Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to Roess Market for $12.46. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
- Letter from Georg E. Cronheim, Ph.D., Director, Biological Research, Riker Laboratories, to LP RE: Invites him to speak on the topic of the future of American science at the Western Section of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association's annual meeting in February of 1958. [Letter from LP to Dr. Cronheim December 6, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1957), #74.25]
- Letter from Keller Breland, Animal Behavior Enterprises, to LP RE: Requests LP to look at a theory that he had developed from some interesting events but he and his partners wanted to know what scientists in the field, including LP, had to say about it before publishing it on a broad basis. [Letter from LP to Mr. Breland December 12, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
- Letter from LP to David Ehrenfeld. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence) #112.24]
4 December 1957
Mr. David Ehrenfeld
1061 Eugene Drive
Fullerton, California
Dear Mr. Ehrenfeld:
The question that you raise in your letter of 1 December is indeed an interesting one.
I have tried to decide what acts should be considered moral and what immoral. This question is, as I understand it, the basis of the theory of values.
I do not think that I take the question of survival of a society or survival of the human race as a criterion. I have decided to use the causing or prevention of human suffering (even, but in a smaller degree, animal suffering) as a criterion. I say that acts are immoral if they increase the amount of human suffering.
I must admit that I have not tried to develop a theory of values on this basis that is rigorous and logical. I have never been greatly interested in questions of rigor, in definition or proof.
With best regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling:w
- Letter from LP to Mr. Richard Thruelsen, The Saturday Evening POST, RE: Asks if he and other editors of the Saturday Evening POST would consider the possibility of publishing an article by LP explaining the attitude of scientists toward nuclear weapons and war. Reminds Thruelsen that he mentioned that he had written a similar article for the Ladies Home Journal, but that it had not been found acceptable. Tells Thruelsen that his appeal to stop the bomb tests has been signed by 2000 American scientists, 24 Nobel Laureates, 200 leading Russian scientists, and hundreds of other scientists from various countries around the world, and the he plans to send a statement to the U.N. and make a release in newspapers in January. Tells Thruelsen that his article would complement the news release and explains what the article would include. [Letter from Thruelsen to LP, December 23, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), Box #411, Folder #411.2]
- Letter from LP to Mr. Richard Thruelsen, The Saturday Evening POST, RE: Says that he is interested in the series of articles about the activities of contemporary scientists and scholars. Suggests that he writes about the nature of molecular disease and says that he plans to discuss the disease that results from having abnormal hemoglobin molecules and other molecular diseases resulting from the manufacture of abnormal enzymes. Says that he believes sickle-cell anemia will remain an interesting subject for years and that there has been considerable progress in the field since its recognition in 1949. [Letter from Thruelsen to LP, November 26, 1957] [Letter from Thruelsen to LP, December 23, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), Box #411, Folder #411.2]
- Letter from LP to Mr. W. H. Freeman, RE: Replies that it would be fine to see Freeman during the week of December 8th, but that he has meetings scheduled on the afternoons of the 11th and 12th and during the whole day on the 13th. Says that he is looking forward to seeing the final draft of Ted Geissman's manuscript. [Letter from Freeman to LP, December 2, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1941-1959.), Box #439, Folder #439.15]
- Letter from Members of the Department of General Education to LP RE: Encloses a list of signatures for the Appeal at the request of Prof. Taketani. Labeled number 124. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
- Letter from Paul Delahay, Louisiana State University, to LP. RE: Informs him that Dr. Richard Schögl has been invited as the keynote foreign speaker of the Symposium of Electrokinetic Phenomena. Informs him that he had expressed interest in visiting LP's laboratories. Would like to know if it is possible for Schögl to give a lecture at CIT. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1958) #98.23]
- Letter from Vaclav Svab to LP RE: Encloses a list of signatures, and apologizes for the delay. Handwritten notes on top right, "(43, 44 - not comm. sigs)" and "45." [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]
- Note from Dr. Hakon Lund, Professor of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark to LP RE: Suggests a different explanation for the Fahrenheit scale than the common one, which LP used in College Chemistry. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1957), #231.3]
- Statement of Insurance from The Home Insurance Company for AHP, RE: Insurance coverage for Patel Mink Cape Jacket for $1,540.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Insurance Documents, 1922-1992), Box #4.040, Folder #40.2]
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December
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