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• AHP Daily Diary Entry: List of dates in October with corresponding number of bags [Filed under AHP: Box 3.005, Folder 5.4]
• Article: "Premios y Distinciones", Ciencia y Tecnologia, October - December, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.101]
• Typescript: Smog. October 1954. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1954a.11]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pearl M. Jordan amount $50.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Julian M. Sturtevant to LP RE: Seeks permission to list LP as a reference on his Guggenheim Foundation application [LP's reply October 6, 1954] [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #370.5]
• Letter from R. B. Shipley, Director of the Passport Office to LP RE: Denying LP a passport based on his activities in the years following WWII which indicate Communist support. [LP's reply October 5, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., to LP . RE: Freeman is sending on his comments on Chapter 1, and says that this is the only copy he has, so he needs LP to send it back. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from Walton Van Winkle, Jr. of Ethicon, Inc. to Robert Corey RE: Answer to Corey's letter of August 13, 1954 asking for samples to observe x-ray diffraction of extruded and chemically altered collagen; notifies Corey that he has sent him eight samples and provides a detailed description of each. [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence, Box # 65]

• AHP writes cheque to: First Unitarian Church Fund amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Mira Loma Mutual Water Co. amount $22.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]

• AHP writes cheque to AHP amount $17.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $15.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: American Indian Fund amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $4.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Coleman Chamber Music Association amount $16.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Director of Internal Revenue amount $10.36 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Eleanor Roosevelt Fund amount $2.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Elizabeth Gillette amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Hoelscher's, Inc. amount $100.94 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Jean Poole amount $18.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Modern Color, Inc. amount $13.39 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc. amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. amount $12.23 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Star News amount $7.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Poppy Cleaners and Dyers amount $11.52 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern Counties Gas Co. amount $3.85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: William Taylor amount $181.36 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from A. Schwartz to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.124]
• Letter from F. Joliot-Curie, President of the World Federation of Scientific Workers to LP RE: Joliot-Curie outlines goals recognized by the Executive Congress of the Federation [Filed under J: Individual Correspondence 1954, Box #190.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. F.J. Allen, Purdue University, RE: LP enclosed a copy of a letter he sent to Freeman, and hopes that Allen will share his opinion on it. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Fred J. Allen RE: enclosed letter to W. H. Freeman concerning Chapters 6 and 7 of the second edition of College Chemistry, including proposal for a new Chapter 7. [LP's letter to Dr. Fred. J. Allen October 14, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP asks Freeman his opinion about Chapter 7, and whether he should change it to focus on the chemistry of carbon. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to AHP RE: Linda has returned; Peter and she are settling into the flat. Peter does not think that he can be a teacher or writer. He thinks that Crellin should go into medicine as pure science is too difficult. Peter likes Jim Watson although "he may be getting conceited" and Francis Crick is back and "talks as ever." [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  4 October 1954

  Dear Mamma,

  Thank you for your letters. I am sorry not to have written. I was taking x-ray photographs madly and then a two week course on computors, I am flat painting now; Linda has returned. Soon I must take more photographs. We live in a semi-basement. The kitchen is quite nice, with an immense fireplace about 4ft high and 6 ft wide, which is ruined by having a boiler (coal) in it, but we are painting it. I sleep in the sitting room, which is about 15x15, white, ugly. It has a tile fire place which is disgusting. The ceiling is too low. Linda has a little bedroom.

  I am not sure I can be groomed to teach chemistry or write a books. I could lecture I think on elementary chemistry, but I cannot now at least write. Besides, what about Norman Davidson who is a punk lecturer but is permanent? Besides I am not sure I want to. Thank you for writing me though.

  It is wise for Crellin to do Medicine. It is too difficult to do pure science. He might not be smart enough and the goal is too great. He need not do pure science but write or administer or advise, and he might not suffer the way I do but it is still difficult, too difficult I think.

  I shall get a dark grey flannel suit soon, I think. I need some new clothes. You remember that grey blue striped suit (a non zig-zag herring bone) suit we bought in New York? It is very nice, but not pure wool and is getting worn.

  The college will allow me to eat supper at home. The rules require eating in the Hall, but I fixed it.

  I like Jim Watson, though I can see he may be getting conceited. He adds to Cambridge, though. Francis Crick is back. Talks as ever.

  Marriette is acting up. Bob bounces around Europe, though I have not seen him. The Fowler's are here. We have a lot of fun together. He has a Guggenheim and a Fulbright!

  Much love,

  Peter

• Letter from Prof. Dr. E Thilo to LP RE: Thanking LP for the copies of The Nature of the Chemical Bond and General Chemistry [LP's letter September 8, 1954; LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #407.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: F. C. Nash & Company amount $59.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Co. amount $18.16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Tide Water Associated Oil Company amount $5.67 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Deposit receipt for LP's account with Southern Commercial and Savings Bank: Amount $79.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Victor Martin amount $75.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Ephraim Banks, Sigma Xi, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn to LP RE: Inviting LP to lecture to his Sigma Xi chapter while on his trip East [Filed under S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #375.3]
• Letter from Harold F. Blum, Princeton University to LP RE: Enclosing copy of manuscript at the suggestion of Harold Urey for LP's comments. [LP's reply October 11, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Irving H. Flamm to LP RE: Brief note about an article that was enclosed. [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
• Letter from LP to the U.S. Secretary of State. [Reply to Ruth B. Shipley's letter of October 1, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]

  5 October 1954

  The Secretary of State

  Washington 25, D.C. Ref: Fl30-Pauling, Linus

  Dear Sir:

  I have today received a letter, dated 1 October 1954, from R. B. Shipley, Director, Passport Office, to which I now reply.

  In the letter it is stated that "the issue of a passport to you is precluded under Section 51.135 (b) as that section is amplified by Section 51.141 (b) of the passport regulations."

  I wish first to point out that my application to you, in my letter of 7 June 1954, was not for issue of a passport to me, but for validation of my passport, No. 698609, for a trip to various countries, contemplated for the period December 1954 to April 1955, to permit me to give scientific lectures and visit scientific laboratories in these countries. My passport, No. 698609, was issued on 14 July 1952. I have used it for trips to European countries in July and August 1952, April 1953, and July and August 1953, and for a trip to European countries and Israel in October and November 1953.

  In the letter of 1 October 1954 from Mrs. Shipley it is stated that I may appeal the decision of the Passport Office to the Board of Passport Appeals. I have decided, after consideration of my experience with the Department of State last year, not to attempt to make the trip, during the period December 1954 to April 1955, for which validation of my passport was requested. In the fall of 1953 I applied for validation of my passport for a trip to India, Japan, and other countries, to deliver scientific lectures. The Department of State failed to take either positive or negative action on this application, and finally, two weeks after I was scheduled to leave the United States, and when it had become impossible for me to present the most important of my scheduled lectures because the time for giving them had passed, I withdrew the application for validation of my passport. The failure of the Department of State to take action on my application in time to permit me either to make the scheduled trip or to cancel my scheduled lectures before their extensive public announcement in Greece, Israel, and India caused me to suffer significant financial loss (traveling expenses for my wife and me to New York and Washington and return to Pasadena, and living expenses in New York and Washington), personal embarrassment, and damage to my reputation. I feel that I cannot take the chance of a repetition of this occurrence, and I have accordingly written to the universities and scientific organizations that have invited me to say that I shall not carry out the proposed travel for scientific purposes this winter.

  The Secretary of State Ref: Fl30-Pauling, Linus Page 2 5/10/54

  I am planning tentatively to make a trip, for scientific purposes, to India, Japan, and other countries during the period December 1955 to April 1956. I shall later ask for validation for this trip. The countries involved are not all the same as in the proposed travel this winter. In particular, I have received an invitation to give scientific lectures in universities in South Africa during March and April of 1956.

  It will be some time before I shall be able to make detailed plans for the proposed travel in 1955-6. As soon as I have definite information about this travel I shall apply for validation of my passport for this purpose.

  Yours truly,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., to LP . RE: Freeman wants to emphasize that the pedagogical quality of the text will be crucial. He adds that the teachers who will look at the examination copies of the revision are going ot be overly critical on this point. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Memorandum from R. V. Barts to LP RE: Discusses Industrial Associates Conference on the Biology of Protein Structure and Synthesis. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.028, Folder #28.3]

• Application for Leave of Absence by LP RE: Requests leave in order to attend the Indian Science Congress at the invitation of the Government of India. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.020, Folder #20.5]
• LP Note to Self RE: Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Discusses that Dr. Rosalind Franklin has shown LP her x-ray photographs of tactoids on tobacco mosaic virus and discusses them in relation to a helix. [Filed under LP Science: (Manuscript Notes by LP re: Chemical Bonds, 1948-1953), Box #3.005, Folder 5.28]
• LP writes cheque to: American Association for the Advancement of Science amount $6.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Braun Corp. amount $11.74 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: H. A. Jones amount $550.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., Princeton University Press, to LP RE: Glad that he has decided to give them a manuscript of his speech. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.19]
• Letter from Jacob Joseph Blum to LP RE: Request for a copy of a manuscript of LP's on the effect of electrostatic forces on the minimum energy configurations of the -helix. [Letter from Jacob Blum to LP October 6, 1954, reply from LP to Blum October 12, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Allen H. Levy, The Boston City Hospital RE: Accepting invitation to speak at the Hospital on "Abnormalities of Hemoglobin Molecules in Sickle Cell Anemia and Related Disease," but postponing the date into the spring. [Levy's letter September 29, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to F. Arndt. [Filed under A: Correspondence 1954, Box #12.20]

  6 October 1954

  Prof. F. Arndt

  118 Muallim Naci Caddesi

  Istanbul-OrtakÖy

  Turkey

  Dear Professor Arndt:

  I am writing to say that I have had difficulty in arranging for the trip around the world that my wife and I had hoped to make this winter. I have accordingly abandoned the trip, with great regret, and we shall hence not see you in Istanbul.

