February 1956 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

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February

American Association of Scientific Workers Newsletter. [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am), Box #4.009, Folder #9.1]
Article: "This Month," [re: Pauling passport troubles] Frontier, February 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.4]
Article: "This Month," [re: Pauling passport troubles] Frontier, February 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.5]
Magazine Photo with Caption: "The Molecular Quantum Mechanics Conference," Southwest Retort, February 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: B0x #6.007, Folder #7.1]
Note from Elis Sundstrom to LP RE: Shares his ideas about the mechanism of action of catalysts. Requests advice and assistance in better understanding chemical processes and general chemistry. [Letter from LP to Sundstrom February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Notice of Research Project: "The Structure and Properties of Proteins and Synthetic Polypeptides," submitted by LP to the Bio-Sciences Information Exchange. [Filed under LP Science: Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Memoranda, Notes and Assorted Materials re: "The Structure and Properties of Proteins and Synthetic Polypeptides," Contract Nonr 220(05) (Chemistry 32), 1951-1963: Box #14.032, Folder #32.2]
On the valence and atomic size of silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth in alloys. Acta Crystallogr. 9 (February 1956): 127-130. [Linus Pauling and Peter Pauling] [Filed under LP Publications: 1956p.7]
Reprint: "Demographic Consideration of the Cancer Problem," Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Nuclear Fallout; Radiation Problems, 1950, 1953-1956: Box #7.001, Folder #1.26]
The combining power of myoglobin for alkyl isocyanides and the structure of the myoglobin molecule. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 42 (February 1956): 51-54. [Allen Lein and Linus Pauling] [Filed under LP Publications: 1956p.4]

February 1

Letter from Arthur F. G'Sell, Education Mailings Clearing House, to Syd Cassyd. RE: Has received his letter. Informs him of the expenses. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1960: Box #1960s2, Folder #1960s2.8]
Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to LP RE: Asks LP for a reference for Dr. Earl T. McBee for a Guggenheim Fellowship. Moe will be sending LP the Chemistry and Biochemistry digests soon. [Letter from LP to Moe February 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from LP to A. F. Kudlacik, W. H. Freeman & Co., RE: Informs that he has submitted his 1955 income tax return. Mentions discrepancies in reported rent and royalty sums. Inquires about a dividend payment. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W.H. Freeman and Company, 1956), #439.14]
Letter from LP to Charles D. Coryell, Federation of American Scientists, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept nomination as a Council delegate-at-large of the FAS. [Letter from Coryell to LP January 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Coryell, Charles D.), #68.2]
Letter from LP to Charles E. Weir, National Bureau of Standards. [Letters from Weir to LP January 23, 1956, February 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]

1 February

1956

Dr. Charles E. Weir

Leather Section

National Bureau of Standards

Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Dr. Weir:

I have read the manuscript sent with your letter of 23 January with interest, and I have several comments to make on it.

On the first page you mention my discussion of effect of radius ratio on properties of alkali halides, and say that no specific details were discussed. I think that the argument about the effect of radius ratio that I gave is complete so far as density is concerned. It is true that I discussed the interatomic distances in detail, in particular giving values of actual interionic distances for alkali halide crystals and values calculated for hypothetical substances with the same radius sums of the alkali halides but with the standard radius ratio. The calculation of the values of the density from the values of interatomic distance is such a simple and straightforward one that anybody could make it. The whole argument about the effect of radius ratio is, I think, fundamental to any discussion of density of these substances, and I feel that unless the effect of radius ratio is taken into consideration in a discussion the conclusions that are reached will be unreliable.

On page 4 you discuss the irregularity found on graphs of density, etc., at atomic number of about 20 for either anion or cation, and on page 5 you say that this behavior has not been described previously. The behavior is, in fact, well known, and has been discussed in greater or less detail many times during the past thirty years. For example, in my paper on the sizes of ions and the structure of ionic crystals published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1927 there is given, as Figure 3, a drawing showing the radii of ions as a function of the atomic number, and on this drawing lines are shown connecting the points for the halogenide ions and also the points for the alkali ions. These lines show the same peculiarity, a pronounced change in slope at atomic number about 20, as the lines in your figures 1 and 2.

The attempt that you make on page 6 and following pages to discuss the lattice spacing in terms of principal quantum numbers and quantum defects seems to me to be likely to be unproductive, because there is no reason to expect the radii of the ions in a sequence to be proportional to the square of an effective quantum number, and, moreover, surely the effect of radius ratio, which is neglected in your treatment, must be taken into consideration.

I cannot see any value in the discussion of a complex energy cycle beginning on page 10 of your manuscript. You are not able to evaluate the quantities E1 and E2 (I refer to the interaction of the nuclei with the surrounding electrons, not the nuclear energy itself, which cancels out, as you mention), and because of this inability you cannot reach any significant conclusions from consideration of this cycle. I cannot see any advantage to your discussion over the ordinary discussion of these ionic crystals, in terms of attraction of ions and repulsion of ions.

In general, I think that there is the possibility of significant progress in the theoretical discussion of essentially ionic crystals, such as the alkali halides; but I think that the methods described in your manuscript are less satisfactory than those that have been used in the past, and that you probably would make more rapid progress by building upon the earlier methods.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:w

Letter from LP to E. T. Harris, Bolton Technical College, RE: Gives Harris permission to quote values from The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Says that he considers the values in the public domain. [Note from Harris to LP January 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Letter from LP to W. H. Freeman RE: Informs that he received copies of Olson, Koch, and Pimentel and thinks it is first-rate. Mentions a possible error in the book. [Letter from Unknown Sender to Freeman March 30, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W.H. Freeman and Company, 1956), #439.14]
Letter from Robert B. Corey to Kozo Shinoda, University of Southern California, cc: LP, RE: Provides details regarding postdoctoral fellowships available at Caltech. Invites Kozo to visit Caltech. [Letter from Shinoda to LP January 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from W. Ballentine Henley, Rotary Club of Los Angeles, to LP RE: Invites LP to attend a luncheon at which Dr. L. A. DuBridge will speak. [Letter from LP to Henley February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Receipt from The Faraday Society to LP for $8.82. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Tax Documents, 1930-1956: Box #4.001, Folder #1.10]
Telegram from Robert B. Scott, Jr. to LP RE: Discusses LP's travel options for a trip to speak at the University of Alabama. [Letter from Scott, Jr. to LP January 27, 1956, Telegram from LP to Scott, Jr. February 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]

February 2

Check from AHP to Jerry Emery for $6.75. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954- February 19560: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Counter Receipt from Southern Commercial and Savings Bank for LP to $200.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954- February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Letter from Bernard Berelson, Director, Ford Foundation, to LP RE: Writes to inform LP of the present status of the mental health program. Says that there were many applications and the board will not make a decision until all proposals can be reviewed. [Letter from LP to Berelson February 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.2]
Letter from H. S. Mason, University of Oregon Medical School, to LP RE: Describes his current work with oxygen and hemoglobin. Asks for LP's suggestions. [Letter from LP to Mason February 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from LP to Archie Doran RE: Responds to Doran's January 3 letter and H. R. Banks' paper. Mentions specimens of cassiterite sent by Doran. [Letter from Doran to LP January 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1956), #98.21]
Letter from Mamoru Nakamura to LP RE: English translation by Makio Murayama. Congratulates LP on his Nobel Prize. Explains his interest in chemistry and his wish to attend a university. Requests to be introduced to young American students. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Letter from Professor Hans Neurath, School of Medicine, University of Washington, to LP RE: Invites LP to contribute a paper to the special issue of the Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, commemorating the 60th birthday of K. Linderstrom-Lang, preferably on a topic about which Linderstrom-Lang made an important contribution. [Letter from LP to Neurath February 11, 1956] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1956a.7]
Letter from Professor I. Fankuchen, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, to LP RE: Asks him to referee a manuscript that has just been submitted for publication in Acta Crystallographica. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1957a.4]
Letter from Thomas Lee, University of Chicago, to LP RE: Declines the appointment offered to him as associate professor at Caltech. [Letter from LP to Lee February 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence), #231.2]
Note from Mamaru Nakamura to LP RE: Written in Japanese. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Telegram from LP to Robert B. Scott, Jr., University of Alabama, RE: Says he cannot make a plane flight April 13. [Telegrams from Scott, Jr. to LP February 1, 1956, February 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Telegram from Rev. Clarence D. Herriott to LP RE: Invites LP speak at a meeting in San Francisco organized to discuss the California Labor School and recent allegations of Communist domination of the institution. [Letter from LP to Herriott February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Telegram from Robert B. Scott, Jr., University of Alabama, to LP RE: Discusses further transportation details of a trip for LP to speak at the University of Alabama in April. [Telegrams from LP to Scott Jr. February 2, 1956, February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]

