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• Letter from Joy Pepper, Executive Director, National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, to LP. Thanks LP for securing statements for the Conference. Informs that the conference was successful. Asks that LP agree to speak for the organization in the very near future. LP Peace: Box 4.013, Folder 13.4
• Pamphlet “The American Chemical Society: What it is and does.” [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]
• Record of the Distribution of Personnel of National Committee by Local Sections within each of the six geographical districts, with summary. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.7]
• Various newspaper articles typed on one sheet of paper regarding the denial of a VISA for Rev. Dr. Johnson. 8/24/48-8/27/48. [Filed under LP Biographical: Political Issues: LP Passport Problems, 1945-1952: Box #2.002, Folder 2.1]

• Letter from Colin B. Cowen to LP RE: Is looking forward to having LP speak at St Andrews next year and suggests that they try to arrange the date around any other lecture he may be giving in Scotland during his time in Europe. [Filed under: LP Speeches, 1948s.29]

• Letter from Dr. Andrew H. Dowdy, Chair, Biophysics Committee, Los Angles County Medical Association, to Beatrice Wulf, Executive Secretary, Gates and Crellin Labs, Caltech, RE: States he will await LP's reply in September. [Letters from Wulf to Dowdy July 29, 1948, from LP to Dowdy September 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #230.14, file:(L: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from Martha D. Letts, W.H. Freeman and Co., to Beatrice Wulf, RE: Freeman asks if Wulf will check with Dr. Davidson about a list of answers to the problems in "General Chemistry." [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b4.6.]
• Pamphlet from Stanford Research Institute. [Filed under LP Science: Materials re: smog in Los Angeles County, 1949-1956: Box #10.007 Folder #7.2]

• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Executive Secretary, Division of Chemistry, Caltech, to Danica Stocesova, RE: Writes in Dr. Kirkwood's absence to report that there are currently no positions available. Suggests that Stocesova come to California and apply in person in September, as her chances of finding a position in chemistry or biology may increase. [Note from Stocesova to Kirkwood July 29, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #199.8, file:(Kolthoff, I.M.)]
• Letter from Executive Secretary, to Professor Frank T. Gucker, Jr., Indiana University. RE: Informs him that LP is still abroad. Doubts he will be going east in October. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]

• Letter from Karl Folkers, Merck & Co, Inc., to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Will be glad to be of service in another capacity. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.8]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Attaches two copies of a list of names of persons who might well be considered for the Canvassing Committee and the Award Committee for the Precision Scientific Company Award in Petroleum. Gives details of how the committees should be set up. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1948-1951: Box #14.010 Folder #10.2]
• Letter from Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists to Dr. R. H. Manske. Thanks him for his donation and support. [Letter from Manske to Einstein, July 20, 1948]. LP Peace: Box 3.005, Folder 5.4

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. Albert Noyes. RE: Informs him that Dr. Lundell is in very bad health. Asks if he has considered a replacement. Mentions Raleigh Gilcrist. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]
• Letter from Walter O. Lundberg, Resident Director of The Hormel Institute, to Dr. Albert Einstein, Chairman, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. Encloses a donation and writes that he believes scientists need to take more direct political action if they hope to bring about changes. Shares that he is active in the Democratic party and knowledgeable regarding politics, and suggests that the scientists organize into a lobbying group. [Letter from Ray to Lundberg, August 19, 1948] LP Peace: Box 3.005, Folder 5.3

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Informs him of the local section chats. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]

