Activity Listings
- AHP writes cheque to "Pasadena Corset Shop," $19.21. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial, Box 4.015, Folder 3]
- Letter from A.N. Winchell, Chairman of the Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin to LP RE: Says there is a possibility they might wish to employ an x-ray crystallographer and wish to have his suggestions for suitably trained men. [Filed under LP Correspondence: 443.8]
- Letter from C.R. Hoover to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter and is pleased with the topic he has chose for the lecture. Asks LP if he needs any further help in planning for the meetings. [LP's letter: April 3, 1940] [Filed under: LP Speeches, 1940s.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Eugene Eyster, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, RE: Responds that they are all pleased that he has accepted the fellowship at Caltech, and it will be fine for him to start on October 1st. Adds that he will not be at the Cincinnati meeting, so they will have to discuss Eyster's potential trip to New York through letters over the summer. Notes that Eyster will be free to work as much as he wants in spectroscopy. [Letters from Eyster to LP March 22, 1940, June 20, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #110.7, file:(Eyster, Eugene, 1940, 1942-1943)]
- Letter from LP to Mr. Carrol C. Sachs RE: Regrets that there are no more reprints of the article on electron diffraction by Dr. L. O. Brockway, but that it can be found in Review of Modern Physics. [Letter from Carrol C. Sachs to LP April 1, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #377.10]
- Letter from LP to Mr. Edward C. Barrett, CIT RE: Requests that requisitions on the Rockefeller Fund, Molecular Structure, Rockefeller Fund, Apparatus and Supplies, and the Punched Card Fund signed by Dr. Sturdivant be honored. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box #1.029 file 29.1]
- Letter from LP to Mr. Hertenstein, Superintendent Buildings and Grounds RE: Requests that Mr. Evans, and Mr. Hennick, both janitors be removed from service. The two men have a habit of spending time sitting in the dark in a seminar room, which was called to LP's attention when he attempted to have a meeting in the seminar room with President Conant from Harvard and some department members and found the janitors there. [Filed under California Institute of Technology: Materials re: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1933-1963, No Date: Box #1.024, Folder 24.8]
- Letter from LP to Professor Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of American Chemical Society. RE: Has read the manuscript by Dr. Libby. Is of the opinion that he needs to go over the manuscript and correct it. Makes suggestions. Suggests that Libby publish on manganese now. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1925-1942: Box #14.002 Folder #2.5]
- Letter from LP to Professor Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of American Chemical Society. RE: Has read the paper by Senti and Harker. Hesitates to recommend that the paper not be published until further work is done. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1925-1942: Box #14.002 Folder #2.5]
- Letter from Ralph Beebe to LP RE: Informs him of the schedule and locations for LP's lectures while at Amherst in May. Also mentions information on lodgings and formal dinners LP is to attend. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #27.4, file:(Beebe, Ralph A., 1939-1940)]
- Telegram from LP to W. S. Schaefer, Cornell University Press. RE: Giving permission, and also telling him to tell the publishers to correct something in their second edition of the book. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1939b.2]
- Telegram to LP from W. S. Schaefer, Cornell University Press. RE: Requesting permission to select the cover of their book, to save a week before going to publisher. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1939b.2]
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April
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