Letter from Linus Pauling to George Tarjan. October 1, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to Crellin Pauling for $200.00. [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 Hugh and Wade for $352.50. [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 Mr. Gustave Riherd for $25.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Group Report #4, October 1, 1957 - the Biochemical Basis of Mental Deficiency. [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.086, Folder #86.4]
• Letter from LP to Clara Hightower RE: Thanks for the letter and is sorry to say he hasn't written very much but send the one paper he has. States there will be great progress in the understanding of mental disease. [Note from Clara Hightower to LP September 16, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.13]
• Letter from LP to Claude P. Williams, RE: Thanks him for the letters and information that he sent about radioactive fallout and agrees with him that a lot more information is needed about the amount of radioactive fallout caused by bomb tests. Thanks him for his offer to support him in the subpoena by the Subcommittee on Internal Security, but explains that it was cancelled or at least postponed until some indefinite time in the future. Returns his documents and letters. [Letter from Claude P. Williams to LP June 7, 1957] [Letter from Claude P. Williams to California Institute for Technology September 19, 1957] [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2 Folder 2.030]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Lewis H. Kleinholz, Professor of Biology, Reed College RE: Notifies him that the papers given at the symposium on the origin of life are going to be published in some sort of volume. Suggests he write to the Academician Oparin (Academy of Sciences) in Moscow, who sponsored the symposium, in order to order a copy. [Letter from Dr. Kleinholz to LP September 23, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1957), #201.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Theodore R. Robie RE: Tells Robie that he will not be able to attend the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco in 1958, because he will be in South America during this time. [Letter from Robie to LP, September 14, 1957] [Letter from Robie to LP, October 4, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R:Correspondence, 1955-1959), #341.3]
• Letter from LP to George K. Estok, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Texas Technological College RE: Grants him permission to use his picture in the textbook he is writing for his class and states that the caption is fine. [Letter from Professor Estok to LP September 16, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1957), #112.23]
• Letter from LP to George Tarjan, Pacific State Hospital. [Letter from George Tarjan to LP September 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.089, Folder #89.3]

  1 October 1957

  Dr. George Tarjan

  Pacific State Hospital

  Box 100

  Pomona, California

  Dear George:

  I am pleased to have your letter of 18 September – I have been up at the ranch for some time, and have just seen the letter.

  I believe that it would be well worth while for us to think seriously about the possible use of injections of nucleic acid, as discussed in my letter of 9 September.

  Your first question is about possible immunological reactions. Benoit began his injections when the ducks were young, usually only one or two weeks old, but in some cases he continued the injections for several months. He did not report any immunological reactions. I do not think that any would be expected. There is no information in Landsteiner’s book about antigenic action of nucleic acid. I would not expect nucleic acid preparations to be antigenic, and I doubt that there is anything to worry about. The nucleic acid preparations should be free of protein. There has been much work done in recent years on the chemical methods to be used in preparing nucleic acid – the job would have to be carefully done.

  I do not know how much sperm would be needed. I doubt that there is any way to find out except by trial. Probably it would be worth while to begin some work on animals, to see whether injection of nucleic acid could control an inborn error of metabolism.

  I suggest that the four of us have a discussion one of these days about this proposed investigation.

  I think that Dr. Lippman has the agenda for the meeting on 10 October in good order. The results about senile plaque formations in brains of mongoloid patients, reported by Dr. Celeris, seem very interesting.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