  It was a great pleasure to us to have you here. I may mention that Professor Serdaroglu visited us a couple of weeks ago.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Hans-Joachim Bruchner RE: Acceptance of request to critique Bruchner's thesis. [Letter from Hans-Joachim Bruchner to LP September 28, 1954, reply from LP to Bruchner October 6, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from LP to Julian M. Sturtevant RE: LP is glad to serve as a reference for Sturtevant's Guggenheim Foundation application [Sturtevant's letter October 1, 1954] [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #370.5]
• Letter from LP to Prof. R. A. McConnell RE: Thanks for copy of Modern Experiments in Telepathy which LP does not seem to believe has any significant value. [McConnell's letter September 10, 1954; LP's next letter October 26, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from Paul Zamecnik to LP RE: Thanking him for information on Itano, but Itano has informed he probably would not take the position. He thanks LP also, for recommending Dr. Allison, who most likely will take the position [LP's cable September 2, 1954] [Filed under Z: Individual Correspondence 1954, Box #464.3] AHP writes cheque to: Pearl M. Jordan amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Richard S. Bear to LP RE: Harold Wyckoff will remain in Boston until summer 1955, but LP should contact him next spring if he is still interested in offering him a position. Bear also requests a set of reprints of LP's papers on polypeptide and polynucleotide structure [Letter from LP September 28, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from William R. Bidner, American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, to LP RE: Lists several speaking engagements for LP to give on behalf of the Institute. [LP's reply October 12, 1954] [Filed under W: Organizational Correspondence, Box #441.4]

• AHP writes cheque to: Bee Balser House of Health amount $8.25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Concert Hall Security, Inc. amount $39.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Interoffice Memo from LP to Charles Newton. [Newton's memo September 7, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 1.030, Folder 30.4]

  Charles Newton Linus Pauling 7 October 1954

  Friday evening lectures

  Here are some suggestions for Friday evening demonstration lectures by people in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. I shall in a few days send over some additional suggestions.

  Gunnar Bergman: Diffraction Methods of Determining the Structure of Molecules.

  J. D. Roberts: Title to be supplied by him.

  Bruce H. Sage: Some Characteristics of the Critical State.

  Allen Lein (Visiting Professor from Northwestern University Medical School): Iodine Metabolism.

  Oliver R. Wulf: Title to be supplied by him.

  I may mention that I talked with Professor Sage about the motion picture "Artillery Rockets" shown by him in 1951. He said that he would prefer not to present this motion picture, partially because it was made by the Lauritsens, and he thought that one of the Lauritsens should properly present it.

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. Walter Lehmann RE: Stating times most convenient to visit LP at Gates and Crellin Laboratories. [Lehmann letter October 7, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from Charles H. Townes, Columbia University to LP RE: Enclosed manuscript on NO and magnetic hyperfine structure [LP's reply October 14, 1954] [Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #408.2]
• Letter from Dr. Walter J. Lehmann to LP RE: Requesting a visit to the Gates and Crellin Laboratories during his stay in Pasadena. [Beatrice Wulf Reply October 7, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence Box 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from Esther Everett Lape, Member in charge, of the American Foundation Studies RE: Invitation to LP to join the Committee of Consultants, for the American Foundation Studies based on his contributions in the Foundation's forthcoming study of medical research. [LP reply October 18, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from Giovanni Giacometti to LP RE: Restates the matters of his letter of July 16, 1954 as LP has not yet answered it. [Giacometti's letter October 7, 1954; LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under G Correspondence 1954, Box #140.18]
• Letter from John Kendrew to LP RE: Requesting recommendation for Dr. Joseph Kraut; updating on Peter's work in the lab (his attitude is much improved). Kendrew's lab has not solved the heavy atom problem for myoglobin yet (Peter will try out some of LP's suggestions) [LP's reply October 14, 1954] [Filed under K: Individual Correspondence, Box #197.16]
• Letter from LP to Arthur E. Fox, Princeton University, RE: Informs of his speech topic and the days he plans to deliver them. Inquires about the audience. [Letter from Fox to LP October 14, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.19]
• Letter from LP to Arthur Simon, W.H Freeman and Co., RE: LP thanks Simon for sending a copy of the 1954 printing. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1953b.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. F. A. Long, Cornell University, RE: Informs that he and AHP are planning to come to Ithaca for two days and states what days and topic would be best for his seminar talk. [Letter from Long to LP October 11, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.16]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Paul R. Pariseau, A. C. S. RE: Accepting invitation to speak to the A.C. S. on February 4, 1955 on "Abnormal Forms of Human Hemoglobin Molecules." [Next Letter from A. C. S. November 16, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2] [Also Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder 6.4]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Charles Kittel RE: Inviting Kittel to come to Pasadena to lecture during January or February; describes lab and work of people there. [Filed under K: Correspondence 1954, Box #200.19]
• Letter from LP to Ralph Spitzer, University of Manitoba RE: Inquiring about Spitzer's plans for the future and suggesting he might apply for a position at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. [Spitzer's reply October 18, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.034, Folder 34.4]
• Letter from LP to Sir Shanti S. Bhatnagar, Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Natural Resources and Scientific Research RE: Apologies for inability to travel to India during the previous year (due to the inability to receive a passport); expresses regret that he is still unable to receive a passport and will probably have to defer trip to India from 1955 to 1956. [Reply November 13, 1954] [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.15]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP is returning Freeman's comments on Chapter 1. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from Victor A. Lewinson, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, to Beatrice Wulf RE: Requesting a Caltech Chemistry Dept. contribution number and other publication details for Berni Alder's "The Radial Distribution Function Calculated by the Monte-Carlo Method for a Hard-Sphere Fluid." [Wulf's reply October 14, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from William H. Freeman, Freeman and Co. Publishers to Stockholders (incl. LP) RE: Annual report to stockholders-Freeman and Co. had a very good year in 1953-54. [Filed under LP Safe: Box 2.009, Folder 9.34c]
• Memorandum from LP to Charles Newton, C. I. T., RE: Discusses Friday evening lectures. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box #1.030, Folder #30.4]

• AHP writes cheque to: E. K. Wood Lumber Co. amount $6.62 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Friends of the Huntington Library amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Model Grocery Co. Amount $5.89 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: National Child Labor Society amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Alan T. Waterman, Director, National Science Foundation to Dr. Lee A. DuBridge RE: Informs LP that LP’s research proposal “Configurations of Polypeptide Chains in Proteins” has been approved for $30,000 for three years. Describes the conditions of the grant. [Letter from DuBridge to Waterman November 14, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]
• Letter from LP to Linus Pauling, Jr. and Anita Pauling. [Linus Jr.'s reply October 26, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 5.037, Folder 37.7]

  8 October 1954

  Dear Linus and Anita:

  I am writing to give you news - not very much because not too much has happened.

  First, Crellin seems to have had a fine time in Honolulu. He was with us only three or four days - Mama got him some new clothes, and we saw him off to Reed. I judge that he is getting along well there. He may not like to be in a place where it rains so much. I got tired of Portland when I was a boy.

  I had a letter from Mrs. Bilger, explaining why she had had some trouble with Crellin because he insisted on parking in the places reserved for faculty members. I judge that she was afraid that he might tell me a one-sided story. She also said that she regretted the new regulation that kept her from continuing as chairman of the chemistry department, but that she and Earl were looking forward to taking a trip around the world.

  Mama and I, by the way, are not goint [sic] to take our trip around the world this year. I have just had a letter from the State Department saying that they will not validate my passport for the trip. I have written the State Department that I have cancelled the trip, and am going to make plans for a trip from December 1955 to April 1956. The temper of the times seems to me not to be such as to make it worth while to try to appeal the decision.

  I have, by the way, been invited to come to South Africa for a month or six weeks in the spring of 1956. Even if we do not make the trip around the world, we may go to South Africa, assuming that the passport will be validated.

  Mama and I are going to Princeton next month. On 1 November we shall fly to New York and take the night train to Ithaca, staying two days - I shall give a talk there. Than we shall go to Princeton, for a couple of weeks. I am to give the Vanuxem Lectures there. President Dodds wrote that these lectures are the most important public lectures that Princeton University holds. I am planning to talk on molecular structure and biology - the molecular structure of biological molecules. Four lectures are to be given, and I have scheduled them for four successive days, toward the end of our stay. We are also planning to attend the meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and I am going to give a Sigma Xi lecture in Philadelphia and an American Chemical Society lecture in New York.

