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• Article: "The Duty of Dissent", Edward U. Condon, Rights, Vol.1, No. 8 [LP Biographical: Box 2.039, Folder 39.24]
• Itinerary for LP and AHP, trip to Antioch College [Filed under AHP: Box 3.008, Folder 8.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: "A Lens on Blood", Kansas City (Kansas) Times, March 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.50]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Medicine's Future Role Great, Dr. Pauling Says", Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, March 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.49]
• Pamphlet: Information For Predoctoral Fellows, National Science Foundation [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989), Box #14.029, Folder 29.2]

• Letter from David Shoemaker to R. V. Bartz, cc: LP. [LP's reply March 4, 1954] [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #363.3]

  March 1, 1954

  Mr. R. V. Bartz, Executive Director

  Office for Industrial Associates

  Calfornia Institute of Technology

  Pasadena 4, California

  Dear Mr. Bartz:

  Thank you for your letter of February 22, inviting me to a meeting on "The Structure of Metals and Alloys" at the California Institute on April 8 and 9. The program looks most interesting and I am sure that I would like very much to come and would enjoy the meeting.

  The meeting unfortunately conflicts with scheduled meetings of the American Crystallographic Association here in Cambridge (April 4 through 9), which I had planned to attend. However, if it should prove to be otherwise possible for me to go to Pasadena I believe that I could miss part of the ACA meeting, particularly if I could get a night flight on the night of the 7th, so as to be in Pasadena the 8th and 9th. However, I do not see how it will be possible for me to attend the Pasadena meetings at all unless some way is found for my transportation expenses to be covered, for I have no other business that would take me to Pasadena at that time.

  Sincerely yours,

  David P. Shoemaker

  cc: Professor Linus Pauling

  [Handwritten note from David Shoemaker]

  Dear Dr. Pauling,

  Thanks for your letter. I am feeling well these days - no detectable after-effects from my September illness.

  What's this I hear about your planning a trip around the world?

  Dave

• Letter from John R. Platt, The University of Chicago to LP RE: Enclosed papers describe a plaster model of the pi-electron density distribution in napthalene which he is sending LP (he notes that the models make fine ash trays). [Reply from LP March 16, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Barrett Hollister, Antioch College, RE: Discusses travel and event plans. [Letter from Hollister to LP 2, 1954 [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.1]
• Letter from LP's secretary to Easibind Ltd. RE: Cancelling LP's order for binders for Endeavour as he already has received some [Acknowledgment March 12, 1954] [Filed under E Correspondence 1954, Box #112.20]
• Letter from Martin Karplus, Oxford University, to LP. RE: Telling LP how much he would like to try to complete this task of a revision of quantum mechanics, and provides possible time periods that he could come and work on the book. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, Unpb.7]

• AHP writes cheque to: Fashion Cleaners amount $17.85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Arthur J. C. Wilson to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter of February 25, 1954 and admits that the interatomic distances in Volume 10 are not as accurate as those reported elsewhere [LP's letter February 25, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from W. H. Freeman to LP RE: Notes on the networking for Freeman's Chemistry Series LP should do at the Kansas City meeting of the A.C.S., especially concerning Wall's book on thermodynamics and Wall and Yankwich's book on physical chemistry. [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Memo from W. H. Freeman to LP and others RE: Announcing Dr. Ryo Sato of the University of Kanazawa as the winner of the Freeman Award in Science in Japan for his work on the "Mechanism of Nitrate Reduction in Bacteria/" [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Program for the funeral of Elizabeth Darling Santure [LP Biographical: Box 5.054, Folder 54.6]

• AHP writes cheque to International Society of Hematology amount $3.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: American Association of University Professors amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: National Wildlife Federation amount $1.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Richfield Oil Company amount $18.36 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Inter-office Memo from L. A. DuBridge, President, California Institute of Technology to LP, George Beadle RE: Construction of the Norman Church Laboratory [LP Biographical: Box 1.030, Folder 30.4]
• Letter from Burton W. Jones to LP RE: Inviting LP to speak at the annual Sigma Xi meeting of the University of Colorado May 13, 1954 [LP's reply March 8, 1954] [Filed under S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #375.3]
• Letter from David Todd, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology to LP RE: Todd questions how the refusal of the A. C. S. to grant membership to Mme. Joliot-Curie will affect American A. C. S. members suspected of communism. Todd would like LP to address this issue in a letter to be read at the meeting of Todd's local chapter of the A. C. S. [LP's reply March 10, 1954] [Letter from LP to Todd March 10, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1953-1954. 1966-1994), Box #14.007, Folder 7.1]
• Letter from LP to Prof. I. Fankuchen RE: Regrets he will be unable to present paper on metal and alloy structures at the A. C. S. meeting. [Reply March 9, 1954] [Filed under F: Individual Correspondence, Box #117.4]
• Letter from LP to the editors of Nature. [Letter from Nature January 15, 1954] [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #287.21]

  3 March 1954

  The Editors of NATURE

  Macmillan and Co. Ltd.

  St. Martin's Street

  London, W.C. 2

  England

  Gentlemen:

  In your recent communication you have asked if I would prepare a review of Professor J. Monteath Robertson's book on Organic Crystals and Molecules, for publication in NATURE.

  I have learned that my colleague Dr. E. W. Hughes has prepared a review of this book for publication in another journal, and I think that it would not be wise for an additional review of the same book to be published by another member of our group.

  I suggest that Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin of Oxford would be an excellent person to write this review.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Sterling B. Hendricks to LP RE: Hendricks has considered LP's recommendations for the Symposium and updates the list of speakers. He requests LP ask Watson to send his title to the Academy. [LP's letter to Hendricks February 25, 1954; LP's reply March 5, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Memorandum from L. A. DuBridge, C. I. T. to LP RE: Discusses the construction of Norman Church Laboratory. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box #1.030, Folder #30.4]

• AHP writes cheque to: Linda Pauling amount $150.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Safeway amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Albert S. Hester to LP RE: Request that LP send report on which papers presented during the session he presides over at Spring ACS Meeting in Kansas City are the most significant for Chemical and Engineering News [LP's reply March 12, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from E. S. Carmicheal, Socony-Vacuum Laboratories, to LP RE: Pleased to know he would be willing to speak at the New York Section of the American Chemical Society. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.17]
• Letter from Farrington Daniels, University of Wisconsin to LP RE: Daniels provides a recommendation for Mr. Shin Suzuki in response to LP’s letter of February 26, 1954. [Letter from LP to Daniels March 10, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1953-1954. 1966-1994), Box #14.007, Folder 7.1]
• Letter from LP to Clyde Hutchinson RE: Recommendation that article by Braunstein and Simpson not be published. [Filed under C: Correspondence, 1954 Box #74.22].
• Letter from LP to David Shoemaker. [Shoemaker's letter March 1, 1954; Shoemaker's reply March 22, 1954] [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #363.3]

  4 March 1954

  Dr. David P. Shoemaker

  Department of Chemistry

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Cambridge 39, Massachusetts

  Dear Dave:

  Thanks for the note on your letter of 1 March to Mr. Burtz. I knew that it was unlikely that you could come to Pasadena, but I wanted you to know that the meeting was being held.

  I am glad to hear that you have no detectable after-effects from your illness.

