, Box #185.1]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks RE: Informs Dr. Sterling that he too has not heard anything about Smyth's manuscript but hopes to hear something soon. LP has asked Brockway to send several reprints about his electron diffraction work. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box 156.3]

August 29

August 31
  • LP writes cheque to: A & P amount $10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]