Letter from Linus Pauling to Henry R. Luce June 5, 1958. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from LP to California Institute of Technology for $28.05. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Letter from Eunice Rosen to LP, RE: Rosen has contact the publishers of LP's book No More War about advertising in the Bulletin. Rosen thinks that it would be a good idea for LP to contact them as well. [Filed under LP Peace: (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 1948-1964), Box #3.016, Folder #16.4]
• Letter from Executive Secretary, to Shoreham Hotel. RE: Requests a reservation for LP for July 5 and 6. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1958) #167.3]
• Letter from Fred Okrand to Gentlemen, cc: LP RE: States that he represents LP and that he understands that Mr. Tom Duggin made some comments about LP on their station the previous evening. Asks for a copy of the statements made if that is correct. [Filed under LP Safe Contents: Drawer , Folder 2.006]
• Letter from J. N. Martin, Trans World Airlines, Inc., to LP. RE: Apologizes for the situation which occurred on their last trip with TWA. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1958) #257.3]
• Letter from LP to Alice Franklin Bryant, RE: Has written to General Hester that he will be glad to serve as member of Bryant's sponsoring committee. Would be pleased to come to Seattle; suggests the week of July 14. Has not yet received an invitation from Maude Richard to come to Tacoma. Would like to speak in public on the subject "The Compelling Necessity:No More War!" in Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane. Will be speaking on this subject in Boston on June 16, in New York on June 17, and in Pittsburgh on June 22. Requests that Bryant pass this information along to Maude Richard. The firm that published Bryant's book is also publishing one by LP. [Letter from Alice Franklin Bryant to LP May 6, 1958] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1958s.27]
• Letter from LP to Allan Sidd, Chairman, Meeting Committee, Greater Boston Sane Nuclear Policy, RE: LP and AHP will arrive on June 15 at 9:30 PM. Will be delivering a commencement address on Saturday so cannot arrive any earlier. Would not object to a press conference that evening, though it may be too late at night to hold one. Will try to send a press release soon. Accepts invitation to have dinner at 6:45 PM on Monday. [Letter from Allan Sidd to LP June 2, 1958] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1958s.23]
• Letter from LP to Charles R. Harmison. RE: Supports the nomination of Dr. John T. Edsall for the Nichols Medal. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1958) #167.3]
• Letter from LP to Edward K. Thompson, Managing Editor, Life. RE: Thanks him for sending the correspondence with Perry. Informs him that he feels strongly that the magazine did not behave properly by publishing the article by Teller and refusing his article. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Life) #219.3]
• Letter from LP to Henry R. Luce. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Luce, Henry R.) #218.8]

  5 June 1958

  Mr. Henry R. Luce

  9 Rockefeller Plaza

  New York, N.Y.

  Dear Mr. Luce:

  I am writing to ask if you would be kind enough to permit me to have a conversation with you at some time.

  A friend of mine has suggested to me that my feelings about the world, and especially about questions of morality and ethics, may be closely similar to yours (he also is acquainted with you). His statement is responsible for my having decided to write to you, to request that you consider the possibility of permitting me to discuss some matters with you.

  I may say that for many years I had much confidence in your magazines Time and Life as sources of reliable information, but that my confidence has been somewhat shaken by the statements that the magazines have made recently about me.

  However, this is not the reason that I ask you for an audience, although I hope that, in the course of time, the misunderstanding about me that seems to exist among the editors of Time and Life may be straightened out.

  I have recently written a book No More War!, to be published soon by Dodd, Mead and Company. I shall have a copy of the book sent to you, in two or three weeks, when copies become available. In this book I discuss the question of the nature of the modern world, the world of nuclear weapons and possible nuclear war. I point out that we are at last forced into a position of having to solve world problems in some way other than by war. I mention that the time has come for morality to take its proper place of prime importance in the conduct of world affairs - that the principles of ethical behavior that we have accepted as applying to individuals must now be applied to nations, if the world is to survive. Also, in the last chapter, I make a constructive proposal as to how world problems now need to be attacked. It is these matters especially that I hope to talk to you about.

  I am to be in New York on the afternoon of Tuesday 17 June and the morning of Wednesday 18 June (I must leave Wednesday afternoon or evening, in order to deliver the Commencement address in Antioch College). There is also the possibility that I could come to New York on Monday 7 July - I plan to come east at that time, to appear on the collage program of the American Broadcasting Company in Washington, on 6 July.

  I know that you have many demands on your time. I am as much concerned, however, about the future of humanity and it is for this reason that I hope to have the opportunity of talking with you.

  Sincerely yours,

  [Linus Pauling]

  Linus Pauling:w

• Letter from LP to Yechiael Lander, Temple Isaiah, RE: Accepts the invitation to speak in the Temple Forum Series on January 27, 1959. Suggests that the title of his talk be, "The Compelling Necessity: No More War!" [Letter from Lander to LP June 3, 1958, Letter from Lander to LP June 9, 1958] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.2]
• Letter from O. C. Kremen, to LP. RE: Applaud's LP's work regarding the cessation of hydrogen testing. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K:Correspondence, 1958) #201.2]
• Letter from Saul Bernstein to LP RE: States that he has written an anti-war documentary called "A World of Children," about seeing the world through children's eyes. Describes the plot of the movie and states he would like to meet with and read the script to LP, and then discuss it with him. [Letter from LP to Mr. Saul Bernstein, June 10, 1958] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958), #39.1]
• Letter from W. Albert Noyes, Jr., Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry, to LP. RE: Encloses a manuscript to be anonymously reviewed. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Journal of Chemical Education) #191.4]
• Note from Allen Fred, Dept. of Chemistry, Purdue University, to LP RE: States he has read the May 18th Question and Answer article and comments on it. States he is proud to call LP a friend. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Allen, Fred, 1955-1959), #5.4]
• Pamphlet: Congrès International De La Neutralité De La Médecine En Temps De Guerre (International Congress of the Neutrality of Medicine in Times of War), June 5, 6, & 7.
• Remittance Advice from Pacific Telephone to LP & AHP for $92.24. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.2]
• Renewal Certificate: Renewing Policy No. 103457 [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer 2 Folder 2.033]
• Telegram from LP to Vic Bernstein, The Nation, RE: Writes that the next to last paragraph is not correct because the date of the Gladwyn Hill article was June 9, 1957. [Memo from Bernstein to LP June 4, 1958] [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.2]