  As to my trip around the world, it turned out unfortunately. My wife and I decided to start out, even though I had not received my validated passport after having sent it in to Washington on my return from Israel in November. When we got to New York the passport was not there, and our efforts for a couple of weeks in Washington to chisel it out of the State Department were unsuccessful; they did not refuse, but postponed taking action until it was too late to get to the meeting in India, which was the first week of January. Then we gave up and came home. This is, of course, a way that bureaucrats have of causing trouble by just delaying action.

  I have gone over the sigma-phase manuscript again. I am worried [ab]out it, in that I am afraid that it will be turned down because of its length. Accordingly I suggested quite a number of deletions and changes, the main desirability of them being that they shorten the paper. A few things that might well be said are left unsaid, but I think that it is necessary that the paper be shortened. Gunnar will write to you about it.

  Cordially yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Dr. H. Lehmann RE: Regrets that Lehmann's $150 honorarium for his recent lectures at Caltech cannot be transferred into a grant because of regulations at the Institute; honorarium check enclosed. [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from William V. Consolazio, Program Director for Molecular Biology, National Science Foundation to LP RE: Requests LP evaluate enclosed proposal for research funding. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989), Box #14.029, Folder 29.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: May Co. amount $30.59 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Sterling. B. Hendricks, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. [Hendricks' letter to LP March 5, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]

  5 March 1954

  Dr. S. B. Hendricks

  U.S. Department of Agriculture

  Soil and Water Conservation Research Branch

  Beltsville, Maryland

  Dear Sterling:

  I am glad to have your letter of 3 March.

  As to Todd, I myself feel that he has done such important work in the nucleic acid field that we should try to get him to come to the symposium, if funds are available. Of course, Todd might well not be able to accept the invitation, but at any rate we could invite him, if we want him.

  One point that you might want to discuss with Bronk is that Todd is such an outstanding English scientist that the Academy might prefer to have him give a Pilgrim Lecture at some time in the future, and the invitation to him now might preclude his being selected for the Pilgrim Lectureship.

  As to Kalckar, and Heppel, I myself tend to support Kalckar, although I do not know enough about Heppel’s work to make a real decision. I have not been able to get in touch with Watson today, and accordingly I am writing to you without having his opinions. If he feels differently, we shall write to you on Monday.

  Also, I shall ask Watson to let you know what his title is after he and Crick have discussed the matter together.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• AHP writes cheque to: George Miller amount $75.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Dr. Ernest Leva to LP RE: As he has not heard anything from LP concerning his letter and manuscript of January 7, 1954, he requests his MS back. [LP's replyApril 5, 1954]

• LP Note to Self RE: "Spectrum of Dbr in the 1-mm. wave region"; Electron distribution in argon [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945-1992), Box #10.003, Folder 3.7]
• Letter from Claire G. Black, Secretary for Dr. Johnston RE: As Johnston is overseas at present, she has turn LP's letter of February 22, 1954 over to Dr. Michael Hoch. [LP's letter February 22, 1954; Hoch's reply March 9, 1954] [Filed under J: Individual Correspondence 1954, Box #190.2]
• Letter from LP to Burton W. Jones RE: Declining invitation to speak at the annual Sigma Xi lecture at the University of Colorado. [Jones' letter March 3, 1954] [Filed under S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #375.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. I. MacArthur RE: LP gives thanks for book, "Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland" and requests updates on MacArthur's work [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Martin Karplus, Oxford University. RE: Telling Karplus of the possible revisions, and how they will work together. Then tells him what he is working on at the moment, and that he would like to know what the young doctor is working on. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, Unpb.7]
• Letter from LP to Members of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences RE: LP encloses ballot concerning whether the Proceedings should be copyrighted in the future. [Letter from the National Academy of Sciences February 19, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from T. Duckett Jones, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation to LP RE: Requests recommendation for Alfred Deustch, Daniel H. Deustch and Robert E. Phillips who have submitted a research proposal to the Foundation. [LP's reply to Jones March 16, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation–Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence, 1954-1959), Box #15.002, Folder 2.1]
• Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., to LP . RE: Freeman says he plans to be at Cal Tech March 15, 1954 and would like to have a leisurely discussion with LP about the revision of Collge Chemistry. He would like to know if there will be some day that LP is free to do so. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]

• LP writes cheque to: Tata Incorporated, New York amount $238.30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from A. von Hippel to LP, RE: von Hippel asks LP for permission to adapt diagrams from LP's book, "The Nature of the Chemical Bond," for his own forthcoming book. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1960b.5.2]
• Letter from Detlev W. Bronk, National Academy of Sciences to Alexander R. Todd, University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge, cc: LP RE: Inviting Todd to take part in the symposium on nucleic acids at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. [LP's reply March 15, 1954; Todd's reply March 17, 1954] [LP Science Box #14.012, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from G. B. Kistiakowsky, National Academy of Sciences to Members of the Chemistry Section, LP RE: Concerning ballots and elections for new section members. Ballot enclosed. [LP's reply March 15, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from I. Fankuchen to LP RE: Reply to letter of March 3, 1954; regrets LP will be unable to give paper at A. C. S. meeting. Asks LP's opinion of his enclosed paper. [Filed under F: Individual Correspondence, Box #117.4]
• Letter from J. A. Pople, University of Cambridge to LP RE: Thanking for letter of February 19, 1954 about his Pople's note on the water molecule and agrees that LP is correct when he points out the possibility of hybridization is discussed in LP's book [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to Bright Wilson, Harvard University. RE: Telling Dr. Wilson that he has made contact with their junior writer for their book, and then continues to ask Wilson a question about a student of his that will not have a bachelor's degree, but wants to get into a graduate program. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, Unpb.7]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Otto Bastiansen. [Bastiansen's letter February 6, 1954] [Filed under B: Individual Correspondence, Box #24.3]

  9 March 1954

  Dr. Otto Bastiansen

  Universitetets Kjemiske Institutt

  Blindern, Oslo

  Norway

  Dear Otto:

  Thanks for your letter about Finbak. I am sorry that he has not been improving more rapidly, although pleased, of course, that he continues to hold his own.

  We are glad to have Ken Hedberg back here, and I think that he benefitted a great deal by his stay with you in Oslo.

  I have talked with Verner about the matter of a meeting in Paris. I am sorry to say that it seems that none of our electron diffraction men will be there. It is, of course, a long way from Pasadena to Paris.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Michael Hoch, Ohio State University to LP RE: Response to LP's letter to Prof. Johnston. Supplies calculations for the heat of vaporization of boron. [LP's reply April 21, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from Richard Bear to LP RE: The 1.5 experiment for insulin fibrils was not attempted because it did not seem important at the time of experimentation. Asks LP if he has a model for collagen. [Letter from LP to Richard Bear February 25, 1954, reply from Bear to LPMarch 9, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Memorandum from LP to the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineers RE: States where and when there will be a meeting of the staff. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.020, Folder #20.5]

• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: Wulf says that LP is leaving Pasadena and will not be back in the office until March 30, 1954 [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from Donald D. Wagman, National Bureau of Standards to LP RE: Explains how they derived the value for the heat of sublimation of boron in the NBS Circular 500 in response to LP's question. He hopes that they will be more accurate as they make further progress on the work [LP's letter February 22, 1954; LP's reply April 21, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from LP to David Todd, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology RE: Reply to Todd's request to send letter to be read at his chapter of the A. C. S. LP encloses October 28, 1953 letter to Farrington Daniels voicing his concerns about the Mme. Joliot-Curie membership situation and further discusses the implications of the decision of the A. C. S. and what actions should be taken by its members. [Todd's letter March 3, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1953-1954. 1966-1994), Box #14.007, Folder 7.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. D. P. Riley. [Filed under R: Individual Correspondence, Box #329.6]

  10 March 1954

  Dr. D. P. Riley

  The Royal Institution

  21 Albermarle Street

  London, W. 1, England

  Dear Dannis:

  Thanks for your letter of 25 February. My wife and I are looking forward to receiving the gift that you mention.