February 3

Check from AHP to Herman Keller for $19.20. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Check from AHP to Pearl M. Jordan for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Check from LP to Bennett Travel Agency for $46.09. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.3]
Letter from A. H. T. Robb-Smith, Radcliffe Infirmary, to LP RE: Asks LP to reconsider his decision to decline the invitation to write a chapter in a book on "The Functions of Blood." [Letter from LP to Robb-Smith and MacFarlane January 23, 1956, Letter from LP to Robb-Smith February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
Letter from Andreas C. Maehly, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, to LP RE: Asks for LP's suggestions on an enclosed tentative itinerary for a proposed visit by Prof. and Mrs. Theorell. [Letter from LP to Maehly February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from B. Rajewsky, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, to LP RE: Discusses the possibility of Dr. Heinz Dannenberg's promotion to Wissenschaftlichen Mitglied of his Institute. Requests LP's opinion of Dannenberg's personal qualifications for the promotion. [Letter from LP to Rajewsky March 14, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
Letter from Dr. George C. Griffith, American College of Physicians, RE: Thanks LP for sending the abstract of his talk on "The Nature of Molecular Diseases" to be given before the American College of Physicians. Would like to discuss the entire program with LP to familiarize him with the events, as well as to invite LP and AHP to attend some of the social functions. [Letters from LP to Griffith January 26, 1956, February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.16]
Letter from Dr. Martin A. Watkins, Assistant Professor, Division of Language and Literature, Humboldt State College, to LP RE: Requests permission for the local radio station to broadcast LP's speech "The Development of American Science" and for CBS to broadcast all or part of LP's speech nationally. Also requests a copy of LP's speech to be used in advance publicity. The Eureka newspapers are eager to interview LP. Requests that LP call Watkins in Arcata to arrange a news conference. [Letters from Watkins to LP January 19, 1956, February 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.6]
Letter from E. Pekelis, Camarillo State Hospital, to LP RE: Requests a copy of LP's February 4 lecture in San Francisco. [Letter from LP to Pekelis February 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Letter from E. T. McBee, Purdue University Department of Chemistry, to LP RE: States he will be in Pasadena on February 14 and hopes to visit Caltech. [Letter from Wulf to McBee February 9, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from LP to C. R. Russell RE: Regrets that he will be unable to speak before the Peoria Section of the American Chemical Society in April. [Letter from Russell to LP January 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
Letter from LP to Clark Foreman, Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, RE: Informs him that he has been too busy to fill out the amicus briefs for Briehl and Kett. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1958), #129.2]
Letter from LP to Donald B. McIntyre, Pomona College Geology Department, RE: Mentions three papers regarding the method of the stochastic hypothesis in science and says he has published only one article on the subject. Invites McIntyre to visit Caltech. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from LP to Dr. Louis Finkelstein, Institute for Religious and Social Studies, RE: Thanks Finkelstein for his letter about Dr. Robert G. Colodny. Asserts that Prof. Hallett Smith will consider Colodny for appointment. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Finkelstein, Louis), #120.2]
Letter from LP to George Wald, Harvard University, RE: Gives a preliminary report on the x-ray investigation of five crystalline isomers. [Letter from Wald to LP February 14, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Wald, George), #431.1]
Letter from LP to Gerard Piel, Scientific American, RE: Thanks Piel for the set of Scientific American books he received. [Letters from Piel to LP January 13, 1956, February 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Scientific American, 1948-1995), #374.9]
Letter from LP to Louis Slichter, University of California Los Angeles, RE: Says he has posted Slichter's announcement regarding graduate fellowships at UCLA. [Letter from Slichter to LP January 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from LP to M. S. Iyengar, Fuel Research Institute, RE: Comments on Iyengar's paper on "Sorption of Water by Lignite." Suggests that Iyengar submit the paper for publication in a journal. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1956), #185.17]
Letter from LP to Phil Kerby, Frontier, RE: Declines Kerby's invitation for him to review two books about the Rosenberg trial. [Letter from Kerby to LP January 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Frontier), #122.11]
Letter from LP to Rev. Clarence D. Herriott RE: Regrets that he cannot accept Herriott's invitation. [Telegram from Herriott to LP February 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Letter from LP to S. N. Sen, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, RE: Says he never prepared a manuscript of the lectures he gave while in India last February. [Letter from Sen to LP January 25, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from LP to Sidney Roedel, Bendix Aviation Corporation, RE: Says he knows little about Roedel's question regarding aluminum electrodes in a lithium chloride solution. [Letter from Roedel to LP January 9, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
Letter from LP to Sidney W. Benson, University of Southern California, RE: Thanks Benson for his comments on a paper by Iyengar and Lahiri. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
Letter from LP to W. Ballantine Henley, Rotary Club of Los Angeles, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept Henley's invitation to attend the luncheon of the Rotary Club on February 10. [Letter from Henley to LP February 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Letter from LP to Walter Yust, Encyclopaedia Britannica, RE: Thanks Yust for the tear sheets of his and Prof. Swift's articles. Explains the sheets will be bound in permanent volumes of scientific publications. [Letter from Yust to LP January 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1956), #112.22]
Letter from Percy L. Julian, Julian Laboratories, Inc., to Dr. John C. Warner, President, American Chemical Society, RE: Writes that in a recent Dallas hotel announcements for the Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society he noticed a section titled "Hotels for Colored People." Writes that it is unacceptable for such segregation to occur and the American Chemical Society should not hold meetings in cities that deny equal hotel accommodations to all American citizens regardless of race, color, or creed. [Letter from Julian to LP February 3, 1956, Letter from LP to Warner February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964: Box #14.006, Folder #6.4]
Letter from Percy L. Julian, Julian Laboratories, Inc., to LP, RE: Writes that he hopes LP agrees with the observations he made to Dr. Warner in the enclosed letter and would appreciate LP's own representations to him and the appropriate committees. Handwritten note at bottom indicates Julian will either write LP at length re Julian Laboratories or speak with him in March in Phoenix. [Letter from Julian to Warner February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964: Box #14.006, Folder #6.4]
Letter from R. Daudel, Center of Theoretical Chemistry, France, to LP RE: Written in French. Discusses his plans to travel to South America in the fall and mentions the possibility of visiting LP in Pasadena. [Letter from LP to Daudel February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Daudel, Raymond and Pascaline), #89.6]
Letter from Robert B. Corey to Otto K. Behrens, Lilly Research Laboratory, cc: LP, RE: Discusses the growth of crystals of glycogen for X-ray diffraction studies. Explains his intent to attempt to grow the crystals with Dr. Marsh. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Eli Lilly and Company), #111.4]
Memo from LP to Edythe Baker RE: Discusses a comment he made about science and religion on a television show which was later printed in Newsweek. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
Telegram from LP to Robert B. Scott, Jr., University of Alabama, RE: Asks if the plane he plans to travel to Alabama on will hold AHP as well. [Telegram from Scott, Jr to LP February 2, 1956, Letter from Scott, Jr to LP February 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]

February 4 (San Francisco, CA)

Airline ticket: United Airlines: Los Angeles to San Francisco, 12 Noon [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.2]
Check from AHP to Richard Perry for $102.75. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Itinerary: Council of American Bioanalyst - Margaret Beattie Lecture, San Francisco [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Dr. E.B. Chain, F.R.S., Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy, to LP RE: The Avogadro Commemoration Ceremony will be held in Rome during the first week in June. If LP could leave the U.S. at the beginning of June, that would be just right with regard to the timing. Should LP accept the invitation, the Italian Chemical Society will arrange LP's lecture tour through Italy, which would include Naples, Bologna, Milan, and Turin. Besides LP's Avogadro speech, the Italian Chemical Society would also like LP to deliver a lecture on a specific topic from his field in Rome. This would make 6 lectures in all. LP and AHP's journey through Italy will be arranged so that they can also see the art treasures and historic sites of the country. [Letter from LP to Chain January 26, 1956, Telegram from Chain to LP February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.25]
Letter from G. W. Wheland, University of Chicago, to LP RE: Expresses his opinion of the use of the classical structural theory of organic chemistry. Discusses other issues addressed in his book, Resonance in Organic Chemistry. [Letters from LP to Wheland January 26, 1956, February 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Wheland, G. W.), #437.7]
Letter from W. Clarke Wescoe, University of Kansas, to LP RE: Invites LP to give a lecture at the University of Kansas' Student Research Day. [Letter from LP to Wescoe February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Note from Arthur Galston to LP RE: Hopes that LP likes his namesake of the comic strip. Galston says that his lab is now in complete operation and asks when he shall see LP. [Letter from LP to Galston February 28, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Program: Second Annual Margaret Beattie Lecture, The Council of American Bio-analysts and the California Association of Clinical Laboratories, San Francisco, California, February 4, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.6] [Also filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.3 and 1956s.4]

February 5

Airline ticket: United Airlines: San Francisco to Los Angeles, 9 AM [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.2]
Check from AHP to American Association of University Professors for $7.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Barbara Wilson for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Check from AHP to Deley Brothers Linoleum for $165.45. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to E.L. Payne for $34.67. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Friends Committee on Legislation for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Joseph W. Wood for $36.38. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Lieberg's for $8.18. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Mira Loma Mutual Water Company for $18.25. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to National Audubon Society for $16.45. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Check from AHP to National Parks Magazine for $7.75. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to R. Walbridge Pool Company for $31.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Richfield Oil Corporation for $7.54. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Southern Counties Gas Company for $26.53. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Standard Oil Company of California for $20.18. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Letter from Jacques Oudin to LP RE: Requests to visit with LP while in Los Angeles in March. [Letter from Wulf to Oudin February 9, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
Letter from Robert B. Scott, Jr., University of Alabama, to LP RE: Is pleased that LP will take part in the Science Symposium in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the University of Alabama. Discusses details of the symposium and LP's travel arrangements. [Telegram from LP to Scott, Jr. February 3, 1956, Letter from LP to Scott, Jr. February 11, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]

February 6

Check from AHP to Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity for $14.25. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to American Veterans Committee for $5.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Athenaeum for $35.18. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to California Emergency Defense Committee for $15.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Committee to End Sedition Laws for $5.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to McBride Animal Hospital for $3.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to National Audubon Society for $6.95. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Check from AHP to Poppy Cleaners and Dryers for $13.48. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
LP Research Notebook RE: Memorandum: LP to R.B. Corey, re: anomalous dispersion method of studying proteins, February 6, 1956, pp. 59. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 28R]
Letter from Charles E. Weir, National Bureau of Standards, to LP RE: Thanks LP for his comments on Weir's discussion of the binary ionic crystal. [Letter from LP to Weir February 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Letter from Franklin J. Meine, American Peoples Encyclopedia, to LP RE: Asks that LP provide basic personal information for documentation in the APE's list of contributors. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Letter from LP to Gary Felsenfeld, National Institutes of Health. [Letter from Felsenfeld to LP December 10, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Felsenfeld, Gary), #119.3]

February 6, 1956

Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Rational Institutes of Health

Bethesda 14, Maryland

Dear Gary:

I have been pleased to read the manuscript on the tetrachlorocuprate ion, sent with your letter of December 10. I have not found anything in the manuscript to complain about. It is fine that you were able to attack this problem so successfully.

I suppose that your conclusion that the amount of covalent character in a complex of this sort decreases with increase in the number of ligands is closely related to my electroneutrality rule.

I shall look forward to learning about the work that you embark on in your new job.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:ms

Letter from LP to Robert D. Williamson RE: Thanks Williamson for his January 18 letter. [Note from Williamson to LP January 18, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Letter from Robert E. Stewart, Wright Air Development Center, to LP RE: Invites Caltech to submit a proposal on Purchase Request Nr. 5142. Discusses details of the proposal. [Letter from LP to Gentlemen February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Letter from Ruth Hunt, American Peoples Encyclopedia, to LP RE: Asks if LP would write an article on elements for the encyclopedia. Describes details of the article and other articles in the encyclopedia. [Letter from LP to Hunt February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Note from Thomas Lee, University of Chicago, to LP RE: Thanks LP for his January 31 letter. Says he received it before sending his February 2 letter. [Letter from LP to Lee January 31, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence), #231.2]

February 7

Check from AHP to A.C. Vroman Inc for $3.33. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
Letter from Chairman, Committee on Finance, Council of American Bioanalysts, to LP RE: Encloses a check to reimburse LP for his travel expenses. Thanks LP again for the thought-provoking lecture. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.3]
Letter from Kuan Pan, University of California, Berkeley, to LP RE: Warmly thanks LP for his hospitality during Pan's visit to Caltech. Encloses photographs taken during the trip. [Letter from LP to Pan February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

7 February 1956

Dear Peter:

Best wishes for a happy Birthday. Mama and I hope that everything is going well with you, and that you consider the coming year, after it is over, to have been the best in your life so far.