• Advice of Charge and Remittance Advice from Bank of American to LP regarding purchase of $1,000 in Traveler's checks cabled to Paris, France. $1014.00 charged to account. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business & Financial, Tax Documents, 1930-1956: box #4.001, folder 1.4]
• International Certificate of Vaccination for Ava Helen Pauling in Paris France. [Filed under LP Biographical: Political Issues, LP Passport Problems, 1956-1960; Assorted Materials re: Passports 1965-1987: Box #2.004, Folder 4.5]
• International Certificate of Vaccination for Linus Pauling in Paris France. [Filed under LP Biographical: Political Issues, LP Passport Problems, 1956-1960; Assorted Materials re: Passports 1965-1987: Box #2.004, Folder 4.5]
• Letter from American Chemical Society, to MR. Kenneth N. Trueblood, CIT. RE: Informs him that his name has been temporarily cut off of the mailing list until he claims his mail. Wishes to be notified of where he would like future issues to be sent. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from American Chemical Society, to Mr. Edwin B. Buchman, CIT. RE: Informs him that his name has been temporarily cut off of the mailing list until he claims his mail. Wishes to be notified of where he would like future issues to be sent. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from American Chemical Society, to Mr. Gene B. Carpenter, CIT. RE: Informs him that his name has been temporarily cut off of the mailing list until he claims his mail. Wishes to be notified of where he would like future issues to be sent. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from American Chemical Society, to Mr. Jerry Donchue, CIT. RE: Informs him that his name has been temporarily cut off of the mailing list until he claims his mail. Wishes to be notified of where he would like future issues to be sent. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from American Chemical Society, to Mr. Oliver R. Wulf, CIT. RE: Informs him that his name has been temporarily cut off of the mailing list until he claims his mail. Wishes to be notified of where he would like future issues to be sent. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from American Chemical Society, to Mr. Robert H. Blaker, CIT. RE: Informs him that his name has been temporarily cut off of the mailing list until he claims his mail. Wishes to be notified of where he would like future issues to be sent. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from American Chemical Society, to Mr. Seymour J. Singer, CIT. RE: Informs him that his name has been temporarily cut off of the mailing list until he claims his mail. Wishes to be notified of where he would like future issues to be sent. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LA DuBridge, President to WA Fowler, Max Mason, LP, and Bruce Sage RE: Sends information to the four men that the Headquarters of the Sixth Army has informed the Institute that they will be awarded Medals of Merit for their services with the Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war. Outlines details of ceremony. [Letter from LP to President DuBridge September 21, 1948] [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia, California Institute of Technology: Assorted Financial Materials: 1945-1965: Box #1.032, Folder 32.1]
• Photo-Static negative of a report analysis for the ore lab by Fred B. Greusel. Comments on the side by John Herman. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.12]
• Report analysis for an ore lab by Fred B. Greusel. Two copies. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.12]

• Cheque: “Called for $1000" [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.074, folder 74.1, item 3]
• Handwritten notes by LP. Discusses French universities, movies, low-gas-consumption cars, and natural resources. LP Safe Drawer 2, Folder 2.039
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Informs him that ARL Folkers was willing to withdraw from the Canvassing Committee. Informs him that Karl would like to be put to work. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.8]
• Letter from Victor Rothschild, Merton Hall, Cambridge, to LP RE: Apologizes for not having received LP's letter in a enough time to make a visit to Oxford. Hopes he can visit LP at Caltech if he ever takes a trip there to visit Tyler. [Letter from LP to Victor Rothschild June 28, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #336.6]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Reports the appointment of people to the Canvassing Committee for the Fritzsche Award. Informs him that he will have to appoint and Award Committee in a few months. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.7]

• Confidential Meeting Minutes for the Administrative Committee of CIT. [Filed under California Institute of Technology: Administrative Files, 1922-1968: Box #1.029, Folder 29.4]
• Letter from C. H. Fisher, Chairman, Philadelphia Section, and Hiram S. Lukens, Staff, University of Pennsylvania, to LP. RE: Invites him to be the Edgar Fahs Smith Lecturer for the year of 1949. Gives details. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Letter from Dr. Yoshio Nishina, President of Scientific Research Institute in Tokyo to LP. RE: Telling LP of his high opinions of the two people that translated his book into Japanese, and tells LP that it would be a good idea for the book to be published in Japanese so he should send his permission. Then congratulates LP on his honorary degree from Cambridge, and then of his personal promotion to President of the scientific institute in Japan. And finally how the Institute has changed from schooling to more of a personal interest because of hard economic times. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1935b.1]
• Letter from Executive Secretary, to Change of Address Department. RE: Informs them that several men have received notice off being cut off the mailing list. Informs them that they should continue to send the mail there. Apologizes for the error made in the mail room. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Miller W. Swaney, Esso Laboratories, to LP. RE: Informs him of details for the February meeting of the North Jersey Section. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1948-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]