  I have been working hard on the preparation of a second edition of COLLEGE CHEMISTRY, all summer. Mr. Freeman thinks that if the job is well done, so that the book is more easily used by ordinary college students, the sales should be doubled. I have rewritten almost completely the first seven chapters, and have revised other chapters pretty extensively. Today I have been correcting proof of an article that is to appear in the American Scientist. I am feeling pretty mad right now, because I have had to make 100 changes in the proof - changing back a hundred changes that had been made by some editorial assistant in my manuscript. I remember that I had published one paper in the American Scientist before, several years ago, and that I was irritated then because changes were made in my manuscript. They were not so many as this time. In this case it was particularly bad of the editor to change the manuscript, because the same article is being published elsewhere, in a book, and I think that it would be funny if it appeared in two different forms. It is the speech that I gave at the opening session of the 13th International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry, in Stockholm, in July 1953. The opening session was held in the Concert House in Stockholm, and was attended by about 2500 people. It was quite an affair.

  Our house has been full of people today. Mama had the plumber here, repairing some faucets, and also a couple of men sanding and waxing the floor in the living room and study. She is getting ready for our Divisional tea, to be held on 23 October. We are going to have the chemistry picnic party on 30 October and on the afternoon of the same day we shall have a cocktail party for Bill Freeman and his wife.

  We had a visitor a couple of weeks ago from Turkey - Professor Serdaroglu. He and his wife are hoping to arrange to translate GENERAL CHEMISTRY into Turkish, but I judge that he wants to get Mr. Freeman to agree to allow them to do it without paying royalties, on the grounds that the Turkish sales would be small anyway. Last summer the arrangement was made for GENERAL CHEMISTRY to be translated into German - we had luncheon with the director of a publishing firm, Chemie Verlag, and discussed the matter with him, in Ludwigshafen, perhaps in Heidelberg (I think we had dinner with him in Heidelberg, and lunch in another city, whose name has slipped my mind now). Last week a young man came in, from Göttingen, the man who is making the German translation. He is staying here a few days.

  We have had several Japanese professors as visitors during the last two weeks, also. One of them is Professor Mizushima, who had tried to bring us some tussah silk worms when he came from Japan in June. Tussah silk worms are the wild silk worms - Corey and I had wanted to get some of them to compare them with Bombex mori. When Professor Mizushima arrived in Honolulu his package of silk worms was taken from him and dumped into the incinerator. I had not known that it would be necessary to get a permit before having them brought in. We have now arranged with Professor Mizushima to have one of his assistants get some tussah silk worms, extract the silk gland, and stretch it and roll it, and then to send us the samples of silk fibroin.

  I am on the Scientific Advisory Board of Massachusetts General Hospital again, and am planning to go to Boston on the 9th and 10th of December. I am to stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the way, and in Dallas, Texas, on the way back, each time to give a speech at a fund-raising dinner of the American Friends of the Weizmann Institute. I shall also go to Tucson the end of November, in order that I may speak there at a similar dinner.

  I remember that Crellin seemed disturbed, when he came home, by Jim's visit. In particular, he asked me if Mama had invited Jim to stay with you. I told him that the only thing that Mama had done was to answer some question that Jim asked her, as to whether you had really invited him. She said that she was sure that Crellin would not have invited him to come to stay with you without having had your permission. Also, Mama and I had thought that Jim was going to visit you for only a few days, and we were surprised when, at the last moment, he said, over the telephone, that he was planning to stay for several weeks. I had a little talk with Crellin about inviting guests to stay in other people's houses: I said to him that we had had trouble in recent years with our children, who seemed to think that they were free to invite guests to come to Pasadena, and to stay with us. Crellin apparently was rather angry with Jim; he refused to talk with him over the telephone, when Jim phoned, and then, when he did talk, he was very curt with him. We have not seen Jim since his return from Honolulu.

  We have had a fence built along the north side of our property, and for 200 feet down the west side. It is a 5-foot grapestake fence, and it was built by Jack Benke and some of his friends. We paid Jack the standard rate, $2.25 per linear foot, but he did not do a very good job, and we are rather dissatisfied. He had never built a fence before, but we had thought that his experience with wood working would permit him to do a satisfactory job.

  We have been swimming nearly every day in the swimming pool, but it has been a bit cold the last few days, and we have not used it.

  I have a couple of men working with me on hemoglobin problems now. One of them is Dr. Allen Lein, who is Associate Professor of Physiology in the Medical School of Northwestern University. He is working on myoglobin, studying in particular the combination of myoglobin with the alkyl isocyanides, in order to determine whether or not the heme group is buried within the globin. The other is a post-doctoral research fellow, Dr. Murayama, who was a friend of Dr. Itano in the University of California. Dr. Marayama is making careful measurements of the equilibrium constants with the alkyl isocyanides of normal human hemoglobin and some of abnormal hemoglobins. Today he got a sample of blood from a patient with thalassemia major. There is some question as to whether thalassemia is a disease involving an abnormal hemoglobin or not. The evidence seems to be against it, so far, but I have been hoping that this tentative conclusion is wrong.

  During the summer a young man from Oxford stayed here, Dr. Anthony Allison. He is a medical man, in the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. His home is in Kenya, East Africa. He carried out a striking experiment last year. He injected 30 adult male Africans, in good health, with malaria parasites, and watched to see whether they would develop malaria or not. Of 15 normal individuals, 14 developed malaria, whereas of 15 sicklers (carriers of sickle cell anemia), only 2 developed malaria. He concluded that the abnormal hemoglobin present to the extent of about 40 percent in the blood of the sicklers protects them against malaria, and that this is the reason that the sickle-cell gene has continued to exist, despite the lethal character of the homozygous state.

  Pasadena people have been somewhat upset by an accident a few days ago. You may remember Rudy Caspers' son, Ronny Caspers -- I think that he was a classmate of Peter. Rudy Caspers had a 75-foot yacht, and Ronny Caspers was piloting it from Santa Barbara to Newport, a few nights ago, when he collided with a Coast Guard cutter. The yacht sank, and two of the five people aboard were drowned, including his wife. Ronny is about 23 years old, and his wife was 22 years old -- I don't know what her maiden name was.

  Professor Buwalda died a couple of months ago.

  Beadle and Mrs. Beadle are coming up to see us tonight. Mama is going to give Beadle a batch of our iris bulbs. She has been thinning them out.

  I am continuing to work on the problem of the structure of collagen, whenever I can get time from the job of writing COLLEGE CHEMISTRY.

  Much love from

  [Linus Pauling]

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Richard LaForce RE: LP wishes to discuss whether LaForce is still planning on working with the filed-emission electron microscope. [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from Margaret Cooper, W.H. Freeman and Co., to LP . RE: Cooper is sending on the most recent comment slips on General Chemistry, and just a few on College Chemistry. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from S. J. Singer, Yale to LP RE: Thanking LP for his hospitality in arranging his stay in Pasadena over the summer. Singer sends LP some slides and description of them concerning work with soluble antigen-antibody complexes [LP's reply October 18, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Walter Fritts amount $21.88 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to AHP RE: Peter's books and Linda's trunk arrived. Thanks AHP for the clothes and records. He is glad to have Linda with him. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  9 October 1954

  Dearest darling Mamma,

  We have had great surprises. On Friday the two furniture books came for which I thank you very much. I am busy reading them, though I do not think I shall get much chance to use the knowledge in my dealings with antique dealers. But Linda's trunk finally came, and we are very excited. The records are wonderful, but my new shirts are superb. I wore the Dacron one to a coffee party that night, and it was grand. I now must buy a charcoal grey flannel suit to go with my pink shirt. It will be superb, in the latest style. I shall have to wear brown suede though and I do not really like them. The socks are glorious, mine are all nylon and getting old, and these new one's are magnificent. They feel very good. I shall be very smart in a little while.

  We are almost through with the kitchen. The wood work is painted. The mess will be cleaned. The Stowes came for the weekend. They are great dullards. The are only interested in sex, intellectually of course. Good thing they are off in the provinces.

  Thank you for the back issues of Road and Track. They sent me a refund of four shillings. It is not too good a magazine and the older issues are better than the new ones.

  I must get back to work after a week of painting. I am a bit tired of Cambridge and would like to go away. I do not know when I can.

  I am glad to have Linda here. She is great fun and very nice. She works at home very well. I hope she learns as well. I shall try to encourage her.

  Many many thanks, dear Mamma, for all the wonderful surprises.