We are looking forward to seeing you before long. I hope that you will come home this summer, to visit us. Perhaps we shall see you in Europe. I have been invited by the Minister of Rational Education of the Republic of France (actually by the Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) to come to France, but he hasn't said when, and I am writing to find out if the month of June would be acceptable to him. I don't know when the vacation comes in France. Also, I have been invited to give the Avogadro commemoration address in Rome, where they are going to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of Avogadro, so that perhaps Mama and I will pop down to Italy for a while. The invitation didn't say when this celebration was to be held, and I have written to find out. I am afraid that if we accept these invitations I shall have to give up the idea of getting out a new edition of The Nature of the Chemical Bond this year. Perhaps we can come home in July, and I can settle down to work on the job then.

I don't want to spend too much time away from the laboratory now, because I want to get the attack on crystalline globular proteins well under way, without delay. I am getting more and more confident in our ability to solve this problem. I haven't heard from Dintzis yet. I am not at all sure that he will be useful in our attack on the problem - we don't need somebody with experience in making chemical modifications of proteins, because that is not a part of our scheme. Instead, we need somebody who is experienced in taking x-ray photographs of crystalline proteins. Very little work along these lines has been done here. If you have any other suggestions to make, about getting somebody who would help with this part of the job (perhaps also with instrumentation), please let me know. We already have two people at work growing crystals, and I think that we shall get a couple of others. The attack that we have planned involves a lot of hard work.

Did you know that Barclay Kamb has been doing some x-ray work this year? He is in his last year as a graduate student in geology, but he has a chemistry pre-doctoral fellowship - the Corning Glass Fellowship - and he is working under my general supervision, on the redetermination of the structure of zunyite, which I had investigated, in a rather superficial way, over 20 years age. Barclay has already done about as good a job on zunyite as has ever been done on a silicate mineral. He has been appointed Assistant Professor of Geology here. He will be in charge of field work in geology - the summer camps - and he plans to continue x-ray research on silicates. He is no longer engaged to the girl whom we visited in Germany.

Mama is in good shape. She puts in about a day a week working with the Quakers, and also some time working with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Love from

[Linus Pauling]

February 8

Letter from Dr. George Tarjan, Pacific State Hospital, to LP RE: Invites LP to deliver one of the two lectures at the Southern California Psychiatric Society Annual Meeting on October 20. Plans to phone LP on the 10th. If LP answers affirmatively, then Dr. Allen Enelow will send the official invitation. Wonders if there has been any news from the Ford Foundation. Tarjan will be at Princeton around the end of the month and will stop at NIMH. [Letter from LP to Tarjan February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.31]
Letter from J. A. Brown to LP RE: Responds to a letter sent by LP on January 5. Says that he will not be applying to enter Caltech in the fall. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
Letter from LP to Bernard Berelson, Behavioral Science Program, Ford Foundation, RE: Thanks for the letter and states some preliminary investigations have begun but no significant discovers have been made. [Letters from Berelson to LP February 2, 1956, April 18, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.2]
Letter from LP to Dr. Martin A. Watkins, Humboldt State College, RE: Grants permission for the local radio station and CBS to broadcast LP's speech on "The Development of American Science" on February 17. Had planned to make his speech interesting to the audience, rather than the sort of formal presentation that would be expected suitable for broadcast. Does not plan to write out the speech, so cannot send a copy. LP and AHP will be arrive by automobile on Thursday afternoon or evening and will stay with Professor Arthur Smith and Mrs. Smith. Suggests that he ask Professor Smith to let him know when they get there so that the news conference can be arranged. [Letters from Watkins to LP February 3, 1956, March 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.6]
Letter from LP to E. Pekelis, Camarillo State Hospital, RE: Says he did not write out his San Francisco lecture but sends a copy of his Harvey lecture which covered similar topics. [Letter from Pekelis to LP February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Letter from LP to G. W. Wheland, University of Chicago, RE: Comments on the man-made character of the theory of resonance addressed in Wheland's Resonance in Organic Chemistry. [Letter from Wheland to LP February 4, 1956, Letter from LP to Wheland March 22, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Wheland, G. W.), #437.7]
Letter from LP to H. S. Mason, University of Oregon Medical School, RE: Comments on Masons' work with hemoglobin and oxygen. [Letter from Mason to LP February 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: Looks forward to the Chemistry and Biochemistry digests. LP does not think that Dr. Earl T. McBee should receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. [Letter from Moe to LP February 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from LP to Kozo Narita, Ochanomizu University, RE: Sends some of his reprints on silk fibroin to Narita. Mentions Narita's work on silk fobroin. [Letter from Narita to LP April 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

8 February 1956

Mr. Peter Pauling

Peterhouse

Cambridge, England

Dear Peter:

I am writing to offer you an appointment in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology for the year 1956-57, with title Research Fellow in Chemistry, salary at the rate of $4500. per year, and the obligation to work on the determination of the structure of crystalline globular proteins by the x-ray diffraction method, in collaboration with other investigators in our laboratories.

In case that you are interested in carrying on this work, and receive a fellowship from some other source, I extend to you an invitation to become a Research Fellow in Chemistry here without stipend from the Institute.

I am making this offer for two reasons. First, I feel that we have a real need here for someone who has had the sort of experience in taking x-ray photographs of crystals that you have obtained during recent years. Your suggestion about mounting a crystal inside a thin spherical glass container seems to me to be a very good one. I am sure that within a few months we shall have a number of protein crystals ready for preliminary x-ray examination, and that we should get ready to subject them to this examination. Moreover, we shall need help and advice about instruments. I am not sure what we shall do about the routine job of collecting intensities. Perhaps we shall hire several girls, and train them to estimate intensities by comparing spots on a set of films.

Did you know that the California Institute of Technology is buying an ElectroData computer? It is supposed to be installed by September.

Another reason for my offering you this job is that I think that our effort to determine the complete structure of a crystalline globular protein is going to be successful, and that you, after working several years on the job, might like to be associated with the successful effort.

The salary $4500 per year is our standard one for a postdoctoral research fellow in his first year after the Ph.D. degree.

It is our custom to have postdoctoral fellows do the sort of work that they are interested in doing. We have some postdoctoral fellows (National Science Foundation Fellows, Noyes Fellows, etc.) who are free to carry on any sort of scientific work that is not incompatible with the facilities of the laboratories. Others are hired on special funds that permit their use in work on the structure of proteins. There are many different ways to attack the problem, and I feel sure that you would find one way, if you accept the job, that would be acceptable to Professor Corey and me. The main reason that our policy of allowing postdoctoral research fellows to carry on the sort of work they like is that we have found by experience (our experience and the experience of other people, such as Pepinsky) that a lot of work gets done by a man if it is what he wants to do, whereas if he is told to do something he may not get very much done.

If there are any questions which you wish to ask about the proposed appointment or the work that you might do under it, please write to me.

Love from

[Linus Pauling]

Letter from LP to Prof Ellsworth D. Dougherty, University of California, RE: Suggests a date for AHP and he to have dinner with Mr and Mrs Dougherty. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1956), #98.21]

Letter from LP to Prof. Thomas Lee, University of Chicago, RE: Expresses disappointment at Lee's decision to not accept the position of Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Caltech. [Letter from Lee to LP February 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence), #231.2]
Letter from LP to Professor I. Fankuchen, Acta Crystallographica, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, RE: Emphasizes that he can not recommend that Geller's manuscript be published, outlines his reasons why. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1957a.4]
Letter from LP to Robert R. Citron RE: Discusses LP's December 2 letter and 1955 paper. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Citron, Robert), #66.1]
Letter from Rev. Raymond G. Manker, All Souls' Church, to LP RE: Two months after LP delivered the 75th Anniversary Address, they are still receiving compliments on his behalf. LP made a terrific impact on their little church. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.37]

February 9

Check from AHP to Occidental College for $5.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to E. T. McBee, Purdue University Department of Chemistry, RE: States that LP will not be in Pasadena when McBee intends to visit. [Letter from McBee to LP February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Jacques Oudin RE: Says LP will be glad to see Oudin while he is in Pasadena in March. [Letter from Oudin to LP February 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
Letter from Harry Hyman, Arthur S. La Pine & Co., to LP RE: Inquires about the molecular models shown in a photograph of LP in Lab World. Asks if the company might reproduce the photograph. [Letter from LP to Hyman February 11, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Letter from William Licht, University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, RE: Asks that LP respond to a questionnaire regarding Caltech's freshman chemistry curriculum to help in the improvement of the University of Cincinnati's Freshman Chemistry program. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence), #231.2]
Newsletter: Federation of American Scientists. [Filed under LP Peace: Federation of American Scientists, 1948-1993: Box #4.007, Folder #7.2]
Newspaper Clipping: "Seek Crystal Secrets," Pasadena (California) Star-News, February 9, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.4]
Telegram from Robert Fischer, Indiana University, to LP RE: Hopes LP will accept his January 25 invitation to lecture at the Summer Institute for College Chemistry Teachers. [Letter from Fischer to LP January 25, 1956, Telegram from LP to Fischer February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1956), #128.21]

