Activity Listings
- Check from LP to Reed College for $625.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Counter Receipt from Southern Commercial and Savings Bank for LP for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Letter from Arthur C. Bond, Assistant Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry, to LP RE: Sends a manuscript by Libowitz and Gibb entitled "The Ionic Character of Transition Metal Elements" for review. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Organizational Correspondence. (Jo - Jo)), #191.11]
- Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Dr. W.C. Mumler, RE: The talk which LP will deliver before the Los Angeles County Medical Society on October 26 will be titled "The Abnormal Hemoglobins in Relation to Hemolytic Anemia." Confirms the date and place for the meeting. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.23]
- Letter from H. S. Rogers, President, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, to LP RE: Satisfied that they will be conferring the degree, Doctor of Science, during his visit. [Letter from LP to Rogers September 21, 1955] [Filed under LP Awards: 1955h.6]
- Letter from H. Segall to LP RE: Lists several model still required for measurement. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 28R]
- Letter from Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., Princeton University Press, to LP RE: Wonders what progress has been made toward the preparation of LP's Vanuxem Lectures on "The Structure and Biological Properties of Molecules" for publication. Sent two copies of a publication contract to LP in December 1954. If LP is satisfied with the contract, requests that he sign both copies and send one back to Bailey. Looks forward to publishing LP's essay in the next volume for the Growth Society under the title "Aspects of Synthesis and Order in Growth." The page proof is going back to the printer now. [Letter from LP to Bailey September 21, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.19]
- Letter from LP to David Ginsburg, Israel Institute of Technology RE: Thanks Ginsburg for the sample of parabenzoic acid isocyanide and will check on its combination with hemoglobin immediately. [Letter from Ginsburg September 5, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, University Museum, Oxford, England, RE: Received the August 20th issue of Nature; congratulates Hodgkin on her work on B-12. Hard to believe, but very satisfying, that x-ray crystallography can be used so effectively on such a complex molecule. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Individual Correspondence. (Hicks - Hodgkin)), #159.12]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Louis C. Gibbons, The Ohio Oil Co RE: LP looks forward to Gibbons and Dr. Poettman's visit. [Letter from Gibbons to LP September 9, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. S. Horwood Tucker, Chemistry Dept., The University, Glasgow, Scotland, RE: Gives Tucker permission to reproduce two figures from LP's The Nature of the Chemical Bond in the book on reaction mechanism that Tucker is writing. Sure that Cornell University will give their permission as well. [Letter from Tucker to LP September 7, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1936-1955), #410.20]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Thomas H. Southard, Numerical Analysis Research, University of California, Los Angeles, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept Southard's invitation to speak before the Southern California Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in October. LP is already too busy during that month. Suggests that Southard get in touch with LP in a few months to see if he is available. [Letters from Southard to LP September 12, 1955, September 29, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1953-1956), #379.3]
- Letter from LP to Esther Everett Lape, The American Foundation Studies, RE: Cannot accept invitation to speak at the dinner promoting the concept of the publication. Will be in Detroit at that time, speaking at the symposium on enzymes, and then must hurry back to Pasadena to host the fall meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Many of the people Lape planned to ask might be in Pasadena at this time as well. Suggests inviting Dr. Alfred Mirsky and Dr. Theodore Shedlovsky. Paul Weiss, as Lape suggested, would be an excellent choice. [Letters from Lape to LP September 7, 1955, September 15, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Organizational Correspondence. (Am - Am)), #10.1]
- Letter from LP to George A. Jervis RE: Thanks for the reprint and his letter and sends some information about the investigation. [Letter from Jervis to LP September 6, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.6]
- Letter from LP to Henry Fisk Carlton, W.H. Freeman and Company, Publishers, RE: The reference on page 97 should be Figure 5-5. Provides other necessary corrections. [Letter from Carlton to LP September 12, 1955] [Filed under LP Books: (College Chemistry: An Introductory Textbook of General Chemistry, Second Edition), #1955b.2]
- Letter from LP to Marvin Armstrong, College of Medicine, University of Utah, RE: Thanks for the reprint, discusses their current stage of research and states they may take advantage of his offer in the future. [Letter from Armstrong to LP September 6, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.13]
- Letter from LP to Professor Melvin Calvin, Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, RE: Sorry to learn that Calvin is unable to attend the Molecular Structure and Biological Specificity Symposium. [Letter from Calvin September 7, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.24]
- Letter from LP to Rev. J.B. Bennett, St. John's High School, New Zealand, RE: Pleased to have Bennett's letter. Pleased to have seen Bennett's brother when he visited Caltech. Glad to learn that Bennett has been able to put LP's General Chemistry to good use. [Letter from Bennett to LP September 6, 1955, Letter from LP to Freeman September 14, 1955] [Filed under LP Books: (General Chemistry: An Introduction to Descriptive Chemistry and Modern Chemical Theory, Second Edition), #1953b.5]
- Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Company, Publishers, RE: Thought Freeman might like to read the enclosed letter from J.B. Bennett. [Letter from LP to Bennett September 14, 1955] [Filed under LP Books: (General Chemistry: An Introduction to Descriptive Chemistry and Modern Chemical Theory, Second Edition), #1953b.5]
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