  Much love,

  Peter

• Letter from Richard W. Lippman, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council, L. A. Chapter of the National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc. to Dan H. Campbell, California Institute of Technology RE: Informing Campbell of immediate dinner meeting of the Council sponsored by LP at the Atheneum (Caltech) on October 26, 1954. [Report of meeting October 26, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc., 1954-1958), Box #14.026, Folder 26.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: "A Happy Life to 115 is Yours in 1999", Minneapolis (Minnesota) Tribune, October 9, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.57]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Understanding Functions is Man's Challenge", Minneapolis (Minnesota) Morning Tribune, October 9, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.56]

• AHP writes cheque to: Manor Market amount $50.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]

• Letter from Arthur E. Fox, Princeton University, to LP RE: Informs that he has passed this letter on to Mr. Wallet Evert to discuss subtitles and other information further. [Filed under LP Science: 1954.19]
• Letter from F. A. Long, Cornell University, to LP RE: Pleased that he and AHP will be visiting. Discusses where they will stay during their visit. [Letter from LP to Long October 7, 1954 [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s. 16]
• Letter from F.B. Isakson, Office of Naval Research to LP RE: Informs LP that renewal for one additional year from 12-1-55 to 11-30-56 of contract N6onr-24432, NR 017-411 has received approval of the Physics Branch and has been referred to the ONR Contract Division for negotiation pending receipt of a proposal from LP. [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 I. Herbert Scheinberg to LP RE: Concerning LP's letter to John Edsall about the paper on human hemoglobins. He apologizes for using the wrong nomenclature and also for the confusing wording of the introduction (he had no intention of discrediting LP in any way). [LP's reply October 20, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Albert Einstein RE: Informs Einstein about his upcoming visit to Princeton and hopes to see him while there. [Filed under E: Individual Correspondence, Box #107.1]
• Letter from LP to Harold F. Blum, Princeton University RE: LP returns Blum's manuscript with comments on several points he disagrees with, however he does agree with the general argument of the paper concerning amino acids and peptide chains. [Blum's letter October 5, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling RE: LP would like Peter's opinion of Charles Kittel, who was a Cambridge for three or four years, and who LP is considering to offer the professorship of physical chemistry at C. I. T. at AHP's suggestion. He would like Peter to inquire discreetly about him at Cambridge. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  11 October 1954

  Dear Peter:

  I am writing to you again because there is a chance that you could help us improve the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology.

  Here is some information that you should keep to yourself. You know that after the death of Professor Tolman John Kirkwood was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry here. He gave some very good graduate courses, and everything was going alone fine, until he resigned, to become chairman of the department in Yale. We have not appointed another professor of physical chemistry, and we should like to do so. I have had a hard time thinking of a physical chemist who was doing unusually outstanding work, in a filed of unusual promise for the future.

  Now we are considering the possibility of offering appointment as professor of physical chemistry to Charles Kittel. He is Professor of Physics at Berkeley. He is now 38 years old, and he has written a book on physics of the solid state. He uses it as a textbook for seniors and graduate students in the University of California. It seems to me to be a very good book.

  Mama and I got acquainted with him when we went to Idylwild this summer, to take part in the small conference on the magnetism of rocks. By the way, his last name is accented on the second syllable.

  I think that he is responsible for what is called cyclotron resonance in germanium. This is an experiment in which, if I understand correctly, electrons are made to move in circles inside a germanium crystal. They are, of course, electrons that have been excited into the upper band, usually unoccupied. They move in a circle because of the presence of a magnetic filed that is imposed on the crystal. They are accelerated by sending in microwaves, which correspond to the alternating electric potential between the dees in a cyclotron. I judge that he has done a number of other interesting things in solid state physics. His book shows that he has more of an appreciation of chemistry than many physicists have.

  I understand that he was asked if he would care to be considered as successor to Pryce in the chair of theoretical physics in Oxford. Now, here is where you come in. Kittel was in Cambridge for three or four years, I think. At any rate he got his bachelor’s degree in Cambridge, in 1938. The he took his Ph.D. in Wisconsin.

  You might inquire discreetly about him, and see whether the Cambridge people have any information that you think would be interesting to us, in making up our minds about how hard we should work to get him on our staff. I don’t know what college he was connected with. No doubt, however, the theoretical people in the Cavendish know about his work, and it might be worth while for you to find out what their opinion of him is.

  You may be interested to know that was Mama’s idea that we consider Kittel for appointment.

  Also, he married an English girl, in 1938, about the time when he got his bachelor’s degree. We have not met her.

  Mama has mentioned to me that you had asked her if Norman Davidson was going to continue teaching general chemistry. We have an agreement with him that sooner or later he will be transferred to the teaching of more advanced courses, probably physical chemistry. At the present time he gives a couple of advanced courses- I think one on reaction kinetics and one on radioactivity. I think that has been doing a good job handling the graduate assistants in the laboratory. Did you know that he is to receive a medal? He will be given the California award in a day or two, by the California Section of the American Chemical Society. It is a gold medal that is given to a young Californian chemist, each year. He is to receive it because of his work on the rates of extremely fast reactions – he measures them by studying the properties of a shock wave moving through a tube containing the gas that can undergo chemical reaction, and studying the shock waves spectroscopically. Also, Professor Swift will receive a national award, the Fisher award in analytical chemistry, given by the national American Chemical Society.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Prof. Leonora N. Bilger RE: reply to Bilger's letter of September 1, 1954; discusses Crellin's work at her lab in Honolulu. Also, he writes of his own lab and staff and his current project on the structure of collagen. [Bilger's letter September 1, 1954] [Filed under B: Individual correspondence, Box #27.17]
• Mailed deposit receipt from LP's account with Southern Commercial and Savings Bank: amount $279.51 [LP Biographical: Box 4.023, Folder 23.3]
• Newspaper: The Quest, Reed college, Vol. 44 No. 3, Oct. 11, 1954 [Filed under AHP: Box 3.022, Folder 22.6]

• Letter from Charles Kittel to LP RE: Reply to LP's invitation of October 7, 1954; will speak to LP's division about work at UC Berkeley, but declines offer to give a lecture series at this time. Also discusses the circumstance of solid state physics in the UC system. [LP's letter October 7, 1954; LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under K: Correspondence 1954, Box #200.19]
• Letter from Crellin Pauling to LP, AHP and Linda RE: Details of a hike at Eagle Creek (near Bonneville Dam). He will try to sell the Mercedes at Christmas. Crellin and Lucy bought a cream and sugar set which now sits on his mantle. [LP Biographical: Box 5.048, Folder 48.5]
• Letter from Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences to LP RE: Apologizes for not writing sooner. Discusses the problems raised with the Council at their October meeting, especially that of charges for articles of certain lengths. [Letters from LP to Bronk August 12, 1954, October 31, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Harry L. Fisher, American Chemical Society to LP RE: Describes the changes in the Bylaws that have made student membership less expensive and that have extended its scope. Asks that he sends in the name of the departmental representative if it has not already been done. [Letter from LP to Fisher October 20, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder 6.4]
• Letter from LP to Jacob Joseph Blum RE: LP cites he never wrote a manuscript on the effect of electrostatic forces for the -helix, but he suggests someone who may have. [Letter from Jacob Blum to LP October 6, 1954, reply from LP to Blum October 12, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  12 October 1954

  Dear Peter:

  We had a visit from Rosalind Franklin the other day, and she showed some beautiful x-ray photographs. I have been thinking about them since then, and you might be interested in some vague ideas that I have had.

  First, she has made a wonderful photograph of oriented tactoids of tobacco mosaic virus. The photograph is like one obtained by Bernal and Fankuchen about 15 years ago, but is much better. The material is tobacco mosaic virus plus some water. A liquid crystalline phase is produced, which is birefringent, although fluid. This is due to the lining up of the long rod-like molecules parallel to one another. The molecules are about 150 A in diameter, and I think that there is about a 100 A layer of water in between them, so that they are about 250 A apart. They are in hexagonal packing, with the axes nicely parallel to one direction, but with arbitrary orientation of the molecules around there axes, and arbitrary location of the ends in the axial direction. As a result, the x-ray photograph shows excellent layer lines, with a spacing corresponding to an identity distance of 68 A. The layer lines are, however, essentially continuous, and their intensities represent the form factor of a single rod-like molecule. You remember that Watson interpreted Bernal and Fankuchen's photograph a couple of years ago as showing probably 31 units in 3 turns of a helix.

  She made the photograph by sucking the liquid crystalline material into a fine capillary, and then allowing it to stand for a few weeks, in the sealed-off capillary. The glass walls produce orientation of the rods in the direction of the axis of the capillary. The structure is apparently quite perfect.

  We should like to do something similar on the tactoids formed by sickle-cell-anemia hemoglobin, but I am not sure that anyone here has good enough technique and enough patience to do the job. Also, our microfocus tube is not yet in operation. Dr. Franklin took photographs on a microfocus tube, using exposure times of about 40 hours.

  It has occurred to me that it might be worth while to investigate some ordinary liquid crystals with x-rays. I have a dim memory that there is some stuff in the literature about diffraction patterns of liquid crystals, but I have not looked it up. Probably some German did it.

  I do not remember what the good examples of liquid crystals are -- a great many have been discovered. In particular, I do not remember what substances it is that form liquid crystals of the nematic type, but I think that a lot of these are known. If you wanted to check up, you could look in the book by O. Lehmann, Flüssige Kristalle, published about 1920. I thought that we had the book in our chemistry library, but it seems not to be here. You no doubt have it in Cambridge.