February 10

Check from AHP to Peter Pauling for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Counter Receipt from Southern Commercial and Savings Bank for LP for $150.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Letter from California Institute Research Foundation to LP RE: Foundation check for LP for $1,098.86 for payments from royalties received from the A.O. Beckman license. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Tax Documents, 1930-1956: Box #4.001, Folder #1.10]
Letter from Charles Brough to LP RE: Apologizes for the large amount of technical errors in a manuscript he sent to LP for revision but defends the content of the text. [Letter from LP to Brough February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Dr. John C. Warner, President, American Chemical Society, RE: Writes that he agrees with Percy Julian's sentiments and that the members of the American Chemical Society should refuse to go to the Dallas meeting of the Society or any meeting where this sort of segregation is practiced. Handwritten note at bottom: "cc. Dr. Julian" [Letter from Julian to Warner February 3, 1956, Letter from Warner to LP March 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964: Box #14.006, Folder #6.4]
Letter from LP to A. H. T. Robb-Smith, Radcliffe Infirmary, RE: Says he cannot make the commitment to write a chapter for a book on the functions of blood. [Letter from Robb-Smith to LP February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
Letter from LP to Andreas C. Maehly, University of Pennsylvania, RE: Approves and comments on the itinerary for Prof and Mrs. Theorell's visit to the US. Invites the Theorells to visit him while in Pasadena. [Letter from Maehly to LP February 3, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from LP to Dr. George C. Griffith, American College of Physicians, RE: The meeting of the American College of Physicians occurs when LP will be lecturing at the University of Illinois. AHP will also in Illinois. LP may fly to Los Angeles alone for the day of the lecture and then fly back. [Letters from Griffith to LP February 3, 1956, February 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.16]
Letter from LP to Dr. George Tarjan, Pacific State Hospital, RE: Not sure if he can accept the invitation to speak before the Southern California Psychiatric Society on October 20. Has agreed to give the Mead Swing Lectures in Oberlin during the third week in October and will have to check if he can come home on October 19. Wonders if Tarjan can wait two weeks before making a decision about the program. Received a letter from the Ford Foundation saying that they were considering the applications. Will let Tarjan know when he receives word from the Foundation. [Letter from Tarjan to LP February 8, 1956, Letter from Wulf to Tarjan July 24, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.31]
Letter from LP to G. Dupouy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, RE: Writes that he was pleased by Dupouy's letter, inviting him to France to meet other scientific investigators and suggests the month of June as a possible time to visit. Also mentions that July-September would work as well. [Letters from Dupouy to LP January 31, 1956, February 25, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.23]
Letter from LP to Gentlemen, Wright Air Development Center, RE: Informs that Caltech will not submit a proposal on Purchase Request No. 5142. [Letter from Stewart to LP February 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Letter from LP to Hugo Theorell, University of Pennsylvania, RE: Invites Mr and Mrs Theorell to stay with him and AHP during the Theorells' visit to Pasadena. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Theorell, Hugo), #407.2]
Letter from LP to Kaun Pan, University of California, Berkeley, RE: Thanks Pan for his letter and enclosed photographs. Hopes to see Pan again in Berkeley. [Letter from Pan to LP February 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Letter from LP to R. Daudel, Center of Theoretical Chemistry, France, RE: Discusses M and Mme. Daudel's visit to Pasadena and requests that they lecture on their work while in California. [Letters from Daudel to LP February 3, 1956, March 22, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Daudel, Raymond and Pascaline), #89.6]
Letter from LP to Ruth Hunt, American Peoples Encyclopedia, RE: Regrets that he is unable to accept Hunt's invitation to write an article for the encyclopedia. [Letter from Hunt to LP February 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Letter from LP to W. Clarke Wescoe, University of Kansas, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept the invitation to be guest speaker on University of Kansas Student Research Day. [Letter from Wescoe to LP February 4, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Letter from LP to the Senior Tutor, Chris's College, Cambridge RE: Certifies that he has known Duncan E. MacDuffie for two years and believes him to be of good moral character. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from Peter H. Viles to LP RE: Requests permission to make reproductions of four of LP's diagrams for his undergraduate thesis. [Letter from Wulf to Viles February 21, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1956), #427.16]
Letter from W. Keith Hall, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, to LP RE: Addresses questions LP brought up about Hall's manuscript in his January 26 letter. Discusses the d character of nickel and copper atoms and other scientific matters. [Letters from LP to Hall January 26, 1956, March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Telegram from LP to Robert Fischer, Indiana University, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept Fischer's invitation to lecture at the Summer Institute for College Chemistry Teachers. [Telegram from Fischer to LP February 9, 1956, Letter from LP to Fischer February 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1956), #128.21]

February 11

Letter from G. R. Mohan to LP RE: Asks for LP's assistance in obtaining a scholarship to study and work towards a Ph.D at the Weizmann Institute of Science or at Caltech. [Letter from LP to Mohan February 28, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from LP to Dr. Bernard Oser, Food Research Laboratories, Inc., RE: Congratulates Oser on his thirty years of service at the Food Research Laboratories. [Letter from Oser to LP February 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
Letter from LP to Dr. E. Jucker RE: Accepts Jucker's invitation to contribute a paper to the jubilee volume celebrating Prof. A. Stoll's 70th birthday. [Letters from Jucker to LP January 19, 1956, February 21, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1956), #192.22]
Letter from LP to Emil Seletz RE: Thanks him for a photo of a bust of Albert Einstein Seletz created. Compliments Seletz on the art piece. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from LP to Harry Hyman, Arthur S. LaPine and Co., RE: Says the molecular model in a photograph of LP in Lab World was not distributed by Arthur S. LaPine and Co. Discusses details of the atom models he uses. [Letter from Hyman to LP February 9, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: LP would like to recommend that Avrami Melvin be given a Geggenheim Fellowship for another year because Dr. Per-Olov Löwden has great faith in Melvin's work. [Letter from Moe to LP February 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from LP to May Chesler, Food Research Laboratories, Inc., RE: Regrets that he did not receive Chesler's letter in time to contribute to Dr. Oser's book of greetings. [Letter from May Chesler to LP January 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1956), #74.24]
Letter from LP to Mr. A.F. Kudlacik, RE: Discrepancies in LP's information for tax return for 1955. LP has no record of a dividend payment of $195 which appears in the information given to him by Kudlacik. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Royalty Statements, 1938-1995: Box #4.045, Folder #45.1]
Letter from LP to Paul Doty, Harvard University, RE: States he cannot recommend anyone for the assistant professor position. Recommends Tom Bergeman for election in the Society of Fellows. [Letter from Doty to LP January 17, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Doty, Paul), #96.11]
Letter from LP to Professor Hans Neurath, University of Washington, RE: Robert B. Corey and LP propose to prepare a paper tentatively titled "Structural Complementariness of Nucleic Acids." Will plan to submit it before July 1. [Letter from Neurath to LP February 2, 1956, Letter from LP to Neurath May 29, 1956] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1956a.7]
Letter from LP to Professor K.T. Rogers, Zoology Dept., Oberlin College, RE: Has decided not to go to Europe in October 1956, but instead to lecture to the incoming freshmen at Pasadena and to lecture at Oberlin. Suggests October 16-18 for the Oberlin lectures. LP and AHP will arrive at Oberlin on Sunday or Monday and leave on Friday. LP plans to lecture at the California Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting on October 20. [Letter from Rogers to LP December 3, 1955, Letter from LP to Rogers February 13, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.33]
Letter from LP to Professor R.E. Rundle, Chemistry Dept., Iowa State College, RE: Confirms April 2 as the date for the Coover Lecture at Ames. Suggests either "The Structure of Proteins" or "Abnormal Hemoglobin Molecules in Relation to Disease" as the title for his talk. Encloses a copy of a letter to Shriner. Requests that Rundle let Shriner know which title is selected. [Letters from Rundle to LP January 10, 1956, February 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.12]
Letter from LP to Professor Ralph L. Shriner, Chemistry Dept., State University of Iowa, RE: LP will deliver the Coover Lecture at Iowa State College on April 2. Would be available to lecture at the State University of Iowa on April 3. Rundle will choose between the titles "The Structure of Proteins" and "Abnormal Hemoglobin Molecules in Relation to Disease" and will let Shriner know which one he chooses. Perhaps Shriner would like to have the other one, though there would probably be no harm in LP repeating the lecture. LP and AHP will have to leave that evening or early the next morning for Urbana. [Letter from LP to Shriner January 5, 1956, Letter from Shriner to LP February 22, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.13]
Letter from LP to R. I. Stirton, Oronite Chemical Company, RE: Provides bay area high school list requested by Stirton. Briefly discusses Caltech chemistry students from the bay area. [Memo from Asquith to Wulf January 13, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from LP to Robert B. Scott, Jr., University of Alabama, RE: Requests to be released from his agreement to participate in a Science Symposium commemorating the 125th Anniversary of University of Alabama due to recent events in the University of Alabama. [Letters from Scott, Jr. to LP February 5, 1956, February 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Note from Bertil Sandell, AB Nordiska Hormonlaboratoriet, to LP RE: Discusses his work on the distribution of organic compounds between certain solvents and requests LP's opinion. Encloses a reprint from Die Naturwissenschaften. [Letter from LP to Sandell February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]

February 12

Check from AHP to Good Roods for $17.63. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Check from AHP to Prudence Thrift for $39.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956: Box #4.023, Folder #23.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1962: Box #4.075, Folder #75.3]
Check from LP to C.P. Swanson, Treasurer, American Society of Naturalists for $6.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.3]
Check from LP to Federation of American Scientists for $25.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.3]
Check from LP to Society for Social Responsibility in Science for $25.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.3]
Letter from Alan G. MacDiarmid, University of Pennsylvania, to LP RE: Presents a question regarding the calculation of inter-atomic distances. [Letter from LP to MacDiarmid February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from Hans-Joachim Brüchner to LP RE: Brüchner's thesis on the nitrogen molecule. Asks LP to send his opinion on the work to Prof. Scheibe to aid the faculty in the appraisal of the work. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]

February 13 (Berkeley, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from A.F. Kudlacik to LP RE: responding to LP's letter of 2/11/1956, the dividend payment in question was paid to LP on February 8, 1955. The check was mailed to LP and cleared LP's bank in March. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Royalty Statements, 1938-1995: Box #4.045, Folder #45.1]
Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Dr. T.H. Geballe [Note from Geballe to LP February 19, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]

13 February 1956

Dr. T. H. Geballe

204 Springfield Avenue

Summit, New Jersey

Dear Dr. Geballe:

I have thought for some time that I would write to your aunt, who was my first science teacher, and I am accordingly writing to you to ask for her address. I have not seen her for a long time.

Sincerely yours,

Dictated by Linus Pauling

Signed in his absence: W

Letter from LP to Professor K.T. Rogers, Oberlin College, RE: Wonders if the dates of his Oberlin lectures can be moved to the fourth week of October, so that he can get a good start with his General Chemistry lectures at Pasadena. Suggests that LP and AHP arrive in Oberlin on October 22. [Letters from LP to Rogers February 11, 1956, February 29, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.33]
Letter from LP to Rollie J. Myers, Jr., UC Berkeley, RE: Invites Myers to come to Caltech as an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Discusses details of the appointment. [Letter from Meyers to LP February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from Linus Pauling to Crellin Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.048, Folder #48.6]

13 February 1956

Dear Crellin:

Mama and I are planning to leave home on the morning of Friday 23 March, flying to Portland. I suppose that we could arrive in time for me to give a talk in the late afternoon on Friday; surely in the evening, or on Saturday, if that is better for you. I am willing to do anything that you want, so you may see about making whatever plans you can make.

