Activity Listings
- Letter from Dr. Nathan O. Kaplan, McCollum-Pratt Institute, The Johns Hopkins University to LP RE: Informs him that he was just named the head of the new biochemistry department at Brandeis University. Notifies him that they are putting an advisory committee together to help with the new department. Invites him to join the committee. [Letter from LP to Dr. Kaplan March 25, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Kaplan, Nathan O., 1957, 1964-1965, 1969, 1977), #197.5]
- Letter from Edward Weeks, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, to LP, RE: Tells LP that Hartley Howe, who is helping him to prepare an Atlantic Supplement on Science and Industry, says there is a chance that they could get LP to write an article of about 4000 words for the Supplement on his studies on the molecular origins of disease and mental illness. Tells LP that they would pay him $500 and would like the manuscript before the end of May. [Letter from LP to Weeks, April 16, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), Box #444, Folder #444.5]
- Letter from H.E. Fiehler, Chairman, Speakers Committee, Unitarian Fellowship, Columbia, Missouri, to LP RE: Invites him to speak to the Fellowship when he comes to visit Washington University in St. Louis in May, and suggests which flight he take so that he would have a stopover in Columbia and could come visit during that time. [Letter from LP to Mr. Fiehler March 28, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1957), #129.1]
- Letter from Ida Morton to LP, RE: Morton would like to verify with LP is it is that 5 radiation units a year is how much people are exposed to and if the decrease in life expectancy is 2 years for each 1 unit. Her mother, who heard LP speak at the Pasadena Baptist Church is very interested in this matter. Also if possible Morton would like to have a copy of this talk. [LP's reply March 25, 1957] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials, re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1954-1961), Box #7.007, Folder #7.1]
- Letter from J. Salvinien, Faculté des Sciences de Montpellier, to LP RE: Written in French. Asks LP to deliver a lecture on abnormal human hemoglobin molecules in relation to disease at the university in Montpellier sometime during the second half of June. [Letter from Salvinien to LP March 5, 1957, Letter from LP to Salvinien April 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.24]
- Letter from Kurt Jacoby, Academic Press Inc to Beatrice Wulf RE: Grants permission to reprint an article by LP and Robert Corey that originally appeared in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]
- Newspaper clipping: "Clues Show Chemical Upset Could Cause Mental Illness" printed in The Sacramento Union. [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.089, Folder #89.3]
- Note from Llewellyn James to LP RE: Sends a copy of the book The Shackles of the Supernatural written by William J. Fielding. States it is an interesting book and that he thinks LP will enjoy it. [Letter from LP to Mr. James April 1, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1957), #192.23]
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