  I think that it might well be that nematic liquid crystals formed by simple organic compounds, such as p-azoxyanisole (I am relying on my memory here, and am probably wrong about the compound) contain rods with a helical structure. These rods might be formed by an interaction of a molecule with the next molecule, probably through the formation of hydrogen bonds, that represents a rotation and translation, and then by the repetition of this operation a helix would be made. I doubt that anyone has tried to study nematic liquid crystals by the technique used by Dr. Franklin. The preparation of some photographs of liquid crystals of this sort, and their analysis to obtain the structure of the helical rod, and even, through the interpretation of the intensity distribution along the layer lines, the arrangement of the atoms in each molecule, would be something new. I should think that it would be worth while to make preparations of a large number of organic compounds that form nematic liquid crystals, and to get x-ray photographs of them, and attempt to determine the number of molecules per turn in the helix, the pitch of the helix, and the identity distance along the rod. Then one or two of them might be completely analyzed. I think that in general the job of determining a structure of a molecule in this way would be simpler than that of determining the structure of a true crystal of the same substance. The reason for this is that the determination of the structure of a molecule by analysis of the electron diffraction pattern given by the gas is simpler than that of determining the structure of the crystal, because the orientations of the molecules and their relative positions in the crystal do not need to be determined in the investigation of the gas.

  I am sure that most of the liquid crystals that Lehmann describes have a range of stability of the liquid crystalline state that is above room temperature. That is, of course, an experimental difficulty.

  You probably could get the compounds from the chemistry department -- I think that a good number of them are rather ordinary ones, but might well be available. Others might be purchased.

  It may well be that you do not want to waste time checking up on this point. If so, let me know, and perhaps I shall ask somebody here to look into the matter.

  I have just rewritten Chapter 7 of College Chemistry. I had revised it somewhat last month -- it is a chapter on descriptive chemistry, and I had put the alkali metals, alkaline-earth metals, and several other groups of elements into the chapter. It seemed to me to be rather dull, however, and I decided to scrap the whole thing, and to start over again. The result is a chapter on the chemistry of carbon, including a good bit of elementary organic chemistry. I think that it is a much more interesting part of chemistry to have at this place in the course than the survey of descriptive chemistry for a number of elements.

  Mama and I are planning to be in Pasadena during most of the winter. At present we have only two trips scheduled, to Princeton next month, and to Harvard in late April. I expect also to make a short trip to Boston in December, to attend the meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of Massachusetts General Hospital.

  Dr. Corey and I are still feeling bad that there is no one here who knows how to work with crystalline proteins, and to get good x-ray photographs of them. Holmes made a nice x-ray photograph of carbonmonoxyhemoglobin many years ago -- I think, in fact, before Bernal and Crowfoot did their first work, but probably it was about simultaneously. He did not publish anything about it. He is, of course, too busy to tackle such a difficult job, requiring lots of time, now. Also, I think that Dr. Corey has had some experience, but he is busy with other things. Tang started off well, but after one year as a post-doctoral fellow he went back to China, with only one protein crystal investigated.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to William R. Bidner, American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science RE: Confirming upcoming speaking engagements on behalf of the Institute [Bidner's letter October 6, 1954] [Filed under W: Organizational Correspondence, Box #441.4]
• Letter from Sid Bernhard to LP RE: Request LP edit a paper on enzyme specificity and molecular structure. [Letter from Sid Bernhard to LP October 12, 1954, reply from LP to Bernhard October 20, 1954] [Filed B: Correspondence, 1954 Box #37.21].
• Memorandum from C.D. Anderson to L.A. DuBridge RE: Attaches the proposal for a research grant to the NSF on Investigation Requiring the Use of an Analytical Ultracentrifuge submitted by Beadle who has the approval of the Committee on Contracts. [Memorandum from DuBridge to Beadle November 1, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Johnny Oyakawa amount $91.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Harold P. Klug, University of Pittsburgh to LP RE: Inviting LP to speak at the Mellon Institute during his visit back East. [LP's reply October 20, 1954] [Filed under K: Individual Correspondence, Box #199.3]
• Letter from Helen L. Jeffrey, National Science Foundation to Robert B. Corey RE: The proposal “Investigations Requiring the Use of An analytical Ultracentrifuge” has been assigned to the Molecular Biology Program but it was received too late to be evaluated at the Fall Meeting so it will be presented at the Spring Meeting. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.2]
• Letter from Richard M. Noyes to LP RE: Requesting permission to use LP as a reference for his Guggenheim Foundation application. [LP's reply October 18, 1954] [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #279.2]
• Letter from William V. Consolazio, National Science Foundation to LP RE: Informs LP that his research proposal “Configurations of Polypeptide Chains in Proteins” has been approved by the NSF for $30,000 for three years. Outlines the way LP should submit research reports and says that want six reprints of each publication. [Letter from LP to Consolazio October 18, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]
• Note by LP RE: Contract for the other party [signature illegible] to agree to paying damage done to his property in connection with the removal of trees and other work. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 27R]

• LP writes cheque to: self amount $100.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Arthur E. Fox, Princeton University, to LP RE: Discusses travel accommodations and the nature of the audience. [Letter from LP to Fox October 7, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.19]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. Victor A. Lewinson RE: Publication information and instructions concerning "The Radial Distribution Function Calculated by the Monte-Carlo Method for Hard-Sphere Fluid" by Alder, Frankel and Lewinson. [Lewinson's letter October 7, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from John T. Edsall to LP RE: Reply to LP's letter of September 30, 1954 agreeing that the first sentence of the paper by Scheinberg and associates is misleading and that the nomenclature might be confusing as well. He also asks LP's opinion on allowing Jean Roche to write a review of abnormal hemoglobin for "Advances in Protein Chemistry." [LP's letter September 30, 1954; LP's reply October 20, 1954] [Filed under E: Individual Correspondence, Box #106.5]
• Letter from L.A. DuBridge to Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Director, National Science Foundation, cc: LP RE: Acknowledges receipt of his letter informing him of the grant of $30,000 by the NSF for support of the research “Configurations of Polypeptide Chains in Proteins,” to be conducted by LP. [Letter from Waterman to DuBridge October 8, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Charles H. Townes RE: Thanking him for copy of the manuscript on NO. [Townes' letter October 7, 1954] [Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #408.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. F.J. Allen RE: LP says that he usually rewrites the chapters using only what he remembers being told in letters, then goes back through and uses the individual comments from critics. He says this is why it appears that he has ignored some of Allen's suggestions. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Fred J. Allen RE: LP's revision of second edition of College Chemistry, asks Allen's opinion on the new Chapter 7, outlines future plans for revision. [LP's letter to Dr. Fred J. Allen of October 4, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3] [LP's letter to Dr. Fred J. Allen of October 19, 1954]
• Letter from LP to John Kendrew. [Kendrew's letter October 7, 1954]

  14 October 1954

  Dr. John Kendrew

  Cavendish Laboratory

  Cambridge

  England

  Dear Kendrew:

  I am pleased to learn that Dr. Joseph Kraut may come to the Cavendish next year, to work with you.

  He was here for three years, obtaining his Ph.D. During most of this time he worked on the determination of molecular weights of proteins by the light-scattering technique, and then for about a year on making x-ray photographs of feather rachis.

  He is an able and well trained physical chemist, with a good knowledge of physics and mathematics as well as of chemistry. He is a hard worker, and has good laboratory technique. I have seen him only as a graduate student, but I would expect him to get something significant done during his year with you.

  He knows how to take x-ray photographs, and something about how to interpret them. However, he is not one of our x-ray men - that is, he has not gone through the job of determining the structure of one or more crystals, and would need, I think, supervision in the interpretation of x-ray data, unless he has learned a good bit during the last year.

  I am sure that you would not be disappointed in him, if you allowed him to come to your laboratory.

  I am glad to learn that Peter is doing well with you, now. I had surmised from his letters that he was working harder, and feeling more satisfaction in his work.

  If he continues to work satisfactorily, I should be glad to have him remain for a fourth year of research with you. I judge that you think that, if he continues to work, he should be able to get his Ph.D. in 1956.

  I shall look forward to learning more about the results which you obtain with the finback whale hemoglobin, especially the form with chains parallel to a crystal axis. Also, I hope that the work with

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  telluric acid is successful. I am pretty doubtful about there being any other inorganic substance that would react with hemoglobin in such a way as to attach a heavy atom almost directly to the iron atom.

  I have been spending a large amount of my time during the past three months on the preparation of a new edition of my elementary textbook, but I have also been working steadily on the problem of the structure of collagen, and hope that the solution will be obtained before long. Corey and Marsh and I are publishing a long paper on the structure of silk fibroin. Our structure is, of course, a pleated-sheet structure, with the side chains all on one side of the sheet, and interleaving, as I mentioned briefly in my talk at the Solvay Congress. It differs somewhat, however, from the structure described by Warwicker.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• AHP writes cheque to: Pearl M. Jordan amount $60.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP Note to Self RE: "The Crystal and Molecular Structure of 1,4-Dithiadiene"; "Preparation and Properties of Manganese Carbonyl"; "The Structure of Sodium Octafluorotantalate"; "The United Atom-Separated Atom Treatment of the Hydrogen Molecule Ion"; "Microwave Spectrum of Formic Acid"; "1-2-2 mm. Wave Spectroscopy"; "The Crystal Structure of Cupric Formate Tetrahydrate"; The Crystal Structure of Cs₂I₈"; "Dissociation Energy of N₂"; "Microwave Spectrum and Structure of Benzonitrile"; "On the Heats of Sublimation and Evaporation of Germanium"; "Sublimation Studies of Silicon in the Mass Spectrometer"; "The Chemistry of Intermolecular Compounds"; "The Relation of Nuclear Quadrupole Couplings In the Chemical Bond"; "The Structure of Polythionates"; "Rotational Constants of SiH₃D"; "The Crystal Structure and Molecular Shape of 3:4-5:6-Dibenzophenanthrine"; "The Cyanogen Halides"; "Stark Effect in the Microwave Spectrum of KCl and NaCl"; "Hydrogen Bonding in Sodium Trifluoro Acetate-Trifluoro Acetic Acid Compounds" [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945-1992), Box #10.003, Folder 3.7]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Jane Connolly RE: Requested list of two Master of Science in Chemistry awarded in 1954, none were awarded in 1953. [Letter from Jane S. Connolly to Beatrice J. Wulf September 7, 1954, reply from Wulf to Connolly October 15, 1954] [Filed B correspondence 1954 Box #37.21].
• Letter from Frank Aydelotte to LP RE: looking forward to seeing LP and AHP in Princeton in November [Filed under A: Individual Correspondence, Box #6.21]
• Letter from J. S. Lukesh, General Electric Co. RE: Reply to LP's request for graphite crystals of August 30, 1954; apologizes for sending crystals so late, but had loaned them out and has only recently recovered them and has sent them to Dr. Hoerni under a separate cover. [LP's letter August 30, 1954; LP's reply October 25, 1954] [Filed under L: Individual Correspondence, Box #218.9]