  I am interested to learn that you feel that you should transfer to the United States. I am sure that you would get a university appointment, but it might take some time, and, moreover, there might well be difficulty in your getting one that you feel that you could accept. Almost without exception staff appointments in this country are made at the rank of instructor or assistant professor, with salary around $5000 per year; then the staff member is promoted to associate professor and professor. It is rather rare for a more senior appointment to be made initially.

  Our situation about a temporary appointment is that our funds have now been pretty well allocated for the coming academic year, and unless something unforeseen occurs we could not give you a research fellowship. I doubt that we could go as high as $6500, in any case. If we plan ahead, we might be able to make an arrangement for you for the year 1955-56. (One difficulty is that we have to trim our budget for 1954-55 somewhat, because of decreased income.)

  There is, moreover, another aspect of the problem that seems to me to be important. People find it harder to get located if they are in Pasadena than if they are in the eastern United States. The best place of all to be is, I think, New York City. This suggests that you apply to Harker for appointment. I understand that Crick is leaving soon, and it seems not out of the question that his departure would leave an opening in the group that you could fill. If you are at all interested, you should write to Harker about it. I should think that he would be glad to have you with the group, in order to increase its productivity.

  Also, you might think it worth while to write to Pepinsky. Pennsylvania State University, located in the town of State College, Pennsylvania, is quite representative of state universities in the United

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  States, and by being there you would get an excellent idea as to what university life in general in this country is like. Moreover, Pepinsky has a lot of projects under way, and he is able to provide support for a lot of research fellows. I think, too, that he is not greatly hampered by lack of space, as we are at present.

  You might want to apply directly for a university appointment. Professor C. S. Hamilton, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, has written me saying that they want to appoint an instructor in general chemistry, to begin work next fall. They want a man trained in physical chemistry who will carry on research, direct doctor candidates in the field, and later on offer a graduate course. They are hoping to have someone who would be appointed permanently. The starting salary as instructor is $4500.

  I think that you might consider it worth while to write to Professor Hamilton, telling him that I had mentioned the opening to you, and saying that you would not be willing to come as instructor, but might accept an appointment as assistant professor, at a suitable salary. If you do so, I suggest that you let me know, in order that I might write a supporting letter to Hamilton. I may say that the University of Nebraska is considered to be pretty good, and in particular their chemistry department has a very good reputation.

  Please let me know before long about any changes in your situation; in particular, I suggest that you get in touch with me in June, say, to see whether our financial situation for the coming year is the same or has changed.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Dr. Murray Vernon King RE: LP agrees completely with Coulson’s procedure. LP is not satisfied with the questions King has formulated but he believes Sokolov will take care of that when he writes his article. Asks if there is an importing company through which he could order the Russian translation of his book Nature of the Chemical Bond.[Letters from King to LP March 9, 1954, May 20, 1954] [[Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: Resonance Theory Controversy, 1949-1984), Box #2.003, Folder 3.1]
• Letter from LP to Farrington Daniels, Chairman, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, President, American Chemical Society RE: Thanks for letter of recommendation for Shin Suzuki; LP probably will not grant him a fellowship at C. I. T. LP encloses copy of the letter he has sent to David Todd concerning Mme. Joliot-Curie's situation with the American Chemical Society. [Daniels' letter February 26, 1954; Daniels' reply March 12, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1953-1954. 1966-1994), Box #14.007, Folder 7.1]
• Letter from LP to Prof. G. L. Clark RE: Declines invitation to write article on valence for new chemical encyclopedia, suggests Prof. David Shoemaker (MIT) be asked instead. [Clark's letter February 15, 1954] [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence Box #66.2]
• Letter from LP to Yujiro Tomiie, Osaka University RE: LP does not have funds at present to offer Tomiie an appointment, but invites him to come to the laboratory if he can find outside funds. [Tomiie's letter February 15, 1954] [Filed under T: Correspondence 1954, Box #410.19]
• Letter from Melba Phillips to LP RE: Inviting LP to speak to an AAScW meeting while back East giving his Harvey lecture [LP's reply March 16, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from S. D. Cornell, National Academy of Sciences to Francis H. Crick, cc: LP RE: Inviting Crick to take part in the upcoming symposium on nucleic acids at the Annual Meeting of the Academy. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from T. R. Stoltenberg to LP RE: Questions which chemicals make the best non-soluble paints and requests name of the best chemical dictionary so he can identify chemicals to create paints [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from T. R. Wood, Program Committee, American Chemical Society, to LP RE: Compliments him on his choice of topic, protein structure. Confirms event plans and accommodations. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.8]
• Memo from LP RE: Richard Lippman's organization of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc. which will collect funds for research on nephrosis and related kidney diseases. [Filed under LP Science: (National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc., 1954-1958), Box #14.026, Folder 26.1]
• Memorandum from L. A. DuBridge, President, California Institute of Technology to Division Chairman and other Administrative Officers, cc: LP RE: Requesting that all departments decrease expenditure to prevent additional growth to the deficit. [LP Biographical: Academia: Box #1.030, Folder #30.4]

• AHP writes cheque to Raskam For Congress amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Dr. Kenneth Pitzer to LP RE: Inquiring whether LP would like to speak at Research Conference talk at Berkeley in the spring and also whether Caltech would be interested in having Dr. R. P. Bell speak and whether they could give an honorarium to contribute to his travel costs. [LP's reply March 17, 1954] [Filed under P: Individual Correspondence, Box #308.7]
• Letter from E. Bright Wilson, Harvard University, to LP. RE: Telling LP that he was glad that Karplus would be working with them on the 2nd edition of their book. Then explains that he would like it if Karplus came through and saw him before continuing on to Cal tech, and also gives him his schedule to LP. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, Unpb.7]
• Letter from Gunnar Bergman to Office of Naval Research RE: Gives a Periodic Status Report for the period November 1953 through February 1954 for Contract No. Noonr-24432. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.17]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Kenneth Pitzer, UC Berkeley. [Reply from Pitzer March 23, 1954] [Filed under P: Individual Correspondence, Box #308.7]

  11 March 1954

  Dr. Kenneth Pitzer

  University of California

  Berkeley 4, California

  Dear Kenneth:

  Some time ago I noticed that a letter from you had arrived during my absence from Pasadena. I have been uncertain until recently as to whether or not I could make a trip to Berkeley in the near future, as you have suggested. Now, however, I have had to decide that it will not be possible for me to take time for a visit to Berkeley this spring - or at any rate before May. I expect, moreover, that I shall be so busy during May as to make it unwise for me to plan on the Berkeley trip.

  There is a question that I should like to ask you. There seems to be some chance that one of our juniors will apply for a graduate assistantship and for admission as a graduate student, without having received his bachelor's degree. I judge that he would then begin his graduate work with training at least equivalent to that of the average graduate student that we have in chemistry. One question that he has asked is what the attitude of other universities would be, in case that he decided to apply for admission as a graduate student elsewhere, after one year as a graduate student here. What do you think the University of California would decide?

