Activity Listings
- Letter from LP to Dr. Norman Davidson, RE: LP has agreed to provide a set of answers to problems in "General Chemistry." He requests that Dr. Davidson collect a set of answers to all the problems that are assigned ot the students and mail them to LP in Oxford. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b4.6.]
- Letter from Dr. Ralph P. Seward, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Penn State to John A. Behnke, W. H. Freeman and Company RE: Says he will be happy to send him his manuscript, welcomes suggestions, believes the current texts have more information than students can assimilate in a year-long course and explains why he has delayed thermodynamics in the text. Plans to use the text in a one-year course at Penn State and explains the target group of the text. (Attached to Freeman's letter) [Letter from Freeman to LP September 26, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.5]
- Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP doesn't think he should attempt to prepare a toned down version of General Chemistry. He has not yet decded whether he should prepare a "liberal arts" chemistry in the near future. He agrees with Freeman's recommendation of Arthur Scott as author of the other elementary text in the series. [Filed under LP Books, 1950b.1]
- Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP is collecting a set of answers to the problems in his book, "General Chemistry," but trusts that they won't be necessary until next spring, after he's had a chance to review them and let his students check them. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b4.6.]
- Letter from W. H. Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Company to LP RE: Sends word that Behnke has found a manuscript for an organic chemistry text from Cassidy and English of Yale, says that they have not yet found a publisher, and wants him to look it over for their series. [Letter from LP to Freeman September 26, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.5]
- Note from Morton A. Klotz, Department of Chemistry, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, RE: Sends a sample of cyclooctatetraene at the request of Professor Mark. [Letter from LP to Klotz September 29, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #200.12, file:(K: Correspondence, 1947)]
- Writes cheque to "Frank H.E. Wood," $25.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Finance, Box 4.018, Folder 18.2]
- Writes cheque to “Abbey - rental of chairs, umbrella, etc” $9.50 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.5, item 2]
- Writes cheque to “Rusts Rental of lawers?” $7.69 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.5, item 2]
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