• AHP writes cheque to: Colby Nurseries amount $16.54 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Colby Nurseries amount $38.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Coleman Chamber Music Association amount $7.20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Joseph W. Wood amount $10.29 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: M. Segal amount $12.10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: McBride Animal Hospital amount $8.25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Benjamin Shipman to LP RE: Thanking LP for his hospitality during his visit [LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Arthur McKinney amount $155.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: FDR Club of Edward M. Ford Treasurer amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Art Museum amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Peter J. Pauling amount $100.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Roskam for Congress Committee amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Program: Installation Service of Reverend Amos Murphy as Minister of Education, The First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, October 17, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.57]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pomona College Campus Club amount $1.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Reed College amount $50.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Service League amount $2.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Worthington Foods, Inc. amount $14.64 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP Notes to Self RE: "The Structure of Hydrazoic Acid"; "The Crystal Structure of Samarium"; "The Crystal Structure of Formamide" [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945-1992), Box #10.003, Folder 3.7]
• Letter from James H. Stack, A.C.S. News Service to LP RE: Asks LP for an advance copy of his address on “The Structure of Normal and Abnormal Molecules of Hemoglobin” which LP will present at the New York Section meeting on November 5th. [Letter from Executive Secretary to Stack October 25, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder 6.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. William V. Consolazio, National Science Foundation RE: Pleased to learn that his proposal for research on “Configurations of Polypeptide Chains in Proteins” has been approved. [Letter from Consolazio to LP October 13, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]
• Letter from LP to Esther Everett Lape, The American Foundation Studies RE: Accepting the invitation to join the Committee of Consultants. [Lape's letter October 7, 1954] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Richard M. Noyes RE: LP agrees to be a reference for Noyes on his Guggenheim application. [Letter from Noyes October 13, 1954] [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #287.21]
• Letter from LP to S. J. Singer, Yale RE: Thanking him for the slides, which LP may want to use in his lectures at Princeton [Letter from Singer October 8, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP top Prof. David Nachmansoh, Columbia University RE: LP thanks him for sending a copy of the book Ion Transport Across Membranes. [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #287.21]
• Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bittker to LP RE: Inviting the Paulings to stay at their lodge as guests of the Weizmann Institute during LP's upcoming speaking arrangement there [Letter from LP October 25, 1954] [Filed under W: Organizational Correspondence, Box #441.4].
• Letter from R. C. Gibbs, Chairman of the Advisory Committee to OOR, National Research Council to LP RE: Requests LP evaluate research proposal submitted by Jerry Donohue and Norman Kharasch, USC; memorandum enclosed. [LP's reply October 25, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Research Council, 1950-1992), Box #14.028, Folder 28.1]
• Letter from Ralph Spitzer, University of Manitoba to LP RE: Thanks LP for thinking of him in connection with the Weizmann Institute, but has decided to remain at the U. of Manitoba and obtain his medical degree to further his research opportunities; personal update. [LP's letter October 7, 1954; LP's reply October 25, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.034, Folder 34.4]
• Mailed deposit receipt from LP's account with Southern Commercial and Savings Bank: amount $597.50 [LP Biographical: Box 4.060, Folder 60.2]

• 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]

• AHP writes cheque to: Allan Knight Chalmers amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Happy's Liquor Stores amount $58.04 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: The New Yorker amount $30.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Carl T. Chase, Secretary, Franklin Institute Branch, R. E. S. A., to LP RE: Looks forward to hearing his talk on the structure of Proteins. Discusses even plans and needs. [Letter from LP to Chase October 27, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.18]
• Letter from Charles Coryell to Dr. Henry Allen Moe, Secretary General of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Hospital RE: Enclosed letter to Chew of October 17, 1954 to explain the LP passport case to Moe. [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence Box #68.2]
• Letter from Charles Coryell to LP RE: Concerning enclosed correspondence involving the Committee on Passports of the Federation of American Scientists; [LP's reply October 26, 1954] Enclosed correspondence:
• Letter from Charles Coryell to Prof. Geoffrey Chew RE: October 17, 1954 Federation of American Scientists to the Council on the Kamen passport case; 5^th paragraph concerns LP's passport case in 1953.
• Letter from Dr. G. M. Schwab, Germany to LP RE: Inviting LP to prepare a discussion of Professor Fajans' quanticule theory. Reprint enclosed. [LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. I. Herbert Scheinberg. [Scheinberg's letter October 11, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]

  20 October 1954

  Dr. I. Herbert Scheinberg

  New York State Psychiatric Institute

  722 West 168th Street

  New York, New York

  Thank you for your letter of 11 October, about the abnormal hemoglobins.

  I am very pleased to learn that the interpretation that I had placed on the first sentences of your paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is not justified. I was troubled to think that I might have been mistaken in believing that we had originated the idea of abnormal hemoglobins.

  The problem of the structural nature of the abnormality continues to remain a most interesting and puzzling one. Your results seem to be in contradiction with those of Schroeder and his collaborators. Dr. Schroeder is a very careful man, and I have had much confidence in him. I suppose that more work ought to be done on the amino-acid composition of these hemoglobins.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Harold P. Klug, University of Pittsburgh RE: Reply to Klug's letter of October 13, 1953 declining the invitation to speak at the Mellon Institute during his upcoming trip back East. [Klug's letter October 13, 1954] [Filed under K: Individual Correspondence, Box #199.3]
• Letter from LP to Harry L. Fisher, University of Southern California RE: Thanks Fisher for his letter and informs him that he has already sent Dr. Emery the name of the departmental representative, Gunnar Bergman. [Letter from Fisher to LP October 12, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder 6.4]
• Letter from LP to Margaret Cooper, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP thanks Cooper for sending him the set of comment slips on General Chemistry. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from LP to Sid Bernhard RE: Errors that can be fixed in Bernhard's paper on enzyme specificity and molecular structure. [Letter from Sid Bernhard to LP October 12, 1954, reply from LP to Bernhard October 20, 1954] [Filed B: Correspondence, 1954 Box #37.21].

• Memorandum from LP to F. W. Maxstadt RE: Discusses Registrar's Report. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.028, Folder #28.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: Ostis Landscape Nursery amount $34.64 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: P. T. Lomas amount $17.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from A.H. Walter to Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research RE: Encloses seven copies of a proposal, dated October 19, 1954, for an extension of Contract No. N6onr-24432 for the period from 6-1-56 through 5-31-57 at a cost of $14,400. [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 G.B. Kistiakowsky, National Academy of Sciences to Members of the Section of Chemistry RE: Includes a table with the standing of the candidates after the second written caucus of March 1954. Discusses the candidates (encloses their biographical data) and asks that the enclosed ballot be returned within two weeks. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Sven hman, U. S. Correspondent of "Dagens Nyheter" to LP RE: Requesting an interview with LP for the Swedish paper, posing some questions concerning LP's ideas about the place of scientific knowledge in human culture; also requesting photos for publication. [LP's response October 26, 1954] [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.9].