We shall perhaps continue on to Vancouver, B.C. by the train leaving Saturday night. If the weather is good we might go by plane on Sunday. We are planning to leave Vancouver at 8 P.M. on Sunday.

As for the summer, I should like to have you continue to work on making drawings for the Nature of the Chemical Bond, if you sure willing to do so. There is, however, a possibility that Mama and I shall be away for part of the summer - perhaps the month of June and two weeks of July. I think that we could give you a job in the laboratory during the time that we are away. We have a protein structure project that is beginning to move along now. There are a couple of inorganic preparations that need to be made in connection with it, namely, preparations of the substances Ta₆Cl₁₄ and Nb₆Cl₁₄. The preparation of Ta₆Cl₁₄ is reasonably straightforward. Something like 10 grams can be made in one batch, taking a few days. We may want to have some more of this substance made. The preparation of Cd₆Cl₁₄ seems to be harder to accomplish. Professor F. J. Allen is now working on this preparation. I think that the substance has been made only once before, by Professor Herbert Hamed, as part of his doctorate research in the University of Pennsylvania, 1910 to 1913.

If it turns out that we do not need to have more of these substances made (Dr. Segall, who made the first batches of Ta₆Cl₁₄, will be at hand here, in case that you work on this job), there is the possibility of your working with Dr. Leung in the growing of protein crystals. This job requires careful technique, and I think that Dr. Leung might be willing to have you as an assistant on the job. We are going to try to make crystals of a very large number of proteins, so that I think there would be enough to keep you busy.

Mama and I are leaving now for our trip to Berkeley, Arcata (near Eureka, northern California), and Stanford. We shall be home in two weeks.

Love from

[Linus Pauling]

Letter from Michael Swann, Ashworth Laboratory, University of Edinburgh, to LP RE: Invites LP to speak before the Departmental Colloquium at the University. [Letter from LP to Swann February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from Peter Pauling to LP RE: Peter reports on the latest details of his research and personal life. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]
Letter from W. H. Freeman & Co. Publishers to LP RE: statement of royalty dividends paid to LP on February 8, 1955. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Royalty Statements, 1938-1995: Box #4.045, Folder #45.1]
Program: American Heritage Week, Humboldt State College, Arcata, California, February 13-17, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.6]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Colorado, Denver [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 14 (Berkeley, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from George Wald, Harvard University, to LP RE: Discusses the investigation of certain isomers. Proposes solutions to problems in the investigation. [Letter from LP to Wald February 3, 1956, Memo from Eichhorn to LP February 29, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Wald, George), #431.1]
Letter from LP to Dr. Frank D. White, Biochemistry Dept., University of Manitoba, RE: LP and AHP plan to arrive in Winnipeg on March 27 by train from Vancouver. Requests a room in the Fort Garry Hotel March 27-31. Accepts invitation to deliver an informal talk to the medical students. Suggests that it be held on March 28. Some years ago, agreed to speak before the local sections of the Chemical Institute of Canada. Encloses copy of the letter which he has sent to Garnet Page offering to do so in conjunction with the trip to Winnipeg. [Letters from White to LP January 19, 1956, March 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.9]
Letter from LP to Garnet T. Page RE: Has accepted the invitation to deliver the Merck Lecture at the University of Manitoba on March 29. At present, LP and AHP plan to leave Vancouver by train on March 25, arriving in Winnipeg on March 27. Offers rearrange his schedule to as to speak before the Chemical Institute of Canada's Vancouver Section, which Page suggested some years ago. Could speak before the Winnipeg Section on March 30 or 31. Must be in Iowa by evening of April 1. [Letter from Kirsch to LP March 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.9]
Letter from LP to Hans-Joachim Brüchner RE: Thanks Brüchner for a 28 December letter. Briefly discusses heat of dissociation of nitrogen. [Letter from LP to Brüchner December 2, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
Letter from LP to Martin Karplus, University of Illinois, RE: Addresses Karplus' recent work on revising Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. Discusses the work of Bruchner, Lowdin and McWeeny. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Karplus, Martin), #197.6]
Letter from LP to William T. Scott, Smith College, RE: Discusses his knowledge regarding the Wrinch protein theory and Anslow's cage model for insulin. [Letters from Scott to LP January 5, 1956, March 29, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Colorado, Denver [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 15 (Berkeley, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Dr. K. H. Gustavson to LP RE: Compliments LP on his Nobel lectures of 1954. Discusses his current work with Collagen and the function of the hypro-OH. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1956), #140.20]
Letter from H.S. Gutowsky, University of Illinois, to LP RE: Offers his house for LP and AHP to stay in while he is visiting the University of Illinois. Gutowsky will be in Berkeley as a visiting lecture, so he will not be in Illinois while LP is there. [Letter from LP to Gutowsky March 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from Helen L. Brownson, Program Director for Scientific Documentation, National Science Foundation, to LP RE: Asks LP to review the enclosed proposal No. N-98. [Proposal Review for N-98 February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989: Box #14.029, Folder #29.3]
Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to LP RE: Glad LP sent his last letter because he wrote to Dr. Löwdin before he found out he was in the United States. Explains how Warren Weaver was wary about the initial awarding of a Fellowship to Dr. Melvin and that Weaver now owes him a dinner. [Letter from LP to Moe February 11, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from LP to Philip A. Vaughan, Rutgers University, RE: Inquires about a sample of the compound Cb6Cl14. [Letter from Vaughan to LP February 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1956), #427.16]
Letter from LP to Prof. Robert Fischer, Indiana University, RE: Regrets that he had to decline Fischer's invitation to lecture in the Summer Institute for College Teachers. [Telegram from LP to Fischer February 10, 1956, Letter from Fischer to LP February 28, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1956), #128.21]
Letter from LP to Professor Herbert Harned, Chemistry Dept., Yale University, RE: LP and AHP are looking forward to seeing Harned and his wife. Will give a talk to the Yale Law School Forum on April 23. Will not attend the meeting of the National Academy. Plans to fly to New York on April 21 and rent a car to drive to New Haven. Would like to talk to Harned about subchloride of columbium, which he needs for protein structure work. Dr. Segall has been unsuccessful in making it and now Professor F.J. Allen is attempting to make it. If Allen does not succeed, he may write to Harned for suggestions on how to make it. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.17]
Letter from Louise O. Simonson, Lab World, to LP RE: Asks that LP review an abstract Simonson wrote of his talk on "Abnormal Hemoglobin Molecules in Relation to Disease" for publication in Lab World. Asks for further assistance regarding the abstract. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence), #231.2]
Letter from Professor R.E. Rundle, Chemistry Dept., Iowa State College, to LP RE: Selects "The Structure of Proteins" as the title for LP's talk. Wonders which nights LP will spend in Ames and whether he will need reservations. [Letter from LP to Rundle February 11, 1956, Letter from Wulf to Rundle March 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.12]
Letter from Richard L. Brookbank, Northwest College Lectures and Concerts Association, to LP RE: Requests that LP consider taking a lecture tour to the colleges in the Association. Discusses details of the lecture tour. [Letter from LP to Brookbank February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Letter from W. H. Pickering, Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to LP, G. W. Beadle, L. A. DuBridge, et al. RE: Lists the seven procedures required for C. I. T. Computing on the JPL-Electro-Data Computer. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Manuscript Notes: Molecular Structure and Biological Specificity, Berkeley, California. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.5]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Colorado, Denver [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 16 (Berkeley, CA)

Inter-office memo from Makio Murayama to LP RE: Discusses work with dialysis of normal and sickle-cell hemoglobins and other scientific matters. Encloses explanatory diagrams and tables. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Albert V. Baez, University of Redlands, to LP RE: Invites LP to speak before the Society for Social Responsibility in Science. Discusses LP's membership status in the SSRS. [Letter from LP to Baez March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from Bruno J. Zwolinski, Chemistry Program, National Science Foundation, to LP RE: Asks LP to review Proposal No. P-2262. [Proposal Review for P-2262 February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989: Box #14.029, Folder #29.3]
Letter from Dr. Bernard Oser, Food Research Laboratories, Inc., to LP RE: Thanks LP for his congratulatory message. Says he is grateful to have made so many friends throughout his career. [Letter from LP to Oser February 11, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
Letter from Katsuya Inouye, Resources Research Institute, to LP RE: Says he has been nominated to the U.S. Department of State and the Board of Foreign Scholarships as a candidate for Research Scholar. Asks LP to consider him for a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Chemistry at Caltech. [Letter from LP to Inouye February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1956), #185.17]
Letter from Robert B. Scott Jr., University of Alabama, to LP RE: Expresses understanding and regret at LP's decision to no longer take part in the Science Symposium commemorating the 125th Anniversary of University of Alabama. Expresses regret for the recent events at University of Alabama which caused LP to make his decision. [Letters from LP to Scott, Jr. February 11, 1956, March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from William Moffitt, Harvard University, to LP RE: Discusses possibly of visiting Caltech and giving a lecture. [Letter from Hughes to Moffitt February 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Colorado, Denver [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Telegram from Beatrice Wulf to LP RE: Dictates a telegram from the Chinese Chemical Society re: Invites LP to China to give a series of lectures and participate in the Executive Council meeting. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Telegram from Chinese Chemical Society to LP RE: Invites LP to come to China to give a series of lectures and participate in an executive council meeting. [Telegram from Wulf to LP March 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]

February 17 (Arcata, CA)

