Letter from Linus Pauling to Richard W. Lippman. February 4, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to A.C. Vroman for $13.52. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from AHP to Adohr Milk Farms for $8.57. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from AHP to Artistic Quilt Company for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Check from AHP to C.E. Ward Company for $5.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Check from AHP to Coast Disposal Company for $4.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Check from AHP to Crown City Mattress Company for $32.76. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from AHP to Friends Committee on Legislation for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from AHP to Poppy Cleaners and Dryers for $15.45. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from AHP to The Wilderness Society for $2.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Letter from Beatrice J. Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Dora E. Young, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, RE: Encloses information about LP expenses for his trip to New York. [Letter from Young to Wulf January 31, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation—Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence 1954-1959: Box #15.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. Albert E. Sobel, Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, RE: Notifies that she has sent LP's biography, but because he has only recently started researching mental health, it is not included in the sketch. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Sobel, Albert), #365.10]
• Letter from Cass Canfield to LP RE: Tells LP that he has received several responses in favor of the proposal for the two institutes. Asks LP if he would be able to attend a meeting for a few days in Pasadena within the next month. Asks LP to let him know what time would be convenient for him. [Letter from LP to Canfield February 12, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Szilard, Leo: Report Correspondence), Box #372, Folder #372.1]
• Letter from E.C. Watson, Acting President, Caltech, to Professor Gilbert J. Stork, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, cc: LP, RE: Offers him the position as an organic chemist at Caltech, outlines policies of the Institute regarding retirement funds and insurance, and requests that he notify them of whether he is going to accept or not. [Letter from LP to Stork January 11, 1957, Letter from Stork to LP February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Stork, Gilbert), #369.4]
• Letter from Harrison Brown to Mr. Cass Canfield, Harper & Brothers Publishers, cc: Leo Szilard and LP, RE: Explains that he has spoken with Szilard regarding the proposed institutes. Says that he liked the idea but can foresee a number of difficulties and that he would be able to arrange facilities for a meeting at Caltech to further discuss the matter. Suggests that the meeting be on March 1 and 2 or the weekend of March 8. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Szilard, Leo: Report Correspondence), Box #372, Folder #372.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. C.J. Lapp, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, RE: Sends the departmental ordering of 16 applicants (in rated order) for National Science Foundation Fellowships from the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology. [Letters from Lapp to LP January 28, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. C.L. Agre, Chairman, Chemistry Department, St. Olaf College, RE: In answer to Dr. Agre's letter, says that he will meet with the two chemistry students visiting from St. Olaf College. [Letter from Agre to LP January 30, 1957, Note from LP to Hultgren February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1957), #12.23]
• Letter from LP to Dr. James J. Waring, Colorado Foundation for Research in Tuberculosis, RE: Mentions the dinner that Waring has planned in his honor on Wednesday and seeks to clarify if AHP is invited as well. [Letter from LP to Reeve January 18, 1957, Note from Chapin to LP March 26, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.15]
• Letter from LP to Dr. John C. Sowden, Acting Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Washington University, RE: Recommends Lindsay Helmholz for a promotion to professor. States his teaching abilities are high and his research is good and interesting, and that he is a good person. [Letter from Sowden to LP January 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Helmholz, Lindsay, 1937-1939, 1941, 1947-1948, 1952, 1956-1958, 1961, 1964, 1978), #156.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Robert C. Brasted, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, RE: Informs that he has a policy of not writing secondary letters because he feels that the nominating committee does not consider them of great value. [Letter from Brasted to LP January 31, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. William S. Wilson, Department of Chemistry, College of Alaska, RE: Informs that he has high opinion of Claus and that he would like to succeed in getting Claus to come help him in Alaska. Says he will not be able to attend a Science Institute for the teacher of the Territory that summer. Says that he might be able to get movies of his lectures that were suggested by the NSF that were filmed for Science Institutes that summer. Says that he is pleased that Wilson is optimistic about the freshman course and that the 2nd edition of College Chemistry seems to be pretty popular. [Note from Wilson to LP January 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), Box #444, Folder #444.5]
• Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Memorial Foundation, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept the invitation to be on the Committee of Fellows. [Letters from Moe to LP January 30, 1957, February 8, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.5]
• Letter from LP to J. Hartley Murray, President, Winter Night Club, RE: Requests a lantern to be able to show slides during his speech, notifies him that they will be arriving a day earlier and that he plans to visit the Colorado College . [Memo from LP to Pino February 5, 1957, Letter from Pino to LP February 8, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.14]
• Letter from LP to Jose Garcia Palad RE: Applauds him for trying to use his chemical knowledge to use his country's resources to help raise the standard of living in the Philippines and suggests that he take a job at a firm so that he can provide for himself but do research on the side. Sends a copy of College Chemistry in a hopes that there might be something in it that can help him in his endeavor. [Letter from Palad to LP January 26, 1957, Note from Palad to LP March 31, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Dale Beals [Virginia L.] RE: Sys he is pleased to learn of Jeffrey's progress and hopes that she will continue to keep him informed of his progress. LP will let her know if he learns about any new discovery. [Note from Beals to LP January 30, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1956: Box #11.089, Folder 89.7]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.043, Folder #43.1]

