Letter from Linus Pauling to J.T. Randall. December 31, 1952. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• AHP writes cheque to: Manor Market amount: $50.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: Am. Assn. Adv Science amount: $6.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: American Academy of Arts and Sciences amount: $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: American Chemical Society amount: $34.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: American Institute of Physics amount: $12.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: American Physical Society amount: $30.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: American Society of Naturalists amount: $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: Department of Motor Vehicles amount: $63.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: Peter J. Pauling amount: $175.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: W.H. Freeman and Co. amount: $935.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• Letter from LP to J.T. Randall, King's College. [In reply to December 23, 1952 letter from Randall to LP]. [Filed under LP Science: Box 9.001, Folder 1.18]

  31 December 1952

  Professor J. T. Randall, F.R.S

  King's College

  University of London

  Strand, W. C. 2

  London, England

  Dear Randall:

  I am pleased to have your letter of 23 December, and to learn about the meeting on the Nature and Structure of Connective Tissues, that you are organizing for 26 and 27 March.

  I am not sure at the present time whether any of the members of our staff will be able to attend the meeting. I myself am planning to come to Europe for the Ninth Solvay Congress, 8-14 April. This trip, however, requires me to be absent from the California Institute of Technology during term time, and I am accordingly planning to make it as short a trip as possible. It seems unlikely that I shall be able to leave Pasadena nearly two weeks earlier than would otherwise be necessary, in order to participate in your nesting, although, of course, I am very much interested in the subject.

  Professor Corey and I are especially happy during this holiday season. We have been attacking the problem of the structure of nucleic acid during recent months, and have discovered a structure which we think may be the structure of the nucleic acids - that is, we feel that the nucleic acid molecule may have one and only one stable structure. Our first paper on this subject has been submitted for publication. I regret to say that our x-ray photographs of sodium thymonucleate are not especially good; I have never seen the photographs made in your laboratory, but I understand that they are much better than those of Astbury and Bell, whereas ours are inferior to Astbury and Bell's. We are hoping to obtain better photographs, but fortunately the photographs that we have are good enough to permit the derivation of our structure.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Mr. W. H. Offenhauser, Jr. RE: writes in answer to Mr. Offenhauser's note to Dr. Bronk that he found the mentioned article non-scientific and unfit for publication. LP reminds him that people do not always have the same opinions. [Letter from Mr. Offenhauser, Jr. to LP December 26, 1952, letter of response from Mr. Offenhauser, Jr. to LP January 6, 1953] [Filed under O: Correspondence 1952, Box #300, Folder #14]
• Letter from Olive O. Van Horn of the National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act, to LP RE: writes that though LP's "Open letter to Congress" is successful, she has some suggestions to make. It has been redrafted and will be sent to Congress on January 16, 1953. [Copy of the redraft of LP's "Open letter to the Member of the Eighty-third congress of the United States" attached] [Filed under unsorted correspondence 1952].
• Letter from R.V. Bartz to R.B. Corey, E. Hughes, R. Marsh, W.A. Schroeder, cc: LP RE: Discusses the logistics of holding a meeting for the Industrial Associates on the topic of Protein Chemistry. Would like to schedule a meeting to discuss this in more detail. [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 1.028, Folder 28.3]