Check from AHP to Committee to End Sedition Laws for $5.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Check from LP to Peter Pauling for $500.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Itinerary: American Heritage Week, Humboldt State College, Arcata California [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Allan Botshon, Yale Law School Forum, RE: LP and AHP will arrive in New Haven on April 21. They plan to fly from Chicago to New York on that day and then will probably rent a car and drive up to New Haven. Botshon can write to LP in care of the chemistry department at the University of Illinois during most of April. LP and AHP will leave New Haven on April 24. [Letter from Botshon to LP January 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.17]
Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Carroll Henry Weiss, Medicine in the News, RE: Says LP has been unable to provide the requested abstract of his Margaret Beattie Lecture. [Letter from Weiss to LP January 25, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Edna M. Northrop RE: Informs Northrop that no one at Caltech can provide the she is looking for. [Letter from Northrop to Caltech January 24, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Letter from H. Nanjo, Kyoritsu Syuppan Co., Ltd., to LP RE: States that Protein Chemistry vol. 4 has recently been published including LP's article, "Abnormal Hemoglobin Molecules in Relation to Disease." Sends copies to LP and requests Dr. Itano's address. [Letter from LP to Nanjo February 24, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Letter from Julia Pauling to LP and AHP RE: Prior to her marriage to Peter, Julia writes to introduce herself to Linus and Ava Helen. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Peter Pauling Box #5.042 Folder #42.3]
Letter from LP to Dr. Elihu Goldish, The Ohio State University RE: Gald to have received Goldish's postcard, LP was disappointed that he had not come to say goodbye. Asks Goldish to please return the five keys he has checked out to him. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from Leonard K. Nash, Harvard University, to Chairman, Department of Chemistry, RE: Writes a recommendation of Marilyn Lynch for a position in the Department Chemistry at Caltech. Discusses her potential abilities and her work and early progress at Harvard. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Letter from Maurice Galy, Counseiller Culturel Adjoint, to LP RE: Written in French. Invites LP to come to France on invitation of M. Dupouy sometime during the year of 1956. [Letter from LP to Galy April 18, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.23]
Letter from Normans Cousins, Saturday Review, to LP RE: Asks for LP's opinion of a monthly supplement to The Saturday Review. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Cousins, Norman), #68.6]
Letter from Peter Pauling to Linus Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

8, Wiillberforce House

Northside, Clapham Comm

SW4. London

17 Feb 1956

Dear Mamma and Daddy,

I am sorry, I feel my last letter was written under a good deal of duress. I have, on Tuesday, with the aid of some friends such as Victor & Linda, spoken to Mariette and told her I was marrying Julia. She (M) is upset, but several friends in Cambridge are comforting and wooing her. She will be all right.

I shall marry Miss Julia Lewis of 63 Curzon St. Long Eaton, Nottingham, and of Girton College next week, in Cambridge, I think. John Kendrew will be best man. Julia is 20, 5'6", delicately beautiful, and very intelligent. She reads French & German Literature, and has been described as the year's best student. She got a first (highest degree) in her first year's examinations. She loves me and I love her.

I have been sent down, though the Master of Peterhome and the Mistress of Girton have broken precedent to the extent that they will agree to our being married in Cambridge, though there cannot be any large official parties in this sense it is better you are not here, as it would be difficult not to have parties if you were.

Bragg has agreed in principle to giving me space and facilities to complete my work, and we shall consider the advisability of proceeding to an external London PhD. If I wish to complete this work, if perhaps not proceed to the degree

We shall go Sunday to see the parents, to convince them that I shall be able to make Julia happy and that I shall be able to support her and that you shall not abandon me. Then we shall probably be here in London Monday & go to Cambridge to be married. Letters to Peter home about them will be delivered to Kendrew who will give them to me. Kendrew is a remarkable man, whom I have grown to love. He has shown the most human and warm feelings.

I am convinced that Julia will make a beautiful wife, and that we shall be happy. John Kendrew will write an appreciation. She is lovely and strong and couragous. Our baby will be beautiful and delicately featured and fine.

I think it not likely I must flee the country. There should be no trouble. Something is terribly wrong with Julia's brother-in-law and her sister, but I can do little but have no contact. I cannot understand these families.

We shall get a flat in London, which will be very nice. London should be lived in for a while.

Kendrew says that the opinions of me of those whose opinions I might value have not been affected.

Much love, dear Mamma

and Daddy,

(XXXOOO)^google!

Peter

Letter from Unknown to Prof. Kenneth Hedberg, Oregon State College, RE: Says the manuscript Hedberg sent for a contribution number has gone off to the Journal. Comments on California's recent unusually dry weather. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hedberg, Kenneth), #153.1]

Magazine Article: "Modern Structural Chemistry," Science, February 17, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.5]

Manuscript: Notes for LP's speech "The Development of American Science," 11 AM, American Heritage Week, February 13-17, Humboldt State College. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.6]

Newspaper Clipping: "Dr. Pauling to Speak at College," Eureka (California) Humboldt Times, February 17, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.6]

Newspaper Clipping: "Heritage Week Climaxes in 11 A.M. Address," Humboldt State College (Arcata, California) Lumberjack, February 17, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.6]

Newspaper Clipping: "Pauling Asks More Training for Science," Eureka (California) Humboldt Times, February 17, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.4]

Note from Jack Dunitz, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to Bea RE: Fondly reminisces about his and Barbara's time spent in the U. S. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Dunitz, Jack D.), #96.21]

Proposed Itinerary: University of Colorado, Denver [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

Speech: "The Development of American Science," 11 AM, American Heritage Week, February 13-17, Humboldt State College. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.6]

Telegram from John Lear, Saturday Review, to LP RE: [Letter from LP to John Lear March 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Scientific American, 1948-1995), #374.9]

February 18 (Berkeley, CA)

Check from AHP to Linda Pauling for $125.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Check from AHP to Pearl M. Jordan for $87.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956# Box #4.023, Folder #23.2]
Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Dr. Ralph Spitzer to LP RE: Understands that LP and AHP will be spending Good Friday in Winnipeg. Since school will be closed that day and nothing official will be going on, invites them to visit Spitzer and his wife. Offers to supply a car and chauffeur if LP would like to run any errands or visit historical spots. Would also like to get together with LP and Mark Nickerson to discuss the blocking effect of quaternary ammonium compounds on various synaptic junctions in the neuromuscular system. [Letter from LP to Spitzer February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.9]
Note from Aida Sloan to LP RE: Says she sent a contribution to the Dr. Howard Sloan Memorial Research Fund in honor of LP's birthday. [Letter from LP to Sloan March 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Colorado, Denver [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Receipt from Federation of American Scientists to LP for $25.00 dues. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Tax Documents, 1930-1956: Box #4.001, Folder #1.10]
Speech: "Abnormal Hemoglobin Molecules in Relation to Disease," 4 PM, Division of Natural Science Seminar, American Heritage Week, February 13-17, Humboldt State College. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.6]

February 19 (Berkeley, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Note from Ted Geballe to LP RE: Gives LP his aunt's address and says she would be happy to hear from LP. Geballe would be happy to show LP around if he ever visits Bell Laboratories. [Letter from LP to Geballe February 13, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Colorado, Denver [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 20 (Berkeley, CA)

Check from AHP to Crellin Pauling for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Check from AHP to Mrs. Elizabeth Gillette for $10.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Dr. George C. Griffith, American College of Physicians, to LP RE: Sorry that LP and AHP will be unable to attend the social activities of the College. Requests that LP let Griffith know if there is any change in plans. Offers to help in facilitating LP's trip from Illinois to Los Angeles and return. [Letter from LP to Griffith February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.16]
Letter from Edward W. Hughes to William Moffitt, Harvard University, RE: Discusses dates and other details of Moffitt's March visit and seminar at Caltech. [Letter from Moffitt to LP February 16, 1956, Letter from LP to Moffitt February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from Mizuho Odagiri, Kinki University, to LP RE: Introduces himself as head of Theoretical Chemistry Research at Kinki University. Requests LP's suggestions and opinion on his work on Science Reports on Theoretical Chemistry which he sent LP at an earlier date. [Letter from LP to Odagiri March 19, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
Letter from Robert L. Robinson, Public Information Officer, American Psychiatric Association, to LP RE: Reminds LP to submit a summary of his paper for the APA Annual Meeting by March 1. The summaries will be published in pamphlet form. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.21]
Letter from Thomas F. Ball, Hughes Aircraft Company, from Lee A. DuBridge, Caltech, cc: LP, RE: Explains a plan for a "Conducted Student Tour" through the Hughes research and development facilities for Caltech, USC and UCLA students. Provides brief details and asks from DuBridge's reaction to the idea. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
Petty Cash Accounting from 4-16-55 to 2-18-56. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Tax Documents, 1930-1956: Box #4.001, Folder #1.10]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 21 (Berkeley, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Beatrice J. Wulf, Secretary to LP, to John Leo Abernethy, California State Polytechnic College, RE: Explains that a manuscript of LP's talk "The Genesis of Ideas" is not available. [Letters from Abernethy to Wulf January 20, 1956, February 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1956), #12.22]
Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Peter H. Viles RE: Informs that LP is out of town. Assures that LP would give Viles permission to use his figures. [Letter from Viles to LP February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1956), #427.16]
Letter from Dr. E. Jucker to LP RE: Thanks LP for his willingness to write an article for the jubilee volume for Prof. A. Stoll's birthday. [Letter from LP to Jucker February 11, 1956, Letter from Jucker to LP June 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1956), #192.22]
Letter from Edwin J. Barth, Chemical and Petroleum Engineer Consultant, to LP RE: Thanks LP for his January 27 letter and asks for suggestions of other groups that would be interested in researching asphalts. [Letter from LP to Barth January 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
Letter from O.H. Gaebler to LP RE: Lets LP know that Academic Press has consented to allow purchase of 200 reprints of each of the articles in the Enzyme Symposium Volume, instead of only 100. Note on top: "LP- Do you want to order the extra 100?" followed by a "no." [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from Prof. J. I. Ferdández Alonso, University of Valencia, to LP RE: Responds to LP's February 11 letter. Sends a copy of the prologue he wrote for the new edition of General Chemistry and briefly discusses its length. Discusses a manuscript presenting results regarding phosphorus and other scientific matters. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1956), #128.21]
Letter from Stuart H. Parker to LP RE: Says he must leave Caltech due to the expiration of his Exchange-Visitor visa. Thanks LP for the opportunity to work in the laboratories. [Letter from LP to Parker March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Letter from Zenaida V. de los Santos, St. Scholastica's College, to LP RE: Requests information on Arrhenius' Theory of Electrolytic Dissection for her Bachelor of Arts thesis. [Letter from LP to V. de los Santos February 29, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 22 (Berkeley, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from H. J. Emeleus, University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge, to LP RE: Asks for LP's opinion regarding the admission of D. E. MacDuffie to the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry as a research student. [Letter from LP to Emeleus February 28, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1956), #112.22]
Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to LP RE: Encloses stamps and envelopes for LP to return the Chemistry and Biochemistry digests as well as his opinions of the applicants. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from LP to Professor Ralph L. Shriner, Chemistry Dept., State University of Iowa, RE: Pleased that LP will be able to include Iowa in his trip. Selects "The Structure of Proteins" as the title for LP's lecture at State University of Iowa. April 3 would be satisfactory. Will arrange hotel reservations and the exact lecture time later. [Letter from LP to Shriner February 11, 1956, Letter from Wulf to Shriner March 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.13]
Letter from Robert Livingston Schulyer, Editor, Dictionary of American Biography, to LP RE: LP's article on Arthur Amos Noyes, which was due on January 1, has not yet arrived. Would like to know when they can expect to receive it. [Letter from LP to Schulyer March 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1956a.2]
Memorandum from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Graphic Arts RE: Asks them to run 300 copies of "Systematic Elemental Analysis, Section III. The System of Analysis" by E.H. Swift, to be bound and sold at the Bookstore. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 23 (Palo Alto, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from George E. Morris to LP RE: Asks for assistance with a problem concerning the structural chemistry of basic chrome sulfate of dermatological purposes. Mentions LP's article in the February issue of Science and requests reprints of previous articles of LP's. [Letter from LP to Morris March 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from Gerard Piel, Scientific American, to LP RE: Explains the success that the first set of Scientific American books has achieved. Discusses adding an article written by LP to the book on chemistry and royalty arrangements. [Letters from LP to Piel February 3, 1956, February 29, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Scientific American, 1948-1995), #374.9]
Letter from John Leo Abernethy, California State Polytechnic College, to Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, RE: Publication of LP's talk about the "Genesis of Ideas" in the Journal of Chemical Education. [Letter from Wulf to Abernethy February 21, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1956), #12.22]
Letter from Louis Lineberry, Biological Warfare Laboratories, to Dean, Department of Chemistry, Caltech, RE: Requests information regarding Caltech's courses on Explosives Chemistry for use in planning and training personnel at Fort Detrick. [Letter from LP to Lineberry March 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence), #231.2]
Letter from Philip A. Vaughan, Rutgers University, to LP RE: Informs that he does not have the Nb6Cl14 LP inquired about. Describes the preparation of Ta6Cl14 and Ta6Br14. [Letter from LP to Vaughan February 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1956), #427.16]
Letter from William V. Consolazio, Program Director for Molecular Biology, National Science Foundation, to LP RE: Asks LP to review the enclosed grant proposal No. B-3407. [Proposal Review for B-3407 February 27, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989: Box #14.029, Folder #29.3]
Newsletter: Federation of American Scientists. [Filed under LP Peace: Federation of American Scientists, 1948-1993: Box #4.007, Folder #7.2]
Newspaper Clipping: "AAUW to Hear Dr. Pauling," Pasadena (California) Star-News, February 23, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.4]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 24 (Berkeley, CA)