  You may remember that Alex Kosiakoff was admitted as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins at the end of his junior year here. He was, in fact, given a bachelor's degree by the Institute after he had been a graduate student at Hopkins for one year.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from W. H. Freeman to Beatrice Wulf RE: Freeman forgot LP told him he would not be in Pasadena at a certain time and will try to see him after March 30 when he has returned [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Memorandum from LP to Dean Watson, C. I. T., RE: Recommends salary changes be made fore member of the permanent staff of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box #1.030, Folder #30.8]
• Memorandum from R.A. Pasternak to LP. [Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: The Structure and Properties of Collagen, 1951-1955), Box #6.004, Folder #4.14]

  To: Professor pauling

  From: R. A. Pasternak

  Subject: The Average Number of Amino Acid Residues Contained in the Unit Cell of Collagen

  I have collected experimental data for samples of untreated kangaroo tail tendon. They are:

  (1) unit cell dimensions

  (2) density

  (3) chemical composition

  All the experiments were carried out with a batch of tendon equilibrated with a saturated solution of K₂CO₃ (relative humidity about 45%).

  (1) An X-ray photograph has been taken in the 10 cm. camera of an unstretched sample of the material. Humidity equilibrium was maintained throughout the exposure. The photograph was measured with a photometer.

  Results:

  (a) Meridional spacing: d = 2.88 Å.

  (b) Equatorial spacing:

  [Data Equations]

  Since the 1. Order reflection is much sharper, double weight was given to it for the average.

  The volume of the unit cell, assuming that the equatorial reflection is the (1100) of a hexagonal unit cell, is V = 2.88 x 11.54² x cos 30º = 443.3 A³0

  (2) The density of the material was determined by flotation. The density of the liquid (bromo- and chlorobenzene) was adjusted approximately with some samples, and the final adjustment was made with new samples; thus a possible change in hydration was reduced to a minimum. In a second check, samples were evacuated for 15 minutes and the density liquid was added before breaking the vacuum in order to get rid of the possible air bubbles. No change in the density of the samples, however, was observed.

  The density was found to be 1.32 gr. cm.-³. This is a lower limit, because air may be included in the samples.

  From (1) and (2) one obtains as minimum weight of material in unit cells

  M = V x d x N = 443.3 x 10-24 x 1.32 x 6.023 x 1023 = 352 gr.

  (3) A part of the equilibrated material was sent to Dr. Elek for a microanalysis. He carried out duplicate determinations of C, N, H, ash and water. The values reported by him, and listed in column 1 of Table I, are referred to the equilibrium weight of the sample. Elek reports the ash as sulfate. The composition of the ash was not determined and for the calculations I assume that the amount of inorganic impurity in the sample is one half of the ash. The same amount of water is, within the accuracy of the analysis, lost by the sample at the three drying temperatures, 105˚, 125˚, and 150˚. This is undoubtedly the total amount of water bound in my collagen sample. This conclusion agrees with the observation of other investigators; samples used for the determination of the amino acid composition were in general dried at 105° and the amount of amino acid residues found added up to nearly 100% of the material. In column 2 Elek’s results are recalculated for the dry, ash-free basis, i. e., 83.4 gr. = 100%.

  In column 3 the values for C, N, H, calculated from the amino acid composition as reported in the literature are given, in parentheses the observed nitrogen value cited by Tristram is added; it is appreciably higher than the calculated one because the latter does not include amide nitrogen. I took the data of Tristram (Adv. Prot. Chem. 15, 143 (1949)) which are based mainly on Bowes’ results because his collagen samples are probably least denatured of all samples investigated.

  Our value for nitrogen compares well with the observed nitrogen of Tristram; our carbon value, however, is significantly higher than the calculated one. This high value may be caused by a non-collagenous component in our sample. One cannot, however, exclude the possibility that the calculated value does not represent the real composition; oddly enough, I was not able to find in the literature an experimental determination of the carbon content of collagen.

  Average number of amino acid residues in the unit cell. I assumed in this calculation that all the organic material of the sample is collagen of an average residue weight of 93.3 as given by Tristram.

  In our sample, 16.3% water + cations are associated with 83.7% protein; 93.3 gr. protein would hold 93.3 x 16.6 = 18.6 gr. H2O, 83.4

  i. e., the apparent molecular weight = 93.3 + 18.6 == 111.9 gr. mol. Total weight of the unit cell = 352

  [Data Equation]

  The uncertainties in this value are

  (1) average residue weight

  (2) observed density may be low; this would increase n

  (3) the presence of non-collagenous material would decrease n

  I plan a series of experiments with gelatin designed to minimize the sources of error (2) and (3).

  [Data Table]

• Newspaper Clipping: "Notorious Communist-Fronter on Antioch Visiting Faculty", Yellow Springs (Ohio) American, March 11, 1954. [Pauling annotation: "This paper is said to be sponsored (paid for) by Dr. Hammond, former chemistry teacher at Antioch who makes money from Drierite as an anti-Antioch College sheet."] [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.48]
• Telegram from Kistiakowsky, National Academy of Sciences to LP RE: Requests personal biography information for Alexander Todd on behalf of Academy Home Secretary. [Reply Beatrice Wulf March 12, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Telegram from LP to Clark Foreman, Emergency Civil Liberties Committee RE: Honoring Albert Einstein on his 75^th birthday. [Filed under E Correspondence 1954, Box #112.20]

• AHP writes cheque to: Market Basket amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to Caltech Bookstore amount $25.38 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Bennett Travel Agency amount $597.95 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Alexander Wetmore, Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences RE: Biographical information on Alexander Todd prepared by LP enclosed. [Telegram March 11, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Easibind to LP RE: binder order; acknowledges cancellation of the Endeavour binders, requests dimensions of Journal of Chemical Physics. [Letter of March 1, 1954; Reply April 12, 1954] [Filed under E Correspondence, Box #112.20]
• Letter from Farrington Daniels, Chairman, Dept. of Chem., University of Wisconsin, President, American Chemical Society to LP RE: Daniels acknowledges the copy of LP's letter to David Todd concerning the Mme. Joliot-Curie membership incident with the A. C. S. Daniels expresses regret about the entire situation. [LP's letter to Daniels March 10, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1953-1954. 1966-1994), Box #14.007, Folder 7.1]
• Letter from LP to Albert S. Hester, Chemical and Engineering News RE: Cites the papers/information LP considers most significant from the Kansas City meeting of the ACS in answer to Hester's letter of March 4, 1954 as the discovery of a fourth abnormal sort of hemoglobin molecule in connection with another previously unrecognized disease (Itano, Bergren and Sturgeon). [Hester's letter February 4, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from Robert B. Corey to Dr. Kenneth J. Palmer, Western Regional Research Laboratory, cc: LP RE: Corey has discussed Palmer's suggestion to create a contract to cover the expense of the calculations involved in working out the lysozyme data and determining the structure of lysozyme with LP and they think it is feasible. [Filed under P: Individual Correspondence, Box #304.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: Reed College amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Ben May. [May's letter January 26, 1954] [Filed under M: Individual Correspondence, Box #244.5]

  13 March 1954

  Mr. Ben May

  P.O. Box 1186

  Mobile 7, Alabama

  Dear Mr. May:

  I am writing to tell you that I am grateful to you for sending me clippings about sickle cell anemia, and I hope that you will continue to do so. Moreover, I hope that you will send me clippings about any other matter that you think might be appropriate for our attention. I am at the present time looking about for another field of application of chemistry to medical problems. Dr. Harvey Itano, who has done most of the work on abnormal hemoglobins here, is soon to be transferred to Bethesda - he is an officer of the Public Health Service, and the Service plans that he have a group of people working on these problems there. I feel that I could do best now by trying to start up another new field of research.