• AHP writes cheque to: Good Foods amount $13.30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pearl M. Jordan amount $40.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Walter Fritts amount $26.88 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Anna Panek amount $22.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to AHP RE: Thanks AHP for the money to buy clothes. Updates her on personal news of his friends. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]
• Letter from Philip Fayen to LP RE: Based on LP's "The Structure of Protein Molecules," (Scientific American 7/54), Fayen questions whether LP's studies have found a connection between keratin and baldness. [LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]

• AHP writes cheque to: Hertel's amount $1.56 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Marie Antoinette Co. amount $16.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from C. R. Mueller (Forwarded with note to LP from Dr. Fred J. Allen) RE: Comments on a paper of LP's [Letter of response from LP October 25, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3]
• Letter from Executive Secretary, Gates and Crellin Laboratories to James H. Stack, A.C.S. News Service RE: LP has asked them to send the enclosed abstract of the talk he will give at the meeting of the New York Section of the ACS on November 5th. [Letter from Stack to LP October 18, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder 6.4]
• Letter from John T. Edsall to LP RE: requests any ideas LP has on the structure of imidazoles to aid Yasushiko Nozaki's study of the properties of 4-methylimidazole. Enclosed: sketches and letter from Nozaki expressing the same. [LP's reply November 2, 1954] [Filed under E: Individual Correspondence, Box #106.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. S. Lukesh, General Electric Co. RE: Thanking him for the specimens sent to Dr. Hoerni. [Lukesh's letter October 15, 1954] [Filed under L: Individual Correspondence, Box #218.9]
• Letter from LP to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bittker RE: Informing them of his arrival and departure times in Tucson. [Letter from the Bittker October 18, 1954] [Filed under W: Organizational Correspondence, Box #441.4]
• Letter from LP to R. C. Gibbs, Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the OOR, National Research Council RE: LP supports the research proposal of Donohue and Kharasch and advices the NRC to fund it for a longer period of time than one year. [Gibbs' letter to LP October 18, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Research Council, 1950-1992), Box #14.028, Folder 28.1]
• Letter from LP to Ralph Spitzer, University of Manitoba. [Spitzer's letter October 18, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.034, Folder 34.4]

  25 October 1954

  Dr. Ralph Spitzer

  The University of Manitoba

  Medical Building

  Winnipeg, Canada

  Dear Ralph:

  I am pleased that you are going ahead for a medical degree, and are planning definitely on medical research. I think that that is fine. I am also glad to learn that Mark Nickerson has been appointed professor of pharmacology. I am sure that you will find it worth while to talk with him.

  I am hoping to come to Winnipeg sometime. For several years I have been planning a trip through western Canada - Ava Helen and I were in fact at Banff and Lake Louise this summer, on our way home from Toronto, but the time did not seem good for visiting universities.

  I have an arrangement with the Chemical Institute of Canada to the effect that when I can fit a trip through western Canada into my schedule I shall let them know.

  I am sorry to hear about the slipped disc. Please give Terry my sympathy.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Ray Bowen RE: The wrong structures in Bowen's original letter are crossed out. Typically hydrogen on carbons are not involved in hydrogen bonding, cyanide and chloroform are the exceptions to this case. [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 Louis C. Green, Haverford College to LP RE: inviting LP to visit and speak at Haverford College during his trip to the East coast; encloses information about Philips Visitors Program at college. [LP's reply October 31, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from Myer M. Fishman, The City College (NY) to LP RE: Fishman invites LP to speak at the undergraduate chemical society meeting November 4, 1954. [LP's reply October 28, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
• Memorandum from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP to LP RE: Informs LP that Alice Walter wants to set up the budget for his new NSF contract. Asks LP where he wants the cuts (totaled to $3613.25) to be made and when he wants the contract to start. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.4]
• Statement from Althea Miller for 82 hours of transcription and typing, amount: $123.00 [LP Biographical: Box 4.060, Folder 60.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Grace Crane Bagley amount $15.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Happy's Liquor Store amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from I. Herbert Scheinberg to LP RE: Inviting LP to lunch in NY November 5, 1954 [LP's Reply October 28, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Charles Coryell. [Reply to Coryell's letter of October 20, 1954] [Coryell's reply November 1, 1954] [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence Box #68.2]

  26 October 1954

  Prof. Charles D. Coryell

  Room 6-427, Department of Chemistry

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Cambridge 39, Mass.

  Dear Charles:

  I thank you for your letter. It was a shock to me and to my wife that we were not able to make our trip to India and other countries last December.

  I may say that in your letter of 17 October to Prof. Geoffrey Chew there is a misstatement - at any rate a suggestion that is not quite right. You say that you heard in Paris that on my arrival in Paris I went immediately to visit Mme. Joliot-Curie to commiserate with her about the denial of her of membership in the American Chemical Society in July 1953. The fact is that when I arrived in Paris, with eight hours between planes, I went to the Sorbonne, to visit the department of physical chemistry - I hoped to see Professor Bouer. On my arrival there one of the men told me that Mme. Joliot-Curie had been denied membership in the American Chemical Society. I expressed skepticism - I could not believe that this had happened. Accordingly I went to her laboratory, and asked her. She showed me the letter that had been received. I said that I was sure a mistake had been made, and that I would write to the present president, (at that time), Farrington Daniels. I did so.

  Your story about the refusal of a passport to me is essentially correct.

  As to the Public Health Service, so far as I am aware research grants have not been withheld from our Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; in fact, the grants for which I applied were then applied for by other members of our Division, and immediately approved. I may say that I have just been notified

  Prof. Coryell Page 2 26/10/54

  that a grant to me by the National Science Foundation has been approved.

  I wrote to Victor Weisskopf about ay passport situation a few months ago.

  I am going east next week, to give some lectures at Princeton. I am planning to be in Boston early in December, but only for two days when the Advisory Committee for Massachusetts General Hospital meets, and I am afraid that I shall not have time to come to the Institute to see you.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

  P.S. We are also making a visit for two days at Cornell, next week. LP

• Letter from LP to Prof. R. A. McConnell RE: Thanking him for his letter of October 22, 1954; stating he does not have time to reread Modern Experiments in Telepathy until he returns from his trip East. [LP's previous letter October 6, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from LP to Rosalind Franklin RE: Reply to letter of October 19, 1954. [Filed under F: Individual Correspondence, Box #121.1]
• Letter from LP to Sven hman RE: reply to letter of October 22, 1954, enclosing photos of LP; arranging to meet hman in New York on November 1, 1954; detailing LP's relations to Sweden. [LP Awards, Box 1954h2.9]
• Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to LP and AHP RE: LP Jr. was alleged to be a Communist and the hospital administrator called the FBI only to find there were no files on him. Thanks LP for taking care of his Studebaker for the year and encloses a check for garage fees. LP Jr. will be the best man in two upcoming weddings, one of which Crellin plans to attend. LP Jr. does not know if he will remain in Honolulu in the future. [LP's letter October 8, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 5.037, Folder 37.7]
• Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bittker to LP RE: They will advise Bidner of the Paulings exact arrival time in Arizona so Bidner can arrange for someone to meet them [LP's letter October 26, 1954] [Filed under W: Organizational Correspondence, Box #441.4]
• Letter from Prof. W. T. Astbury to LP RE: Inviting LP to a symposium in Milan organized by the Isituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere on biological macromolecules for the following July. [LP's letter of response November 2, 1954] [Filed under A: Individual correspondence, Box #6.18]
• Report of the Scientific Advisory Council of the L. A. Chapter of the National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc. (from Richard Lippman) RE: Detailing current scientific endeavors funded by the Foundation including Lippman's recent research grant, which LP believes should be supplemented by a grant from the L. A. Chapter. [Letter concerning meeting October 9, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc., 1954-1958), Box #14.026, Folder 26.1]

• AHP writes cheque to: Herman Koller amount $4.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Johnny Oyakawa amount $78.82 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Cornel Lengyel to LP RE: Thanks LP for comment on his play The Atom Clock (August 10, 1954) and would like to use LP as a subject for the biography film series he is preparing with Erven Jourdan [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Dr Carl T. Chase, Franklin Institute Branch, R. E. S. A., RE: Discusses his travel plans. [Letter from Chase to LP October 20, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.18]
• Letter from LP to James R. Page RE: Regrets Page will retire as Chairman of the Trustees of Caltech; LP will not be able to attend his retirement dinner as he will be in the East, but thanks Page for his service while at Caltech. Dinner invitation enclosed. [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to Lucille Jenkins. [LP Biographical: Box 5.053, Folder 53.8]

  27 October 1954

  Mrs. Lucille Jenkins

  Estacada

  Oregon

  Dear Lucille:

  I have mislaid the letter that you sent me some time ago, and have just remembered that I should be writing to you.

  First, let me say that we were sorry not to see you last June. I was scheduled to be in Toronto shortly after the time of the Commencement address at Reed, and I had a very short stay there. I had thought that you would probably come to the Commencement ceremony. We tried to telephone you a couple of times, and got no answer. We were too rushed to come out to Estacada.

  Linda is in England now, with Peter. She is studying. Peter seems to be getting along well in his graduate work.

  I have been terribly busy this summer, preparing a second edition of my book COLLEGE CHEMISTRY. I think that you have a copy of the first edition - it came out in 1950, and is the last book that I have written. I prepared a second edition of GENERAL CHEMISTRY a couple of years ago. The job of rewriting COLLEGE CHEMISTRY has turned out to be a big one, and I have been having trouble getting everything done this summer and fall.

  We are leaving Pasadena, on a three-weeks' trip east, next Monday. I am to give a series of lectures in Princeton University, called the Vanuxem Lectures. This means that I shall have the job of preparing the manuscript of a book, corresponding to the lectures, to be published by Princeton University Press. I have enough to do, but I felt that it was wise to accept this invitation. I am going to give the Prather Lectures at Harvard next spring. No book required.

  Crellin is in Reed now - have you seen him yet? He does not have a car.

  I enclose my check for $50, which you may use to keep the cemetery lot cleaned up. Let me know when you have used this up.

  Love from

  P.S.

  Love to the whole family.