Itinerary: University of California Lectures, Berkeley Lecture [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Dr. Zigmond M. Lebensohn, American Psychiatric Association, to LP RE: Requests that LP send copies of his paper on "The Molecular Basis of Genetics" to the two discussants and to the APA. [Letter from Lebensohn to LP December 8, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.21]
Letter from LP to H. Nanjo, Kyoritsu Syuppan Co., Ltd. [Letter from Nanjo to LP February 17, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]

25 February 1956

Mr. H. Nanjo, President

Kyoritsu Syuppan Co., Ltd.

9, 3-Chome Kanda Surugadai

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Japan

Dear Mr. Nanjo:

I am pleased to learn from your letter of 17 February that volume 4 of PROTEIN CHEMISTRY has been published. I look forward to seeing the book and thank you very much for sending me two copies.

I know that Dr. Itano too will be pleased to receive copies. His address is: National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 14, Maryland.

Please return my best regards to Professor Mizushima.

My wife and I remember with much pleasure our visit to Japan last year.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

W

Letter from N. N. Saha, University, Rangoon, to LP RE: Explains his research and history in India. Mentions the death of M. N. Saha. Requests assistance in attaining a research position in the U.S. [Letter from LP to Saha March 19, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from Paul E. Pulliam to LP RE: Inquires about the meaning of specific passages in LP's College Chemistry. References specific pages and discusses topics covered including triple-valence bound nitrogen molecules and Le Chatelier's principle. [Letter from LP to Pulliam March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
Newspaper Clipping: "Prize-Winning Scientist Says Discovery Came to Him in Bed," Stanford Daily, February 24, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960: Box #6.007, Folder #7.6] [Also filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.7]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 25

Letter from G. Dupouy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, to LP RE: Written in French. Writes that the month of June would be convenient for LP's visit to France and asks LP to write when he knows which day he will arrive. [Letters from LP to Dupouy February 10, 1956, April 18, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.23]
Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ryback and son to LP RE: Wishing LP good health and a happy birthday. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
Letter from Peter Pauling to Linus Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

182 Broomwood Road

London SW.11

25^th Feb 1956

Dear Mamma and Daddy,

I am sorry to worry you so. I rang originally to counter the misinformation in my first letter which I feared would worry you. Then I had to say a great deal on the phone but I though you would be home the next day.

Things are becoming quite settled. I and Julia shall marry Saturday March 3^rd at 12:30 in Cambridge Registry Office, which has been allowed by the Master of Peterhouse and the Mistress of Girton. We shall have a few friends in at 2:30 at John Kendrew's house to have a glass of champagne. We shall live for a while in a newly furnished ugly Victorian suburban house in Clapham at the above address. It ought to be quite pleasant. I shall work at the Royal Institution until at least June finishing. I think it will be impossible to get a degree here, though this is not final. Bernal is on to it but I have not heard anything.

Julia is a rather smart girl with beautiful delicate features. She is rather intelligent and the dolls at Girton seem to consider her not continuing her education to be the tragedy of the decade.

Thank you for the wedding present. I feel I must resign the NSF though they will not like it anymore than I do. So we shall have to live on the wedding present for a while. This will work though.

You had better write my father-in-laws. He seems to put granting his permission for Julia to marry as a condition hearing from you, though I do not know what he expects you to say. The less the better. (He has signed the form actually but says only conditionally till hearing from you.)

Dear parents, I hope you are not too upset.

Much love,

XXXXOOOO

Peter

Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 26

Letter from LP to Royal H. Sorenson, Veterans Administration Hospital, RE: Says he has sent Sorenson's February 13 letter to Dr. Itano who can better answer the question it presents. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]

Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.037, Folder #37.8]

February 26, 1956

Dear Mom and Pop,

At last, the breaking of the silence! I really feel ashamed at being such a poor correspondent, but it doesn't seem to help--I don't write more often.

First I want to thank you very very much for the absolutely magnificently chosen Christmas present. It took me right back to childhood and adolescence to sat those delicious and so specifically Mom jams as quince honey and Satsuma plum! And it reminded me that nothing since compares, either. I get into fights with the children because I want to save it all for me, but they like it too and demand some.

It makes me glad, too, to know that you are still making these things. It is a parental attachment string which no matter how independent one pretends to be still feels good to have.

All of this reminds me that in a couple of weeks I'll be thirty-one. A great deal has occurred in that period of time, a great deal of water under the bridge, to use a mossy cliche, and looking back on it now I wonder if the joys of offspring are worth the trouble they inevitably cause from time to time. I examine the escapades, heartaches, stupidities, and experiments that I and my siblings have (and are!) perpetrating at the expense of the paternal peace of mind (and maternal, even more) and I almost regret fathering so many myself. It is impossible to expend so much energy bringing up a bunch of whelps and not have expectations, but it is a mistake because disappointment is so inevitable. I'm looking forward with trepidation to my own reactions, and I'm hoping my equanimity holds up and the optimistic outlook keeps the title.

To prove that optimism is champion at present, our new house is planned for five children's rooms! I hope that is enough--I can't look any farther into the future. As the psychiatrists say, one cannot really rest until he has had more children than his father. If that were universal, old Malthus would have long ago been vindicated!

Our new house is occupying our attention these days. We bought a lot of an acre on Tantalus, that mountain behind Honolulu, that fascinating and beautiful mountain with the combination of temperate and tropical climate and vegetation. Our lot is at the end of a steep and narrow ridge, one side of which drops off very sharply into Manoa Vally, and the other less sharply toward Nuuanu. We have a striking view therefore, on one side Diamond Head and the limitless Pacific, on the other the airport, Pearl Harbor, the cane fields of Waipahu, and the Waianae range of mountains. In back of us is the wet rampart of the Koolau mountains that form the backbone of the island, and directly in front is a rounded and forested mountain that fortuitously hides most of the city! A remarkable place; there are not too many with such a combination of advantages. There is only one close neighbor, and he is on a lower level, and therefore invisible, although his children are occasionally audible.

And the house is tremendously exciting. We have known for some time Vladimir Ossipoff, a local architect, and he is producing a brilliantly executed idea, a scheme reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright in that it is based on the hexagon as a fundamental modular shape, but better than Wright in that the house is tremendously livable and comfortable (at least in my fantasy--it's not built yet). The general shape is vaguely like yours, an open three-wing house, with 120⁰ angles and six-sided rooms where practicable.

[Hand drawn sketch of the architecture of the house]

This house contains all of our ideas, such as a kitchen-living room where all will congregate before dinner so the hostess can cook and converse at the same time, and containing the table close at hand for ease of setting and serving, and also fireplace, hi-fi, and the other amenities. Then next to it is the living room-library, a more conventional place for after-dinner escape into relaxation, and containing, I hope, my 2000 books. Other little inclusions are a covered space about equivalent to a two-car garage for the children to play outside when it rains (which it does rather often). It is good that it rains often, because there is no water supply up there, and all of it must be collected off the roof and stored in tanks. It is as soft as can be.

Also in the scheme is a tremendous amount of storage space, children's rooms in pairs with a movable partition between sets, a workshop, and our bathroom with a tub, stall shower, and two washbowls.

Last of all is a guestroom which is above the entrance and has windows into the front hall (what a room!).

Speaking of guestrooms, Anita and I have a proposal to make, and it is that you and any other family members within reach visit us next Christmas. It would make a nice vacation for all, and would get us all together, in addition to being a very pleasant house-warming for us. I think we could hold everyone, although some of our children would have to double up.

I ask you now because I know how beset by invitations, travels, lectures, and all other commitments you always are these days, and I want to get our bid in before it's too late.

Our little Ramona is a wonderful baby, goodnatured and easy to care for. She is healthy and growing fast, and is in a delightful stage of responsiveness now at four months. The boys are hellions overflowing with unbelievable energy, the very thought of which exhausts me.