  I have been invited to give a Harvey Lecture in New York next month, and I shall summarize our work on the abnormal hemoglobins in this lecture.

  Professor Beadle and I are well pleased with the way things have been developing for us during the last year. A new laboratory of chemical biology is to be built, with use of a bequest of something over a million dollars, from Mr. Norman Church, who died last year. The biologists who are interested in application of chemical methods to biological problems will occupy one end of this laboratory, and the chemists the other end. We have been very crowded in the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry during the last few years, and the new laboratory space will fill a great need. In particular, it will permit us to have several young M.D.'s around, who will through work here become better trained for a career of medical research.

  The problem that we have to work on now is that of equipping the new laboratory. In December 1953 the Rockefeller Foundation approved a grant of $1,500,000 to the California Institute of Technology for support of the program of research in the field of chemical biology, on condition that an equal sum be raised for the same purpose during the next three years. We have just learned that a gift of $300,000 for this purpose has been made by a man in the Los Angeles district, and accordingly 20 percent of our goal has been achieved.

  On Monday I am going to Antioch College for a few days, in connection with their celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the college. Then I am stopping in Kansas City, where my collaborator Dr. Harvey Itano is to receive the Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry, given him for his work on the discovery of abnormal hemoglobins.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Richard W. Lippman to LP RE: Requesting confirmation of LP's willingness to serve as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council, LA Chapter, The National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc.; sample letterhead included. [Letter from LP to Lippman April 7, 1954] [Filed under L: Individual Correspondence, Box #217.5]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pomona College amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Chemist on Series at Antioch", Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, March 14, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.47]

• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP would like 12 copies of General Chemistry. 2nd Ed. sent to him and charged to his royalty account. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1953b.1]
• Letter from LP to Casper Schutte RE: Reply to Schutte's letter of March 15, 1954; Contains information about applying for a graduate fellowship at Caltech. [Schutte's letter May 18, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences RE: LP hopes Todd will accept invitation to take part in the symposium. He also believes that the Academy might change regulations to elect more members each year, an increase to 50 new members. [Letter from Bronk March 9, 1954; Reply from Bronk March 22, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to George Kistiakowsky, National Academy of Sciences. [Kistiakowsky's letter March 10, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]

  15 March 1954

  Prof. George Kistiakowsky

  Department of Chemistry

  Harvard University

  Cambridge 38, Mass

  Dear George:

  Thanks for your letter about the caucus and Zechmeister. We shall go ahead with the nomination of Zechmeister on an intersectional basis.

  Also, as you know by now, I have taken care of the material about Todd, having sent it on last week to the Home Secretary of the Academy.

  Sincerely yours,

  Dictated by Linus Pauling

  Signed in his absence:W

• Letter from LP to Professor A.R. von Hippel, RE: LP gives von Hippel permission to use diagrams from his book, "The Nature of the Chemical Bond," and advises von Hippel to write to Cornell University Press for additional permission. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1960b.5.2]
• Letter from T.H. Templeton, Captain, USN, Commanding Officer to LP RE: Discusses the policy of the Office of Naval Research regarding the transmission of reprints of unclassified technical publications to scientists in the USSR and its satellites. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Antioch Slates Pauling Visit", Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, March 15, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.47]
• Receipt of dues paid by LP to The International Society of Hematology: amount $3.00 [LP Biographical: Box 4.060, Folder 60.2]

• Letter from LP to D.B. Clapp RE: Expression of disappointment on LP's inability to visit, and discussion on passport problems. A copy of the revised "General Chemistry" was sent along with the letter. [Filed under C: Correspondence, 1954 Box #74.22].
• Letter from LP to Donalee L. Tabern, Abbott Laboratories RE: Thanking her for letter about red blood cell tagging and the availability of radioactive sodium chromate. [Tabern's letter January 25, 1954; Related memo from Itano February 9, 1954] [Filed under T: Correspondence 1954, Box #410.19]
• Letter from LP to Dr. John R. Platt, The University of Chicago. [Platt's letter of March 1, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]

  16 March 1954

  Dr. John R. Platt

  Department of Physics

  The University of Chicago

  Chicago 37, Illinois

  Dear Dr. Platt:

  I thank you very much for the fine plaster model of the pi-electron density distribution in naphthalene. It is indeed interesting that this simple treatment works out so well. I remember that I suggested that Herr Direktor Doktor Otto Schmidt make these calculations, when he came to Pasadena over twenty years ago, mainly in order to keep the old fellow happily occupied, and not with the idea that the treatment would have real value.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Dictated by Linus Pauling Signed in his absence:W

• Letter from LP to Melba Phillips RE: Declining invitation to speak at an AAScW meeting because of the short duration of his stay in New York [Letter from Phillips' March 10, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to T. Duckett Jones, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation RE: Recommendation for Deutsch, Deustch and Phillips. [Jones' letter to LP March 8, 1954; Jones' reply March 24, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation–Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence, 1954-1959), Box #15.002, Folder 2.1]
• Letter from Sterling B. Hendricks to the participants in the session on nucleic acids at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (April 26, 1954) RE: Enclosed copy of current program for the upcoming session. No answer was received from Todd, so he is not included in the program. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from T. S. Work, National Institute for Medical Research (England) to LP RE: Questions whether Caltech has any funds available to finance a visit out West while Work is the U. S. [Memo concerning letter from H. Borsook to LP May 18, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Manuscript, Correspondence, Itinerary: Science as a Cultural Subject and Molecular Medicine, Centennial Celebration Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, March 16-18 [LP Speeches 1954s.1]
• Memorandum from B. H. Sage to F. C. Lindvall, cc: LP RE: Discusses accreditation information concerning Chemical Engineering. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.021, Folder #21.3]
• Receipt of honorarium ($520.00) from Antioch College Centennial [LP Biographical: Box 4.060, Folder 60.2]
• Telegram from Garnet T. Page to LP RE: Invites him to be Memorial Lecturer for the Chemical Institute of Canada Annual Meeting. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.11]

• Letter from Alexander R. Todd to LP RE: Questioning LP about what type of presentation he should prepare for the symposium on nucleic acids at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Alexander R. Todd to the D. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences RE: Todd would like to accept the offer to take part in the session on nucleic acids at the National Academy of Sciences meeting. [Letter from Bronk March 9, 1954; Reply March 29, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to Cornell University Press: LP requests that one copy of his book, "The Nature of the Chemical Bond," be sent to Mr. K Oteni, and that his royalty account be charged. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1960b.5.2]
• Letter from LP to K. Otani RE: LP is sending Otani a copy of The Nature of the Chemical Bond and is interested to learn more about Otani's study and research at his university. [Otani's letter January 15, 1954; Otani's reply May 3, 1954] [Filed under O: Correspondence 1954, Box #300.16]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1].