  LP

• Letter from Prof. Dr. W. Lautsch to LP RE: Inviting LP to the Sie an dem Internationalen Chemie-Kongre Ende Juli 1955. [Filed under L: Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Memorandum from LP to Dean Bacher, C. I. T., RE: Recommends that the travel expenses of Dr. Hughes be paid from the travel fund of the Institute. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box #1.030, Folder #30.8]

• Journal Article: “Preliminary Observations on Difference in Carbohydrate Binding between Abnormal Serum and Urine Proteins of Multiple Myeloma,” by Elliot F. Osserman and Dolores P. Lawlor, Science, Vol. 120, October 29. 1954. LP handwritten note on top “Bence-Jones protein.” [Filed under LP Science: (Non-Pauling Reprints re: The Structure and Properties of Proteins, 1920s-1970s). Box #6.006, Folder 6.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. I. Herbert Scheinberg, RE Declining invitation to have lunch on November 5, 1954 in New York with Scheinberg. [Letter from Scheinberg October 26, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. O. Warwicker, England RE: Enclosed manuscript which LP is submitting for publication as a Short Communication in Acta Crystallographica [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from LP to Prof. I. Fankuchen RE: Enclosed manuscript submitted for publication in Short Communication in Acta Crystallographica. [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box # 7]
• Letter from Myer M. Fishman to LP RE: LP declines invitation to speak before undergraduate chemical society of the City College. [Fishman's letter October 25, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
• Letter to LP from Esther Everett Lape, Member-in-Charge, The American Foundation Studies RE: welcoming LP to the Committee and sending him the requested chapters of the current study on medical research institutions. [LP's reply December 5, 1954] [Filed A: Organizational Correspondence, Box #10.1]
• Memo from LP to W. Hertenstein. [First memo concerning same September 26, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]

  Mr. Hertenstein Linus Pauling 28 October 1954

  Parking space

  A few weeks ago I wrote you, asking if the hump at the entrance to the parking lot near Hollistron Street, in which I have been assigned a space, could be removed. It is evident from the scars on the hump that I am not the only person who has trouble getting over it.

  Unless you plan to do this job, I ask that I be assigned a parking place elsewhere, no less convenient than in the Hol- liston lot. For example, would it be possible to give me a stall in the Earhart yard, across the street from the Crellin Laboratory?

  Linus Pauling:W

• AHP writes cheque to: Anna Panek amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Happy's Liquor Store amount $15.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Ostis' Landscape Nursery amount $15.45 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Theresa Pittman amount $20.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Deposit slip for LP's account at Southern Commercial and Savings Bank: Total amount deposited $983.57 [LP Biographical: Box 4.023, Folder 23.3]
• Interoffice memo from Walter Schroeder to LP RE: Information about the infrared dichroism of feather rachis keratin [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #361.1]
• LP writes cheque to: Alethea Miller amount $123.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Bennett Travel Agency amount $110.65 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Lucille Jenkins amount $50.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: self amount $200.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Howard Lucas to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.67]
• Letter from John Waugh to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.70]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. A. Goldberg, Executive Secretary of the L. A. Chapter of the National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc. RE: LP recommends the L.A. Chapter of the NNF grant Dr. Richard Lippman $2000 to supplement another research grant for his work on the fractionation and characterization of kidney proteins. [Filed under LP Science: (National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc., 1954-1958), Box #14.026, Folder 26.1]
• Letter from S. D. Cornell, National Academy of Sciences to Members of the Editorial Board, LP RE: Enclosed report, "Notes on the Cost of the Proceedings," by Charles I. Campbell. The Council will discuss the finances of the Proceedings at the November 7, 1954 meeting. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Walter J. Lehmann to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.69]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Dr. Pauling Nobel Prize Winner?", Pasadena (California) Star-News, October 29, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.60]
• Photo: Linus Pauling using a model to illustrate molecular structure a few days prior to being awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. "Linus Pauling in 1954 with model demonstrating molecular structure. A few days after this picture was taken, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry." [Courtesy of Oregon Historical Society] "This photograph is issued for reference use only. It is not to be copied for resale or digitally transferred. Permission for use in a publication, film or video production, or for any commercial use, must be requested in writing from the Photographs Archivist. Photographs Department / Oregon Historical Society / 1200 SW Park Avenue / Portland, Oregon 97205-2441 / Negative Number Or Hi 81309 / Dr. Linus Pauling Oct. 29, 1954" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. October 29, 1954. [Filed under LP Photographs: 1954i.64]

• AHP writes cheque to: Happy's Liquor Store amount $29.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Manor Market amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Safeway Stores amount $62.64 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Bulletin Article: "Vanuxem Lectures", Princeton University (New Jersey) Weekly Bulletin, October 30, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.57]
• Copy of the Princeton University Weekly Bulletin, with a notice that LP will give the Vanuxem Lectures 11-15 through November 18, 1954. [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• LP writes cheque to: American Institute of Physics amount $42.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Edward Crellin Pauling amount $150.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Linda H. Pauling amount $260.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Peter J. Pauling amount $260.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Robert B. Corey amount $39.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from George Hedman to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.79]
• Letter from Harry G. Day, Indiana University to LP RE: Thanks for reference of Dr. Hedberg; Day will reconsider him for appoint in Theoretical Chemistry but requests further recommendation, especially regarding Hedberg's effectiveness working with specific researchers at the University. [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from LP to Jean Sullivan. [Filed under I: Correspondence 1954, Box #185.15]

  30 October 1954

  Miss Jean Sullivan

  International House

  University of California

  Berkeley 4, California

  Dear Miss Sullivan:

  Richard LaForce has asked me to write a letter of recommendation for him, in connection with his application for admission to International House.

  I have known Mr. LaForce for about three years - he was a student in the class in freshman chemistry that I teach. I may say that I was impressed by his ability and promise perhaps more than by any other man in the class of 180. He has, I think, an extraordinary flair for scientific work.

  He is also a very interesting young man, so far as his personality goes. It is true that he has gone through a difficult and troublesome time, in his connection with the law courts, but I feel nevertheless that I can recommend him strongly to you.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to William R. Bidner, American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science RE: LP's expenses in connection with the Tucson dinner ($20). [Filed under W: Organizational Correspondence, Box #441.4]
• Letter from Pauline Pauling to LP RE: congratulations for Nobel Prize [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.72]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Caltech Chemist in Spotlight", Mirror, October 30, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.60]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Caltech prof mentioned for Nobel prize", Los Angeles Daily News, October 30, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.60]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Dr. Pauling Selected", Oregon Journal [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.106]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Nobel Prize Slated for Caltech Man", Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.60]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Pauling to Lecture at Princeton", New York Times, 1954.

• AHP writes cheque to: Beatrice Wright amount $12.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Estelle Forward amount $12.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Simpson's amount $19.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Contract Status Report: Contract N6onr-24423, Chemistry 25 Acct. 23607, Director of Research: Drs. LP and Verner Schomaker. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.6]
• Letter from LP to Alden H. Emery, American Chemical Society RE: LP was glad to read Emery’s letter of October 1, 1954 and has asked Gunnar Bergman to represent the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering on the special project. [Letter from Emery to LP October 1, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder 6.4]
• Letter from LP to Crellin Pauling. [LP Biographical: Box 5.048, Folder 48.5]

  31 October 1954

  Dear Crellin:

  I enclose your check for $150. This is $50 for the first of November payment to you plus $100 for you to hold in case of emergency.

  I am looking forward to talk with you by telephone tonight again.

  Let me say that in case that we all decide to go to Sweden, I think that the thing for you to have is a round-trip ticket by Swedish Airlines, plus [unreadable] over certain regions, from Portland to Los Angeles to Stockholm, and back to New York and Portland. I think that you can get this ticket for the Portland-Stockholm round-trip rate. Mr. Hedman, representing Scandinavian Airlines in Los Angeles, says that he will arrange to hold three seats on the Polar Flight on 6 December. This would mean your being down here on say 5 December. We shall buy the ticket for you, if it comes to that.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences RE: LP has been unable to arrange a meeting of the Editorial Advisory Committee and would like to maybe arrange one at the time of the Columbia meeting, but does not know if he will even be able to attend it. He would like Bronk to proceed with the meeting if he thinks it necessary. LP also expresses regret that Bronk's schooner was wrecked in the hurricane. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to Lord Victor Rothschild RE: Thanking him for the comments on LP's manuscript, "The Duplication of Molecules." [Note from Rothschild November 15, 1954] [Filed under R: Individual Correspondence, Box #336.6]
• Letter from LP to Louis C. Green, Haverford College RE: Declines invitation to visit Haverford College while back East due to full schedule of engagements. [Haverford's letter October 25, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling RE: LP encloses check with monthly allowances and $10 gift from Zechmeisters; also encloses letter to Linda. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  31 October 1954

  Dear Peter:

  I enclose a check for you for $260. This is your stipend for 1 December and 1 January, plus $10. The $10 is a gift to you from Lassle and Elizabeth (Zachmeister?), who have asked that you buy books for yourself with it, for Christmas. I trust that you will write to them, thanking them, and perhaps saying what books you have got.

  I also enclose a letter to Linda. Mama and I are hoping that we shall see you soon.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to W. H. Freeman RE: Requests his stock certificates in W. H. Freeman and Company be remade [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Letter of reference for Glasel from LP [Filed under G Correspondence 1954, Box #140.18]
• Pay check stub from C. I. T., net pay: $983.57 [LP Biographical: Box 4.068, Folder 68.2]