  5 February 1957

  Mr. Peter Pauling

  Flat 24, Whitehall Lodge Pages Lane,

  Maswell Hill London N. 10, England

  Dear Peter:

  I am glad to learn about your new flat. I hope that it turns out to be thoroughly satisfactory.

  I have continued to work on the water problem, and I hope that I can settle down this afternoon to writing a preliminary draft of the paper - I think that almost everything that can be done effectively at the present time on the problem has been done. I have formulated another face-centered close-packed structure of dodecahedra with density 1.00, and with a number of contacts at 3.6 Å. It involves some deformation of the dodecahedra, probably not un-reasonably large. I shall send you a copy of the rough draft of the paper when it is ready, in order that you may send comments and advice.

  I should like to have you buy a microscope for me, of the sort discussed in your letter. I have thought for some time that I should have a microscope of my own, for use in some phases of my work, later on, and I am willing to have you get one now, and to use it during the remainder of your stay in England. I enclose my check for $300. Please let me know the exact cost of the microscope, after you have bought it.

  Mama and I spent four days at Deer Flat Ranch a couple of weeks ago. We are planning to go up again in another week and to stay for about ten days.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Professor A.E. Stearn, Chairman, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, RE: Declines his invitation because he will be in Europe in the summer but notifies that he is planning on making three National Science Foundation sponsored films of his lectures concerning valence and electronic structures of molecules. [Letter from Stearn to LP January 31, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Letter from LP to Roger W. Straus and Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: Says he is pleased to learn that the Board of Trustees will be discussing this issue but he declines the invitation to be involved due to illness. Hopes he can help even though he will be unable to serve on the Committee of Fellows. [Letter from Straus and Moe to LP January 30, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.5]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman & Co. RE: Requests that a copy of College Chemistry be sent to Jose Garcia Palad. [Filed under LP Books: 1955b.3]
• Letter from LP, to Ralph W. Burhoe, Secretary, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, RE: Thanks him for his invitation to be part of a meeting on the relationship between science and religion but declines due to a busy schedule. [Letter from Burhoe January 30, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
• Letter from Paul H. Emmett, Johns Hopkins University, to LP RE: Asks if LP would be willing to present a couple of lectures during April or May for Johns Hopkins University. [Letter from LP to Emmett February 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.18]
• Letter from Professor Arthur Stoll to LP RE: Thanks LP for the contribution he made to the jubilee volume that was given to him to commemorate his 70th birthday. Comments that it was the best gift he could have gotten and that he believes it will not only be good for him to read but for other scientists because of the research information it contains. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Letter from Professor Gilbert Stork, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, to LP RE: Thanks him for the job offer and his confidence in him but declines. [Letter from Watson to Stork February 5, 1957, Letter from LP to Stork February 11, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Stork, Gilbert), #369.4]
• Memo from LP to Dean Lewis N. Pino, Assistant Dean, Colorado College, RE: "I am willing to speak 11 AM Tuesday." [Telegram from Pino February 4, 1957, Letter from LP to Murray February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.14]
• Note form Mrs. and Mr. Harry A. Lunblad to California School of Technology RE: Explains the condition of her son who has been diagnosed as having been born with a protein deficiency. Asks for any information on the progress of their work studying mental deficiencies. [Letter from LP to Lundblad February 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1966: Box #11.089, Folder #89.8]
• Note from LP to Neilen Hultgren RE: Asks him to spend time showing the lab to two students from St. Olaf College. [Letter from Agre to LP January 30, 1957, Letter from LP to Agre February 5, 1927] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1957), #12.23]
• Research Notebook of LP RE: A suggestion for a structure with 41 H20 molecules per simple cubic unit that is capable of easy distortion p. 101. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 20R]