  17 March 1954

  (Dictated 14 March)

  Dear Peter:

  Mama and I are taking off tomorrow for Antioch College, which is in Yellow Springs, Ohio. We are to be there one week. On Tuesday I shall give an assembly talk, on "Science as a Cultural Subject." Then later in the week I am to give a public address, on molecular medicine -- mainly about hemoglobin. Then on Wednesday 24 March we shall leave Yellow Springs, flying to Chicago, and Mama will continue on to Spokane, where she will stay one day with Aunt Elizabeth, and then fly to Portland, on Thursday. On Wednesday I shall continue from Chicago to Kansas City, staying there two nights. I am to preside at a symposium on sickle cell anemia on Thursday afternoon. At this time Harvey Itano is to give the address in connection with his receipt of the Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry ($1000). About five other talks on sickle cell anemia and other abnormal hemoglobins will also be presented. Dr. Itano and two collaborators in Children's Hospital in Los Angeles will announce the discovery of a fourth abnormal hemoglobin -- it is named hemoglobin E, the others being sickle cell anemia hemoglobin (S), and hemoglobins C and D -- all of them discovered here.

  Then on Friday I shall fly from Kansas City to Portland. Mama and I shall stay with Linda until Monday morning and then fly home. Monday is registration day. Our classes begin on Tuesday.

  Would you ask the book dealer to get a copy of the book "The Restless Voyage" by S.D. Porteus, 10s 6d, published by George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., London, and send it to me?

  I am looking forward to receiving some more Penguin books.

  I have continued to work on the collagen structure. I think there is little doubt about its correctness, although we do not as yet have the radial distribution curve calculated. The calculation is a big one, and we shall probably do it on the punched card machines, although there is a bare possibility that it will be programmed for the consolidated electronic calculator, which has been made available to us for a short while. I don't know whether the Institute will buy one of these calculators, or whether in the future we shall have to rent it.

  Mama and I shall talk with Linda about plans for the summer. I wish that you would write immediately about your plans, to the extent that they affect Linda or might affect her. I judge that you are going to work in Naples. Is this definite? If Linda were to stay in Europe for a year, what would you advise? There is the possibility of her studying, in Tubingen, say -- I think that Tubingen would be better than a big city, and also better than Paris. Of course, she might go to Sweden, but German and French are better languages to learn than Swedish. Would you think that there would be a possibility for her to study in England, and if so, what? If there were something worthwhile that she could do in Cambridge, it might be nice for her to be with you.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

  Dictated by Linus Pauling

  Signed in his absence:W

• Letter from LP to Prof. K. S. Pitzer, UC Berkeley RE: Caltech will be glad to have Dr. Bell speak and will give him an honorarium as well lodging at the Athenaeum. LP may be able to give a seminar talk at Berkeley in May. [Pitzer's letter March 11, 1954] [Filed under P: Individual Correspondence, Box #308.7]
• Letter from Manuel Morales, Naval Medical Research Institute RE: Inviting LP to lecture at the National Naval Medical Center in April "as discussed in prior correspondence" [LP's reply April 5, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from W. M. Stanley to A. Wetmore, Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences, cc. to LP RE: Suggesting that a paper from the Biochemistry and Virus Laboratory, "Considerations on the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Evidence for a Watson-Crick Model with Interrupted Chains" be included in the program for the session on nucleic acids at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. [LP's reply April 1, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Science Test of Imagination, Speaker Tells Antioch Group", Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, March 17, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.47]

• AHP writes cheque to: Mira Loma Mutual Water Co. amount $13.41 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from C.H. Bramford to LP RE: Invitation to give a paper for a one day discussion on the structure of synthetic polypeptides and silk proteins at the Courtalds, Limited Research Laboratory. [Letter from CH Bramford to LP March 18, 1954, reply from LP to Bramford April 6, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from Griffith C. Evans, Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley to LP RE: Explanation for delayed vote on copyrighting the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is against it. (Handwritten notation by LP of current status of vote on letter) [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Morris J. Spivack to LP RE: Requesting LP recommend his paper for publication to the National Academy of Sciences; paper enclosed: "Einstein's Field Equations Obsolete" [LP's reply March 31, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Noted Chemist Here this Week", Yellow Springs (Ohio) News, March 18, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.47]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Science Informative, Antioch Group Told", Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, March 17, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.47]

• AHP writes cheque to: National Share Croppers Fund amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Interoffice Memo from Robert B. Corey to LP RE: Supplies information about current work in labs to answer Professor Randall's letter of December 16, 1953 [LP's letter to Randall March 23, 1954] [Filed under R: Individual Correspondence, Box #326.6]
• LP Newspaper Clipping: Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, article titled "Medicine's Future Role Great, Dr. Pauling Says". March 19, 1954 [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: 1954n.4]
• Letter from David R. Goddard, President, Society for Growth and Development, University of Pennsylvania, RE: Describes the annual symposium for the Society for the Study of Growth and Development. informs that the officers of the Society would like to have him give the opening paper devoted to the problem of the duplication of molecules. [Letter from LP to Goddard April 5, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.12]
• Letter from F. G. Soper, Vice-Chancellor, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand to LP RE: Requesting a reference for Dr. Ralph Spitzer who is a candidate for the Chair of Chemistry at the University of Otago [LP's reply April 21, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.034, Folder 34.4]
• Newspaper Article: "Matter Expert Views Science Calls it 'Greatest Cultural Study'," Antioch College Record, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio [LP Newspaper Clipping 1954n.3]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Matter Expert Views Science Calls it 'Greatest Cultural Study'", Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) Record, March 19, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.48]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Scientist Foresees Predictable Cures for Man's Little-Understood Diseases", Springfield (Ohio) Sun, March 19, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.49]

• Letter from Jack Mayer, Capt. USAF to LP RE: Mayer requests LP's thoughts on filter paper electrophoresis [LP's reply April 21, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from Romeo P. Allard, Chairman of the Committee on Awards, American Institute of Chemists RE: Invited to select a student nominee for the Fourth Annual Student Medal Awards given by the Western Chapter of The American Institute of Chemists. [LP's reply April 8, 1954] [Filed A: Organizational Correspondence, Box #10.4]
• Newspaper Clipping: "'Cultural' Worth of Science Stressed by Antioch Speaker", Springfield (Ohio) Sun, March 20, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.49]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Chemist Schedules Talk, Conferences", Springfield (Ohio) Sun, March 20, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.49]

• AHP writes cheque to: J. Moyer Hunsberger amount $6.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Notes, Itinerary: Credo, Vespers Talk, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio [Various handwritten notes by LP][LP Speeches 1954s.2]

• Letter from Cpt. Daniel L. Larson, Army Medial Service Graduate School to LP RE: Larson would like to discuss the study of hemoglobin with the use of the Perkin Elmer double beam infrared spectrophotometer. [LP reply April 19, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from D.B. Clapp to LP RE: Thank you note for LP's letter, discussion on Clapp's life and plans for the future. Invitation for LP and AHP to visit on their next trip to Europe. [Letter from LP to D.B. Clapp March 16, 1954, reply from Clapp to LP March 22, 1954 [Filed under C: Correspondence, 1954 Box #74.22].
• Letter from David Shoemaker to LP. [Letter from LP March 4, 1954] [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #363.3]

  March 22, 1954

  Professor Linus Pauling

  Department of Chemistry

  California Institute of Technology

  Pasadena 4, California

  Dear Dr. Pauling:

  Thank you for your letter. I am sorry that I cannot come to your meeting, but I hope that it will be an interesting and successful one.

