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

Travel: San Francisco, CA

Activity Listings

  • Check from AHP to Arletta Townsend for $410.44. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
  • Letter from C. Lalor Burdick, Director, The Lalor Foundation to LP RE: Notifies him of awards that the foundation is giving out in the summer of 1958 to young college and university staff members, asks him to alert any qualified people about the awards so that they can apply. Encloses brochure listing the awards and past winners. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Lalor Foundation, 1956-1957, 1979), #219.1]
  • Letter from H.J. Muller to Dr. Leo Szilard, The Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, RE: Tells Szilard his opinion that the communist countries, and Russia and India would not be likely to give money to support an institute located outside of their countries. Suggests that they would be more likely to get money from the Scandinavian countries, England, France, Japan, or Israel. Yet, says that he thinks there are other possibilities that they should explore in the U.S. to raise funds. Also points out that it will be difficult for American scientists to agree to work almost permanently outside of North America. [Letter from Szilard to Muller, October 2, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Szilard, Leo: Report Correspondence), Box #372, Folder #372.1]
  • Letter from Herschel W. Nisonger, Director, American Association on Mental Deficiency to LP RE: Explains that many committee members feel that it would be best to have a two-day meeting with the entire group. Recommends dates in the second half of January for those meetings to take place. Requests that he inform them when of those dates would be best for him. Two handwritten notes in right margin, one asking LP if it is ok to attach the fee and the other stating: "ret'd saying no date possible." [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1957), #288.1]
  • Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Abe F. Levy, Chairman, Forum Committee of the Santa Monica Unitarian Community Church RE: Declines his invitation to speak at one of their forums because he has already agreed to more speaking engagements than "he should have." [Letter from Mr. Levy to LP October 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1957), #231.3]
  • Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Alfred Knudson, MD, Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, City of Hope Medical Center RE: Notifies him that LP won't be present at the early part of the Saturday meeting but will be there before the time of his talk and at the Sunday afternoon session. [Letter from Dr. Knudson to LP September 27, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (City of Hope Medical Center, 1955-9158), #70.9]
  • Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Dr. Oliver P. Jones, The University of Buffalo School of Medicine RE: Notifies him that Dr. Harvey Itano would be able to answer his question better so he has already forwarded his letter to Dr. Itano. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1957), #192.23]
  • Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Dr. Wilson B. Paul, Director, Lecture-Concert Series, Michigan State University RE: Thanks him for his invitation but declines because his schedule for the next few months is already very full. [Letter from Dr. Paul to LP September 19, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]
  • Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to Professor R.E.S. Dodd, University of Durham RE: Informs him that he has not yet published his work on the structure of water. [Letter from Professor Dodd to LP September 21, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1957), #98.22]
  • Letter from LP to Burr Jamison RE: Notifies him that it is mostly understood that protons, neutrons, and electrons have momentum that is similar to a gyroscope. States that his ideas are to vague for much discussion and would need to be quantitative for experiments to be conducted on them. [Letter from Mr. Jamison to LP June 29, 1957, Letter from Mr. Jamison to LP July 1, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1957), #192.23]
  • Letter from LP to Dorothy S. Helm RE: Notifies her that the ideas she has are not developed enough to be theories. Suggests some books to read so that she can look into these topics more. [Letter from Mrs. Helm to LP July 11, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1957), #167.2]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. A.A. Gurwitsch, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Medical Science, Moscow RE: Thanks him for the material sent about mitogenetic radiation and other topics covered in their conversation at the symposium. Comments that although he read all of the material he still does not have enough of an understanding of the topics, or the experiments done in support of them, to make him change his position. [Letter from Dr. Gurwitsch to LP August 27, 1957, Letter from Dr. Gurwitsch to LP October 23, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Gurwitsch, A.A., Correspondence, 1957), #138.1]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Elmer C. Rigby RE: Tells Rigby that the problem he addressed is a difficult one and that he does not have any good ideas concerning it. [Letter from Rigby to LP, July 13, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1955-1959), #341.3]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Ralph Pressman RE: Explains he is too busy and does not have much confidence in psychic phenomena to put much time into the work he mentioned in his letter. [Letter from Dr. Pressman to LP September 14, 1957, Letter from Dr. Pressman to LP October 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]
  • Letter from LP to Frank Toole, RE: LP tells Toole not to worry about the signatures for the Appeal and that several Canadian scientists have already signed the appeal. LP and AHP look forward to seeing Toole again. [Toole's letter September 26, 1957] [Filed under LP Peace: (An Appeal by Scientists to the Governments and People of the World), Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]
  • Letter from LP to George Tarjan, Pacific State Hospital, RE: Thanks for his letter and accepts with pleasure the reappointment as Research Consultant and states his pleasure to work with them the past year. [Letter from George Tarjan to LP June 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.089, Folder #89.3]
  • Letter from LP to Howard Bierman, MD, Medical & Scientific Director, City of Hope Medical Center RE: Thanks him for the letter of gratitude for LP's service to the Medical Center as well as for the Award for Meritorious Service and expresses sorrow that his schedule is to busy to allow him to serve on the Research Advisory Committee any more. [Letter from Dr. Bierman to LP June 24, 1957, Letter from Mrs. Wulf to Dr. Bierman July 8, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (City of Hope Medical Center, 1955-9158), #70.9]
  • Letter from LP to James Aronson, Editor, National Guardian RE: Declines his invitation to the magazine's annual banquet, commenting that with the amount of work he has to do it would be impossible to be able to fit a trip to the east into his schedule. [Letter from Mr. Aronson September 30, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (National Guardian, 1950, 1957-1965, 1967), #283.6]
  • Letter from LP to Linus Pauling, Jr. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.038, Folder #38.1]
    4 October 1957