  cc: Drs. Lippman and Wright

• Letter from LP to Gilbert Bloemeke RE: States that his arrangements in College Chemistry were only to show the electronic structure, not the actual relative positions in space. [Letter from Mr. Bloemeke to LP December 24, 1956, Letter from Mr. Bloemeke to LP January 6, 1957 Letter from Mr. Bloemeke to LP January 13, 1957, Letter from LP to Mr. Bloemeke January 21, 1957, Letter from Mr. Bloemeke to LP January 26, 1957, Letter from LP to Mr. Bloemeke February 4, 1957, Letter from Mr. Bloemeke to LP March 10, 1957, Letter from LP to Mr. Bloemeke March 14, 1957, Letter from Mr. Bloemeke to LP September 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
• Letter from LP to Herr Kreuzhage, Verlag Chemie RE: Explains that it is not up to him to decide who publishes translations of his books but he will let Cornell University Press know that the company is interested. Recommends that Dr. Helfferich be the one that actually does the translation and thanks him for the congratulatory note. [Letter from Herr Kreuzhage to LP September 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Books: 1960b5.2]
• Letter from LP to Jerry Donohue, Department of Chemistry, USC RE: Requests he reply to a letter to the editor appearing in the September issue of The Journal of Chemical Education, telling the writer that he was wrong to say that only simple cubic of three isometric cells is primitive. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Donohue, Jerry, 1948, 1954-1955, 1957-1958, 1961-1963, 1965-1968, 1972, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1982), #96.10]
• Letter from LP to Professor Melvin Calvin, UC Berkeley RE: Encloses a newspaper clipping LP thought Professor Calvin would like to see. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Calvin, Melvin, 1940, 1956-1959, 1981), #57.4]
• Letter from LP to Victor Reynolds, Cornell University Press to LP RE: Encloses a copy of the letter form Herr Kreuzhage about a German translation of the third edition of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Letter from Mr. Reynolds to LP October 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Books: 1960b5.2]
• Letter from LP to Walter M. Pollit, Hughes Aircraft Company, RE: Confirms invitation to speak on "Chemistry in Relation to Medicine" before the Southern California Section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering on April 10. Suggests that Pollit contact him a month before the meeting. [Letter from Walter M. Pollit to LP September 13, 1957, Letter from LP to Walter M. Pollit February 12, 1958] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1958s.11]
• Letter from Mrs. Albert Lewin, Committee Against Nuclear Explosions, to LP RE: Provides LP with the details of the Nov. 3 protest meeting, including a list of sponsors and how long the meeting is projected to last. [Letter from LP to Lewin September 30, 1957, Letter from LP to Lewin October 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s2.9]
• Letter from Mrs. Ileen E. Stewart, Editor, American Institute of Biological Sciences, to LP RE: Notifies LP that he will soon be receiving an author's copy of the Institute's symposium, "Molecular Structure and Biological Specificity" and that if he has any comments or criticism about the book it would be appreciated. Handwritten note at the bottom of the page by Mrs. Stewart states that because of delays, mostly at the printer, publishing the symposium has taken longer and she hopes sales won't be affected. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1956-1958, 1962), #10.3]
• Letter from Ralph L. Shriner, State University of Iowa to LP RE: the NSF group responsible for the Brussels Exposition would like to have a pencilled sketch of the material which he would like to appear in the Organic Chemistry Exhibit at Brussels. [Letter from Executive Secretary to Shriner February 17, 1957, Telegram from LP to Shriner October 18, 1957, Letter from LP to Shriner October 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder #30.6]
• Letter from Theodore T. Puck to LP RE: Explains that he still could not see his way to signing the Appeal. Says that he feels that focusing on the issue of fallout diverts attention from the need to end war altogether. Discusses talking with Szilard about the results of the "Pugwash" conference. [Filed under LP Safe Contents: Drawer 2, Folder 2.001]
• Letter from the Secretary to Mr. Schaefer to LP, RE: Informs LP that Schaefer is in the East at the present, but will be interested in receiving LP's September 30th letter containing his comments about the manuscript by Christiansen and Garrett and about the book by William Beck. [Letter from LP to Schaefer, September 30, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1941-1959.), Box #439, Folder #439.15]
• Memorandum from R.B. Corey to Ivan M. Ponedel, cc: LP RE: Encloses an application for the continuation of USPHS Grant H-2143(C7) from 10-1-58 to 9-30-59. Corey would like Green to sign it and forward it to the Division of Research Grants, NIH. Also encloses a "Notice of Research Project" and a list of publications. [Letter from Ponedel to Division of Research Grants October 2, 1957] [Filed under United States Public Health Service: "X-ray Diffraction Investigations of the Structure of Protein Molecules," grant RG 1987, [changed to H-2143 (Chemistry 150) 1948-1958), Box #14.041, Folder #41.4]
• Progress Report for a research grant done by Dorothea Starbuck Miller, Department of Zoology, University of Chicago. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]