Letter from Linus Pauling to Walter Thorson Page 1. March 6, 1957
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Activity Listings

  • Check from AHP to Chamber Music Society for $9.60. [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 Harry Levitt M.D. for $12.00. [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 L. Sharon for $23.18. [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 $28.60. [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 Safeway Stores for $10.84. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
  • Letter from Alexander Rich, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare of the National Institute of Health, to LP RE: Encloses notes on the structure of the synthetic polyribonucleotides. Discusses the work they have done concerning polyadenylic acid and polyuridylic acid, and its similarities to DNA. Discusses the speculation of DNA polymerizing a single stranded RNA molecule. Tells LP about his work on collagen and that he and Francis Crick are in the process of writing a paper on their collagen work. Tells LP that he would like the discuss the collagen problem with him in greater detail. [Letter from LP to Rich, March 12, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Individual Correspondence, Reynolds-Riley), #329.3]
  • Letter from Andres Goth, Alpha Omega Delta, RE: Writes that he is sure the topic of "Molecular Medicine" will be very appropriate and interesting for the lecture at the Alpha Omega Alpha banquet and that it is customary for the speaker and member to wear dinner jackets. [Letter from LP to Goth February 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.20]
  • Letter from Beatrice Wulf to The National Bank of Commerce of Houston RE: Notifies them that she has been returning mail that they have sent to Charles M. Steese, Jr over the past year because he died in April of 1956. Provides the address for his father and requests that the bank no longer send mail to CIT for Mr. Steese. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1957), #288.1]
  • Letter from LP to James A. Shannon, National Institutes of Health, RE: Writes that Wednesday, May 1 will be satisfactory for his lecture and he looks forward to seeing Shannon. [Letter from LP to Shannon February 7, 1957, Letter from Shannon to LP March 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.17]
  • Letter from LP to Paul H. Emmett, Johns Hopkins University, RE: Writes that he is very embarrassed to admit that he forgot about a conference on hemoglobin being conducted by the National Research Council on May 3, which he agreed to attend. Asks if it would be alright if they changed the schedule around a little bit, and that he would visit with people in the Johns Hopkins laboratory on May 4. [Letter from LP to Emmett March 6, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.18]
  • Letter from Margaret M. Riva to Dr. Richard W. Lippman RE: Thanks Lippman for his reply and his interest in her children's problems. She cannot provide much information to shed light on their problems but does include a letter from Dr. George Jervais. This letter provides results from certain tests and Jervais guesses that the children are suffering from some kind of unknown biochemical abnormality. [Letters from Lippman to Riva February 21, 1957, March 11, 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 Margaret M. Riva to LP RE: Thanks LP for referring her letter about her three retarded sons to Dr. Lippman. Hopes that LP and his associates will be able to find an answer that explains her problem. [Letter from LP to Riva February 7, 1957, Lippman to Riva February 21, 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 Mrs. Sam D. Blakely to LP RE: Asks LP if her daughter, who has three short fingers and a seizure tendency, will pass on the genes to her children. Provides possibilities for why her daughter has these conditions because she does not think they are genetic. [Letter from LP to Blakely March 12, 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 Robert D. Wolf to LP RE: Asks LP how the biochemical cause of mental illness was related to alcoholics. [Letter from LP to Wolf April 15, 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]
  • Memo from Lowell Peterson to Beatrice Wulf RE: Requests price information for either 200 or 300 reprints of one of LP and Robert Corey's articles, "Specific Hydrogen Bond Formation..." [Note on prices 3/19/57] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]
  • Note form Mrs. Harry A. Lunblad to LP RE: Lundblad spoke to her son's doctor, Dr. Fish, who said that her son had phenylpyruvic acid oligophrenia. Dr. Fish also said that he thought LP's research only benefitted newborn babies. Asks LP for any help he can offer. [Letters from LP to Lundblad February 15, 1957, March 13, 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]