• Letter from GW Green to Dr. DuBridge RE: Outlines gift to the Institute of $100,000 from Juliette B. Koepfli and details the current situation of the fund. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia, California Institute of Technology: Assorted Financial Materials: 1945-1965: Box #1.032, Folder 32.1]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Thanks him for his prompt response. Explains the award committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1948-1951: Box #14.010 Folder #10.2]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Proposed Award Committee. RE: Informs them that the ACS has recently accepted the responsibility of administration of the Precision Scientific Company Award in Petroleum Chemistry. Informs them of the committee members. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1948-1951: Box #14.010 Folder #10.2]
• Letter from Franz E. Simon, Clarendon Laboratory, to LP RE: Hopes LP and his family made it home safely and encloses an article from the Financial Times. [Letter from LP to Dr. F. E. Simon November 23, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #365.2]
• Letter from Mary E. Ray, Secretary, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, to Dr. Walter O. Lundberg. Thanks him for his donation and shares that in past the committee's work has been in the educational arena and they have left the more political actions to their colleagues the Federation of American Scientists, which may be familiar to him due to their lobbying efforts in Washington. [Letter from Lundberg to Einstein, August 10, 1948] LP Peace: Box 3.005, Folder 5.3

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Acknowledges his letters of the 10th and 14th. Is sending his railroad tickets and the Pullman tickets. Hopes the letter reaches him in Paris. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]
• Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., to Dr. E.C. Espenshade, Elizabethtown College, RE: Freeman thanks Espenshade for his letter regarding the adoption of LP's chemistry text and the manual accompanying it. He expects that they will have a mimeographed set of answers to the problems in the text ready by the next school year and says that a copy will be sent with it's finished. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b5.3]

• Letter from Wm. N. Lacey, Dean of Graduate Studies, to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Acknowledges receipt of his letter. Will be glad to serve the Society in this capacity. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1948-1951: Box #14.010 Folder #10.2]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Attached five railroad tickets. Is holding the pullman tickets for him in Washington. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]
• Letter from Executive Secretary, to Dr. C. H. Fisher, Chairman, Philadelphia Section. RE: Informs him that LP is in England till September. Will respond at that time. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]

• International Society of Hematology, Certificate of fellowship, August 25, 1948. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: 1948h.7]
• Letter from A. V. Grosse, Committee on Foreign Compendia, to LP. RE: Informs him of their next meeting. Informs him of who will be there. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.3]

• Letter from D. K. O'Conner, US Navy, to LP. RE: Enclosed Personal Service Contract NPS 5559. [Contract July 1, 1948] [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work - Materials re: the Pauling Oxygen Meter, 1940-1947: Box #13.001 Folder #1.2]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Attaches a copy of a personal letter which was written to Albert Noyes on August 10th. Hopes he can discuss this matter with him as soon as possible. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Informs him that he should begin thinking about new appointments to the various award committee. Summarizes the needs of all of the various committee.

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Marion E. Dice, Manager, General Petroleum Corporation. RE: Congratulates him for being the person who nominated the winner of the first Precision Scientific Company Award in Petroleum Chemistry. Asks for his help in the wording of the certificate. Describes what they have already. Informs him of the presentation date and location. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1948-1951: Box #14.010 Folder #10.2]
• Letter from Dennis Flanagan, Managing Editor, Scientific American, to LP RE: States they are publishing a new magazine under the old name “Scientific American,” and encloses the August issue. Hopes LP has time now to write an article for them on some aspect of his work, and suggests some topics. States the average length of articles is 3,000 words, for which they would pay $150. [Filed under LP Correspondence: #374.9]
• Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., to Dr. John Turkevich, Princeton University, RE: Freeman trusts that Turkevich has made all the progress he hoped to on his advanced inorganic manuscript, and that it will be en route to Freeman and Co. soon. [Filed under LP Books, 1950b1.7]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Will Head A.C.S.”, New York Journal of Commerce, August 30, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.23]
• Photostatic negative of and Assay Report for M. L. Sheton, by A. V. Herr Laboratory. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.12]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Informs him that he should begin make to make plans for the general meeting to be held in connection with the national meetings held in 1949. Informs him of what has occurred in the recent past. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]
• Letter from Alden H.Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Asks for authorization to open mail addresses to him that is clearly not personal. Two copies. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.4]
• Letter from Ellsworth Dougherty, to Henry Allen Moe, Guggenheim Foundation. RE: Informs him of his decision to remain in France for 2-3 weeks. Would like to discuss his plans with him. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.3]
• Payroll stub from California Institute of Technology (period ending Aug 31 ‘48) for $720.86 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.068, folder 68.2]