I think you should see them all again. I know they would be overjoyed to see you.

Anita is going on a month's journey to Europe, and will spend some time with Pete if he's still there, as she will not be leaving here until about the 8th of April. She will return about the first or second week of May, and would like to see you if you're in town as she goes through.

Well, so ends this epistolary (or something) catharsis. I feel much better, relieved of a weight, as it were, and yet left with the definite feeling of satisfaction that goes along with having produced something.

By the way, apropos of nothing, I am just finishing up a six-month's full-time tour of duty in Hawaii's equivalent to the state mental hospital; an illuminating experience. I now go back to Queen's for six months, then, I hope, private practice.

It's late.

Much love,

Linus

Letter from Professor Richard A. Ogg, Jr., Chemistry Dept., Stanford University, RE: Appreciated his stimulating discussion with LP during his visit to Stanford. Hopes that LP will consider the proposals Ogg has made, especially regarding the tunnel effect in aluminum borohydride. Their current experimental work points strongly to the selective tunnel effect in the exchange between hydrogen atoms and hydrogen molecules in certain solvents or at interfaces. [Letter from LP to Ogg, Jr. March 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.7]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 27 (San Gabriel, CA)

Itinerary: A.A.U.W. (San Gabriel) Science in the Modern World [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from E. Thilo, Deutsche Akademie Der Wissenschaften Zu Berlin, RE: Written in German. Sends LP a copy of his, "Vorlesungen." Looks forward to receiving LP's Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Letter from LP to Thilo April 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Thilo, E.), #407.3]
Letter from LP to Alan G. MacDiarmid, University of Pennsylvania. [Letter from MacDiarmid to LP February 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]

27 February

1956

Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid

John Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania

Dear Professor Macdiarmid:

In answer to your letter, I would say that in making the interatomic-distance calculations that you mention, it would be proper to use the same tetrahedral single-bond covalent radius for zinc as in zinc sulfide, namely, 1.31, and in the cobalt complexes to use the octahedral single-bond covalent radius, 1.22 Å.

It seems likely that the amount of partial ionic character is such as to make the central atom essentially electrically neutral, so that no modification of the radius because of the charge should be made.

In the case of the cyanides, there is probably some double-bond character to the bonds. This may lead to a decrease in distance, perhaps by as much as 0.05 Å.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W

Letter from LP to Bertil Sandell, AB Nordiska Hormonlaboratoriet, RE: Agrees with Sandell's notes on his investigation of the distribution of organic compounds between certain solvents. [Note from Sandell to LP February 11, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from LP to Charles Brough RE: Comments of Brough's manuscript. Suggests that Brough present his main thesis in a short essay. [Letter from Brough to LP February 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
Letter from LP to Dr. Ralph Spitzer, RE: Thanks Spitzer for offering to look after LP and AHP on their visit to Winnipeg. Will be pleased to talk with Spitzer and Mark Nickerson about their work. Thinks March 30 would be a good time for LP and AHP to see the Spitzers. [Letter from Spitzer to LP February 18, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.9]
Letter from LP to Elis Sundstrom RE: Comments on Sundtrom's ideas about the mechanism of action of catalysts. Suggests that Sundstrom read General Chemistry and The Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Note from Sundstrom to LP February 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from LP to Katsuya Inouye, Resources Research Institute, RE: Explains that he would not recommend Inouye for a position to work at Caltech. [Letter from Inouye to LP February 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1956), #185.17]
Letter from LP to Michael Swann, Ashworth Laboratory, University of Edinburgh, RE: Declines the invitation to speak before the University of Edinburgh's Departmental Colloquium. [Letter from Swann to LP February 13, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from LP to Richard L. Brookbank, Northwest College Lectures and Concerts Association, RE: Declines the invitation to take a lecture tour to the colleges in the Association due to previous commitments. [Letter from Brookbank to LP February 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1956), #287.23]
Letter from LP to William Moffitt, Harvard University, RE: Invites Moffitt to have dinner with him and AHP while visiting Caltech in March. [Letter from Hughes to Moffitt February 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from Roger F. Wheeler to LP RE: Encloses an article concerning an issue of periodic classification mentioned in LP's General Chemistry. Discusses the issue of periodic classification. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
Letter from Rollie J. Myers, University of California Berkeley, to LP RE: Declines LP's invitation to come to Caltech as an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry. [Letters from LP to Myers February 13, 1956, March 1, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Magazine Article: "Linus Pauling of Caltech...," [re: George A. Miller Lecture] Chemical and Engineering News, February 27, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: LP Scrapbooks, 1951-1955: Box #6.006, Folder #6.168]
Proposal Review for Proposal No. B-3407 RE: LP recommends approval. [Letter from Consolazio to LP February 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989: Box #14.029, Folder #29.3]
Proposal Review for Proposal No. N-98 RE: Recommends approval of the proposal. [Letter from Brownson to LP February 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989: Box #14.029, Folder #29.3]
Proposal Review for Proposal No. P-2262 RE: LP feels skeptical about the proposal. [Letter from Zwolinski to LP February 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989: Box #14.029, Folder #29.3]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Telegram from Dr. E.B. Chain, F.R.S., Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy, to LP RE: Wonders if the proposed date, June 6, is acceptable for the Avogadro lecture. [Letter from Chain to LP February 4, 1956, Telegram from LP to Chain March 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.25]

February 28

Check from AHP to Julia Pauling for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
Letter from LP to Arthur Galston, Yale University, RE: Thanks for the letter and comic strip. LP and AHP expect to be in New Haven on April 21st to give a talk on "Science and Freedom" for the Yale Law School Forum. [Note from Galston to LP February 4, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from LP to G. R. Mohan RE: States that he cannot help in matters regarding scholarships but suggests that Mohan contact Prof. Katchalsky. Discusses fellowship and assistantship opportunities at Caltech. [Letter from Mohan to LP February 11, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
Letter from LP to H. J. Emeleus, University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge, RE: Explains that D. E. MacDuffie would be a satisfactory choice for a research student in the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry. Says that MacDuffie is hardworking and serious if not brilliant. [Letter from Emeleus to LP February 22, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1956), #112.22]
Letter from LP to Pauline Geballe RE: Sends a copy of his Nobel Address and says he is sorry Mr. Greene could not have received a copy. Briefly tells Geballe about his wife and four children. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Letter from Leo A. Shinn, Office of Naval Research, to LP and Dr. Robert B. Corey RE: Informs them that the proposal to expand their research on "The Structure of Proteins and Related Substances" is under consideration and they should receive more information in about two or three months. Notice of Research Project: "The Structure and Properties of Proteins and Synthetic Polypeptides," submitted by LP to the Bio-Sciences Information Exchange. [Letter from LP to Shinn March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Memoranda, Notes and Assorted Materials re: "The Structure and Properties of Proteins and Synthetic Polypeptides," Contract Nonr 220(05) (Chemistry 32), 1951-1963: Box #14.032, Folder #32.2]
Letter from Mary E. Tincovich, Librarian, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, to LP RE: Dr. Henry W. Brosin has informed Tincovich that LP will deliver a talk at the 1956 American Psychiatric Association Convention. Does not have many of LP's printed studies since their library is mainly psychiatric. Requests reprints of LP's publications and a bibliography of LP's studies. [Letter from LP to Tincovich March 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.20]
Letter from Robert B. Fischer, Indiana University, to LP RE: Regrets that LP will be unable to lecture at the Summer Institute for College Teachers of Chemistry. States that Dr. William Lipscomb will lecture in his place. [Letter from LP to Fischer February 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1956), #128.21]
Letter from Ruth C. Christman, Interscience Publishers Inc., to LP RE: Instructs LP to check enclosed proofs on the manuscript of his chapter in Perspectives in Organic Chemistry. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1956), #185.17]
Memo from LP to Harrison Brown, cc: Professor Yost, RE: Requests that Brown continue to teach a course in radiochemistry during the third term of the year. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Brown, Harrison), #32.4]
Memo from LP to Neilen Hultgren RE: Requests that Hultgren research information regarding free energy formation of nitrous oxide for H. L. Stewart. Includes Heutgren's findings, "Thermodynamic Functions of N2O." [Letter from LP to Stewart March 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Note from Robert Gordon to LP RE: Gordon, an eighth-grade student is doing a job survey in the field of radiochemistry and asks LP for information regarding salary, college courses, job opportunities, and any simplified literature. [Letter from Executive Secretary to Gordon March 29, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975: Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]

February 29

Contract Status Report: Contract N6onr-24423, Chemistry 25, Acct. 23607, Directors of Research: LP and Dr. Verner Schomaker, February 29, 1956. [Filed under LP Science: Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962: Box #14.031, Folder #31.8]
Itinerary: Feb 29th through March 12th [ ] here [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from LP to Gerard Piel, Scientific American, RE: Suggests corrections to be made in his article which is to be included in the Scientific American book on chemistry. [Letter from Piel to LP February 23, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Scientific American, 1948-1995), #374.9]
Letter from LP to Zenaida V. de los Santos, student at St. Scholastica's College, RE: Says he has no information dealing with Arrhenius' theory of electrolytic dissociation. Encloses a copy of his paper on acid strengths. [Letter from V. de los Santos to LP February 21, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
Letter from Professor A.N. Campbell, Chemistry Dept., University of Manitoba, to LP RE: Heard from Frank White that LP will be in Winnipeg for three days around March 29. Invites LP to speak to the Honors and research students of the Chemistry Club on March 29 at 1:30 PM. Invites LP to spend the rest of the afternoon in the Department. [Letter from LP to Campbell March 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.9]
Letter from Professor K.T. Rogers, Zoology Dept., Oberlin College, to LP RE: October 23-25 would be extremely bad for attendance at the lectures, as it is the sixth week of classes, so student performance reports must be turned in. Suggests instead the week of October 15-19. [Letter from LP to Rogers February 13, 1956, Letter from LP to Rogers March 7, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.33]
Memo from Edgar Eichhorn to LP RE: Encloses a memo on recent work done on vitamin A. Responds to George Wald's comments regarding the investigation of isomers. [Letter from Wald to LP February 14, 1956, Letter from LP to Wald March 6, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Wald, George), #431.1]
Proposed Itinerary: University of Utah, Salt Lake City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder #2.1]
Telegram from Polish Radio Warsaw to LP RE: Requesting responses from outstanding personalities regarding outlook for nuclear disarmament. Provides questions to answer. [Letter from LP to Polish Radio Warsaw March 2, 1956] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1956a.1]