    Dr. Linus Pauling Jr.

    3909 Round Top Drive

    Honolulu, T.H.

    Dear Linie:

    Mama and I, as we drove home from the ranch where we have been ten days, a couple of days ago talked about the pleasure that we had in seeing you again and having you present at Linda's wedding. We were sorry that Anita could not have been there too.

    While we were at the ranch I put in a couple of days digging out the spring (a local boy was working for us, and did most of the work), and then putting in a brick and concrete water box in place of the old wooden water box. The old box had got almost completely filled with roots from the Monterey cypresses. We are going to try to keep the roots out of the new box. I was interested to see that the spring consists of a hole, about 4 inches in diameter, that goes back in a stratum of blue clay. I measured the flow of water, and found it to be about 2000 gallons per day.

    I enclose herewith a copy of Research Reviews of the Office of Naval Research, containing an article on the flying sailboat, that you might be interested in. I remember that in an earlier issue there was a report on a flying motorboat, but I no longer have this issue.

    The research program on the possibility of causing a patient or animal to manufacture missing enzymes by injecting nucleic acid is still under discussion. Dr. Tarjan seems to be very much interested in trying it out. I should like to see some animal work done, but I have not yet discovered in the literature a description of satisfactory inborn errors of metabolism in animals. Dr. Lippman has suggested that we might make use of albino mice, inasmuch as the manufacture of pigment is determined by a single enzyme, missing in the albinos, and that nucleic acid from pigmented mice-or, rather, rats, with which we are more experienced-might lead to pigmentation. I think that we shall try this out, but in the meantime I am continuing to look for reported inborn errors in metabolism in animals. We have not yet decided about trying nucleic acid injections on phenylketonuric or galactosemic patients.