  I am now inclined to agree that you are probably right about the danger of the sigma phase paper being turned down because of its length. Therefore, I guess, trimming is in order, even if it means the deletion of worth-while material. I have long enough or too long stood in the way of getting the paper into press by sitting on it here, and so I don't want to see it delayed any longer; I will therefore go along with whatever changes you and Gunnar want to make, and I suggest that Gunnar save time by not bothering to clear details with me. My greatest fear is that if the paper is delayed much longer its contents will be old hat.

  I am confident that whatever Gunnar sends off for publication will be a good paper, and I will be happy when it is at last in print.

  Things here are going very slowly at the moment. For a year or so I chased a will o' the wisp on an attempt to find another Na4Pb phase that would explain Stillwell and Robinson's old powder data. We are now getting started on some Na-Pb phases between NaPb and Na₄Pb with the expectation of getting somewhere. I have been badly stuck on the delta phase (MoNi) for a number of months. It is tetragonal, with probable space group (as indicated by extinctions) P 4₂2₁2 with a₀ = 9.12 A., c₀ = 8.90 A., 54 atoms in the cell. The interesting thing is that the Okl reciprocal lattice net looks essentially identical to the hkO net in the sigma phase! However, with the lower symmetry (no center of symmetry) and large number of atoms it is no cinch to devise a structure which looks like the sigma phase in projection down both a and b axes. However, we are trying some new things and hope to have the structure before too long. We have some data on some of Geoffrey Wilkinson's "super sandwiches", one with molybdenum and one with tungsten. These are going slowly, as in both compounds there are two molecules in the asymmetric unit.

  Sorry to learn of your bad luck on your India and round-the world trip.

  Sincerely yours,

  Dave

  David P. Shoemaker

  DPS:fd

  cc: Professor Gunnar Bergman

• Letter from Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences to LP RE: Agrees with LP that the number of members elected each year to the NAS be increased from 30 to 50. [LP's letter to Bronk March 15, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Dr. John T. McLaughlin to LP RE: Discusses the importance of studying the danger from microwave and inviting LP head up the chemical section of a larger multi-institutional study of microwave. [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from G. E. Owen to LP RE: Notes concerning Owen's plans for work at the Cavendish Laboratory [Filed under O: Correspondence 1954, Box #300.16]
• Memorandum from LP [dictated by LP and signed in his absence by Wulf] to Carl Anderson RE: Encloses copies of an application for a grant to the NSF for support of research on configurations of polypeptide chains in proteins, with himself as the principal investigator. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]

• Letter from K. S. Pitzer to LP RE: Reply to LP's question about a student who would like to commence graduate work without receiving a B.S.; Berkeley would be happy to have such a student if recommend highly by LP. [Letter from LP March 11, 1954] [Filed under P: Individual Correspondence, Box #308.7]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to LP, AHP and Linda RE: Suggestions for Linda's year abroad [LP's letter March 17, 1954; LP's next letter April 2, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  23 March 1954

  Dear Mamma, Daddy and Linda,

  I hope this arrives. Thank you for you letters. I have just spoken to John Pringle. If Linda were to come here she would have to be a research student and would have to be a member of Griton or Newhaven. It is doubtful whether she would get in. She could go to the Technical School, where I should learn Italian and where all the continental girls study English.

  Oxford has perhaps some special system. I must write Dorothy anyway.

  She could get a job. The library in cataloging or thorough the placement bureau or the ministry of labour.

  The University of Lausanne is set up for just such occasions. It would be better than Geneva, I think. Student Hostils etc. And short term courses.

  If Linda wants to live here with me, we can keep her busy. Either a job, or mixture with lectures. No end of interesting people and lectures and books. I must know so I can get a place to live pretty soon. Perhaps she should come here with me. She can learn a lot, keep busy, and enjoy herself. I have to admit the winter here is hell. She is perhaps a little beyond the collegiate stage now, and a purely collegiate place like Tbingen would bore her after a bit.

  Do you want to cycle this summer? A mixture of cycle and train? Maria will be a little busy she says. She will be in Oxford in a fortnight or so. I shall she her.

  I has a sort of feeling that Mrs. Kristensen likes me. It is very nice of you to make me a package and of her to bring it. I shall look forward to it.

  Much love,

  (XXXOOO)¹⁰⁰⁰⁰ Peter

• Memorandum from C.D. Anderson to Committee on Contracts RE: Asks for their opinion on the attached proposal on research on configurations of polypeptide chains in proteins submitted by LP. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]

• Itinerary: LP leaves Dayton, Ohio for Kansas City; arrives in Kansas City at 11:09 AM; stays at the Hotel State; AHP leaves Dayton and arrives in Spokane at 5:00 PM [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder 1.12]
• LP Notes to Self RE: "The crystal structure of hydrogen fluoride"; "The crystal structures of CaCu₂Cl₃ and CsAg₂I₃"; "The microwave spectra, structure, and dipole moment of stable pentaborane"; "Determination of some carbon-chlorine bond dissociation energies"; "The near infrared spectrum and the internuclear distances of nitrous oxide"; "The librational heat capacity of ice and of heavy ice"; "The crystal structure of ammonium oxide"; Hexagonal urea-hydrocarbon crystals"; "The stereochemistry of molecules containing the C=C=N group: the crystal structure of N-methyl-2, 2-dimethyl sulfonyl vinylidineamine"; "Refinement of a non-centrosymmetrical structure: sodium nitrite"; "The crystal structure of ethylene carbonate"; "The infrared spectrum and molecular constants of Dbr"; "Residual entropy of the polar structure of ice"; "Polar versus non-polar ice"; "The crystal structure of dipotassium nitroacetate"; "Crystal structures of heterocyclic compounds"; "A hexagonal modification of a salt of Millon's base"; "The crystal structure of tropolone hydrochloride"; "The crystal structure of 1, 3, 5-triphenyl benzene" [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945-1992), Box #10.003, Folder 3.7]
• Letter from E. B. Wilson to LP RE: Wilson is concerned with the Editorial Board's consideration of copyrighting the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is against it. A brief report on statistical data in the Proceedings is enclosed. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from R. V. Bartz, Executive Director, C. I. T., to Dr. L. A. Sweet, Vice President, Parke, Davis & Co., cc: LP RE: Informs that LP will be away during his visit and the Dr. Beadle would enjoy spending time with him. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.028, Folder #28.3]
• Letter from T. Duckett Jones, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation to LP RE: Thanks for letter of evaluation of the Deustch brothers and Phillips. [LP's letter to Jones March 16, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation–Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence, 1954-1959), Box #15.002, Folder 2.1]

• Itinerary: LP at a Symposium on Hemoglobin, 2 PM, Hotel President; AHP leaves Spokane and arrives in Portland at 5:40 PM [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder 1.12]
• Letter from Donald B. Prentice to LP RE: Requesting confirmation that LP does not receive royalties from article published in Series VI of "Science in Progress" because it had been given as a Silliman Lecture. [LP's reply March 31, 1954] [Filed under S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #375.3]
• Letter from E.E. Anderson to LP RE: Invitation to stay at Deep Springs, CA. [Reply from LP April 5, 1954] [Filed under A: Correspondence 1954, Box #12.20].
• Newspaper Photo with Caption: "Chemical Authority and Molecule Model", Kansas City (Kansas) Star, March 25, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.50]

