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Letter from Linus Pauling to Ruth B. Shipley. Page 1. April 12, 1952

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AHP writes cheque: to: Citizen's Committee to Preserve American Freedoms amount: $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
AHP writes cheque: to: Gene Browne amount: $11.65 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
LP Political: Passport Problems, April 1952: Letter from W.T. Astbury, Prof. In the Dept. of Biomolecular Structure, University at Leeds 2, to LP RE: lets LP know of his reservation at the Rembrandt Hotel in England and also desires to confirm a telegram that he sent LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Political Issues: Box 2.002, Folder 2.6]
Letter from Charles M. Apt, M.I.T. to LP. [LP reply April 9, 1952] [Filed under A: Correspondence 1952, Box #12.18]

April 9, 1952

Mr. Charles M. Apt

Room 6-131

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Mr. Apt:

Thank you for writing to me about your new position. I am pleased to learn that you are going to be teaching at Amherst; this seems to me to be a very good way of getting started on your career as a nature investigator and teacher.

Perhaps you will be interested, in a few years, to consider the possibility of spending your sabbatical year in Pasadena. I hope that our work will be in just as interesting a period after a few years as it is now. In particular, the problem of the structure of nucleic acids may just be developing into a stage of rapid progress; right now not very much is being done, from the x-ray standpoint.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W

Letter from LP to Mr. Charles M. Apt RE: thanks for the letter. Congratulations on teaching position. Suggests that Mr. Apt spends his sabbatical in Pasadena in a few years studying the problem of the structure of nucleic acids, esp. from the x-ray standpoint. [Filed under A: Correspondence 1952, Box #12.18]

Note from Astbury to LP RE: Reservations were made for a hotel in England.

Note from Rhett H. Breland to LP RE: is a graduate of high-school who questions the accuracy of writings that he came across in a supplementary booklet about atomic energy. Has many questions and theories of his own. [Letter of response from LP to Mr. Rhett H. Breland April 16, 1952] [Filed under B: Correspondence 1952, Box #37, Folder #19]