    Much love from

    Linus Pauling:W

  • Letter from LP to Professor F.J. Reithel, Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oregon, RE: Discusses his opinion of Dr. Bernhard as a chemist. Tells Reithel that is is difficult for him to predict Bernard's potential as a creative scientist, but tells Reithel that he would be tempted to take a chance on him. [Letter from Reithel to LP, June 21, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R:Correspondence, 1955-1959), #341.3]
  • Letter from LP to Professor M. Kent Wilson, Department of Chemistry at Tufts University, RE: Says that he thinks it is fine that they have made a change in their chemistry curriculum that is similar to the Brown plan. Explains the changes that CIT made a year ago to its undergraduate curriculum in chemistry. Explains that the thinks the advantage to the curriculum at CIT is that laboratory techniques are taught in connection with the quantitative work in the freshman year, whereas with the Brown plan the laboratory techniques would be taught in connection with organic chemistry. Tells Wilson that Professor Swift is planning to visit Wilson sometime that winter and that he has a Guggenheim Fellowship under which he is studying the teaching of chemistry and analytical chemistry in the U.S. [Letter from Wilson to LP July 1, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), Box #444, Folder #444.5]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Walter S. Koski, Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University RE: Encloses copies of the reprints that he took most of his lectures from and provides information about another source, of which he doesn't have a reprint. [Letter from Professor Koski to LP June 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1957), #201.1]
  • Letter from LP to Robert W. McEwen, Hamilton College, RE: Writes that McEwen's proposed schedule is satisfactory, but mentions that he had hoped to talk to students and faculty members that weren't primarily interested in science, because he believes many people are sadly ignorant of the scientific aspects of our culture. [Letter from McEwen to LP September 19, 1957, Letter from McEwen to LP October 29, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s2.7]
  • Letter from LP to W.B. Castle, MD, Boston City Hospital RE: Gives a good recommendation for David Allen, who was working in the Cal Tech labs on amino acid composition in normal hemoglobin and phenylketonuria hemoglobin as well as the separation of hemoglobin into fractions, and is now going back to the Hospital. [Letter from Dr. Castle to LP July 8, 1957, Letter from Dr. Castle to LP October 10, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1957) #74.25]
  • Letter from LP, to Mrs. Harry W. Basch RE: Answers her letter about more information on his work with Sickle Cell Anemia and mental disease by sending her some of his papers on the subject. [Letter from Mrs. Basch to LP July 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
  • Letter from Louis Chantal, Founder and Director General, L'Universite Á L'Usine, to LP RE: Informs him that his article was translated into French and they were all very impressed by it. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1957), #74.25]
  • Letter from Miriam F. Bennett, Chairman, Committee on the Symposium, Sweet Briar College, to LP RE: Extends once again an invitation to be the general coordinator of the college's upcoming symposium as well as notifies LP of the theme and which scientists have agreed to come and speak. [Letter from Professor Bennett to LP May 27, 1957, Letter from LP to Professor Bennett June 11, 1957, Letter from LP to Professor Bennett October 8, 1957, Letter from Professor Bennett to LP October 11, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
  • Letter from Professor Ralph W. Lewis, Michigan State University to LP RE: Asks questions about some of his views on Schrödinger's article What is Life, as well as some questions about his statements in Quantum Theory and Chemistry. States he is asking these questions in regards to biological laws and theories for future biological research. [Letter from LP to Professor Lewis October 9, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1957), #231.3]
  • Letter from T.R. Robie, M.D., Chairman of the Private Practice Section of the A.P.A. 1958 Meeting, to LP RE: Informs LP that the program committee of the A.P.A. desires a short abstract of his paper with the proposed title (Biochemical Factors in Mental Disease. Handwritten note in the top right hand corner. [Letter from LP to Robie, October 1, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R:Correspondence, 1955-1959), #341.3]
  • Manuscript of LP's discussion on radiation during the American Cancer Society's annual meeting in San Francisco. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s2.5]
  • Memo from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to R.L. Sinsheimer RE: Comments they can talk about DNA any time. Notifies him that Crick has written him back and agrees with the idea of three hydrogen bonds. [Memo from LP to Mr. Sinsheimer September 13, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
  • Memo from LP to Dr. Richard W. Lippman RE: Suggests reading an article about inserting spigots in blood vessels. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Lippman, Richard W., 1951-1961, 1980, 1982), #217.5]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Scientists Argue Radiation's Effect, but Agree on World H-Test Ban," San Francisco News, October 4, 1957. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.51]
  • Note from P.C. Carman to LP RE: Thanks him for the chance to visit Cal Tech and learn about his department. Requests he give some South African stamps, which he encloses, to a professor at Cal Tech who requested them for his children. Handwritten note in bottom left margin states: "Passed on." [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1957), #74.25]