• Itinerary: LP leaves Kansas City and arrives in Portland at 5:10 PM [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder 1.12]
• Letter from Daniel Deutsch to LP RE: Request to be a reference for Deutsch in an application for a research grant from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation in New York. [Filed under C: Correspondence, 1954 Box #74.22].
• Letter from G. Scheibe to LP RE: Comments on LP's new book GENERAL CHEMISTRY and talks about Mr. Bruchners scholarship application. Letter in German [Letter from GF. Schiebe to LP March 26, 1954, reply from LP to Schiebe April 16, 1954] [Filed B correspondence 1954, Box #37.21].
• Letter from Jean Sanford, W.H. Freeman and Co., to LP . RE: Sanford says that within a few weeks they will be printing a circular on LP's chemistry texts. She wants to know if the enclosed copy of it accurately summarizes the changes in the second edition. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1953b.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Smoking-Cancer Link Seen by Famed Scientist", Salt Lake City (Utah) Deseret News and Telegram, March 26, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.50]

• Letter to LP and Harvey A. Itano from Abe Fadem RE: Cites the carbon monoxide as the source of many degenerative diseases; requests that LP and Itano do work to stop or decrease carbon monoxide use. Enclosed is a letter Fadem wrote to the NY Times explaining his ideas about carbon monoxide at greater length (March 18, 1954). [LP's reply April 21, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
• Newspaper Clipping: "McCarthy as Malenkov Prober HST Proposal", Oregon Journal, March 27, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.50]

• AHP writes cheque to: Elizabeth Gillette amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to Linda Pauling RE: Peter writes to discuss a few details of Linda's upcoming visit. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  28 III 54

  Dearest Linda,

  Thanks very much for you letter and the pictures which I enjoyed very much.

  It seems to me not coming because you do not do enough work to graduate is a pretty poor kettle of fish. There fore enough of this diddle-daddle.

  OK. You come the 5^th here. I am seeking a car next week. Only 22 miles/Imp gallon. But very fast and exciting. I am unsure whether Linus really wants to put up the capital, as he just shelled out for an immense car I just bought. Too big and expensive for us. So you have to have some money. Or do you want to go by bicycle? Might be letter? How long are you staying? D o you want a job? You have to get one. Too scatter brained just to be let loose. I'll see what I can do . Best skiing at Easter. We shall go to Norway for skiing Easter 1955. I know some people.

  Do you think we should have a car? Too much expense and worry. I have work to do.

  Much love,

  Peter

  XXXOOO

• Itinerary: LP and AHP leave Portland and arrive in Los Angeles at 2:40 PM [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder 1.12]
• Letter from Robert Ballinten? to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.77]
• Letter from S. D. Cornell, National Academy of Sciences to A. R. Todd RE: Arrangements for Todd's visit to the U. S. for symposium on nucleic acids. [Todd's letter March 17, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Walter E. Quigley, Veterans' Good Government League to LP RE: Requesting any and all data pertinent to LP's plan to use atomic energy to distill water. Quigley is concerned with irrigating sea water to the dry southwest. [LP's reply April 8, 1954] [Filed under Q: Correspondence, Box #324.2]
• Memorandum from A.H. Walter to LP RE: ONR/Washington is requesting that a proposal be submitted as soon as possible for extension of Contract Noonr-24432 (Chemistry 27) for one year, through November 30, 1955, with additional funds not exceeding $18,000. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.17]

• Letter from LP to Bryce Crawford, W.H. Eberhardt, and W.N. Lipscomb. [Filed under C: Correspondence, 1954 Box #74.22]

  30 March 1954

  Prof. Bryce Crawford, Jr.

  Prof. W. H. Eberhardt

  Prof. W. N. Lipscomb, Jr.

  Dear Bryce, Bill, and Bill:

  I have been happy to see your letter of 8 January - it arrived while I was away on a trip, and it has taken some time for me to get down to the job of answering the letters that came during that period.

  I have read with such interest your paper on the boron hydrides. It seems to me to be a good job.

  Also, I am very pleased with the mnemonic that you have formulated.

  Cordially yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Prof. Gino DiCastro, Italy RE: LP sends him the requested autographed photo [Filed under D: Correspondence 1954, Box #98.19]
• Letter from LP to Prof. S. D. Porteus RE: Thanking him for and returning his reprints; apologizes that a newspaper interview he gave did not help the University of Hawaii, but he will continue to be interested in its progress in the future. [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from Lp to Hugh W. Handsfield, editor at McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. RE: Telling the publishing company that Karplus will be working with him and Wilson on the quantum mechanics book second edition. And then sadly states that they will very unlikely be done by the aforementioned time line and won't be done by summer 1955, but more likely would be 1956 summer. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, Unpb.7]
• Letter from Samuel J. Prigal to Albert Einstein, cc: LP RE: request for leadership in peace actions [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.75]

• AHP writes cheque to: Westridge School amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Detlev W. Bronk, President of the National Academy of Sciences to LP RE: Discussing questions about the publication of the Proceedings, including the transfer of publishing responsibility to the University of Chicago Press, the election of members residing in Chicago to the Editorial Board and also the issue of copyright. [LP's reply April 5, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to Donald B. Prentice, Treasure of Sigma Xi RE: LP states no mention of royalties was ever made to him in connection with his article published in Series VI of "Science in Progress" [Letter from Prentice March 25, 1954] [Filed under S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #375.3]
• Letter from LP to Jean Sanford, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP is satisfied with the summary Sanford has prepared. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1953b.1]
• Letter from LP to Morris J. Spivack RE: LP cannot recommend Spivack's paper (March 18, 1954) for publication as he does not understand it [Letter from Spivack March 18, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Prof. J. T. Randall RE: Answer to Randall's letter of December 16, 1953; updates Randall on work in LP's labs pertaining to nucleic acids (esp. deoxycytidine-5' phosphate. [Memo from R. B. Corey March 19, 1954] [Filed under R: Individual Correspondence, Box #326.6]
• Letter from LP to Richard Bear. [Letter from Richard Bear to LP March 9, 1954, reply from LP to Bear March 31, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]

  31 March 1954

  Dr. Richard S. Bear

  Department of Biology

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Cambridge 39, Massachusetts

  Dear Dr. Bear:

  Thanks for your letter about insulin fibrils.

  As to your question about our model for collagen, our situation has not changed greatly from what it was last September, but nevertheless it has changed, and is changing. I reported that we had made a completely exhaustive study of possible single-chain configurations of trans amide groups forming two thirds of the maximum number of hydrogen bonds, and had found some promising structures, which, however, had not yet been tested sufficiently. Now all of the structures have been eliminated except one. It looks good, but the evidence in favor of it is not yet conclusive.

  The principles that we used in our study would eliminate the Crick model very easily.

  Dr. Schroeder is continuing his work on the residue sequence in collagen, but does not have any results about fragments four residues long, - at any rate he has not been willing to communicate such results to me.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from R. C. Gibbs, Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Office of Ordnance Research, National Research Council to LP RE: Requests LP's help in evaluating a research proposal submitted by R. K. Sheline; memorandum enclosed. [LP's reply April 6, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Research Council, 1950-1992), Box #14.028, Folder 28.1]
• Letter from William. W. Davis, The Lilly Research Laboratories to LP RE: Thanking him for effort on behalf of Dr. Swingle's publication, now in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Memorandum from C.D. Anderson to L.A. DuBridge RE: Attaches a proposal on research on configurations of polypeptide chains in proteins submitted by LP with the approval of the Committee of Governmental and Industrial Contracts. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]
• Offprint, Press Release: "A Statement of Principles for the Defense of Democracy Against McCarthyism" [LP Biographical: Box 2.040, Folder 40.15]