Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred Allen. October 19, 1954. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• AHP writes cheque to: Bunnell's House of Bourbon amount $56.62 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: California Building Maintenance amount $27.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: F. C. Nash & Company amount $.4.04 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP Notes to Self RE: "Refinement of the Crystal Structure of Oxamide"; "The Structure of SiF₄" [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945-1992), Box #10.003, Folder 3.7]
• LP writes cheque to: Victor Martin amount $159.47 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from A.H. Walter to the National Science Foundation, cc: LP RE: Encloses fifteen copies for the proposal “Investigations Requiring the Use of an Analytical Ultracentrifuge” for a period of five years at a cost of $40,325. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Fred J. Allen. [LP's letter to Dr. Fred J. Allen October 14, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3]

  19 October 1954

  Professor F. J. Allen

  Department of Chemistry

  Purdue University

  Lafayette, Indiana

  Dear Fred:

  I don't remember whether I answered your letter in which you asked about the chance of your coming west for a year. I believe that you wrote that you would be free next year (1955-56), and were planning to come west.

  Would you be interested in spending the year, or part of it, here? I don't know what our situation will be, but I think that we shall have funds that would permit your appointment on a research job. I have a feeling that the job that I would be able to offer you would be in biochemistry. I have two men now working on the quantitative study of the combination of alkyl isocyanides with hemoglobin and myoglobin, and I might well want to continue this work in 1955-56. The work involves adding small measured amounts of alkyl isocyanide to a hemoglobin solution, and then making a series of spectrophotometric curves, using the Cary instrument. From the curves equilibrium constants are calculated. These equilibrium constants, in their dependence on the nature of the alkyl side chain, provide interesting information about the structure of the protein molecules. At any rate, whether or not the isocyanide work needs to be continued, there probably would be some similar job that needs to be done, with money available to permit the appointment to be made. If you wanted to do this work, we probably could allocate about $450 a month for salary for you. I shall not know for a few months, however, whether or not the funds will be available definitely.

  I think that you might find work in this biochemical field rather interesting.

  Cordially yours

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to John T. Edsall RE: reply to Edsall's letter of October 14, 1954; Scheinberg explained his first sentence of his paper satisfactorily; also agrees that it does not seem Roche is qualified to write a review on abnormal hemoglobin, LP suggests Itano instead. [Edsall's letter October 14, 1954] [Filed under E: Individual Correspondence, Box #106.5]
• Letter from Ray Bowen to LP RE: Question on wether hydrogen atoms are attached to carbon chains, or with only other hydrogen atoms that are attached to other oxygen or nitrogen atoms. Examples of structures are typed on letter. [Letter from Ray Bowen to LP October 19, 1954, reply from LP to Bowen October 25, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from Rosalind Franklin to LP RE: Thanking LP for hospitality during her visit to Pasadena and Caltech. [Reply from LP October 26, 1954] [Filed under F: Individual Correspondence, Box #121.1]
• Memorandum from LP to A.H. Walter RE: Encloses 9 copies of a proposal for extension of Contract N6onr-24432 from 6-1-56 through 5-31-57 and asks that he sends them to ONR in Washington. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.17]
• Memorandum from Robert B. Corey to George W. Beadle, cc: LP RE: Encloses two copies of a letter from Edward W. Hilton concerning the proposal “Investigations Requiring the Use of an Analytical Ultracentrifuge” and asks that the information requested in the letter be compiled. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.2]
• Proposal for Extension RE: Contract N60nr-24432, “The Structure on Metals and Intermetallic Compounds,” for period 6-1-56 through 5-31-57. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.17]