Letter from Linus Pauling to Charles L. Nord. March 16, 1959. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Allen Cleaners and Dryers for $20.40. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Arnold's Hardware for $26.33. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter for $5.15. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Desert Protective Council Inc. For $9.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Mira Loma Mutual Water Company for $8.56. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Pacific Telephone for $20.41. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Richfield Oil Company for $3.95. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Southern California Gas Company for $2.38. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Letter from Alois Stoff, Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner, to LP RE: Written in German. Inquires about whether LP will visit Germany in July. Encloses newspaper clippings [Letter from LP to Stoff December 10, 1958, Letter from Stoff to LP June 8, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s2.3]
• Letter from Emanuel Berger and his Physics Classes, William Howard Taft High School, to LP RE: Says they would like to create an atmosphere conducive to the learning of science, says the time for interest about science is in high school, says they are sending letters to many leading scientists, asks for any information about himself and his family, says they would like a snapshot of him, and says anything he writes will do much to inspire them in their future education and life's work. [Letter from Harris to Berger April 10, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1959), #39.2]
• Letter from F. L. Minnear, North Dakota Agricultural College, to LP RE: Invites LP to participate in the National Science Foundation's 1959 Summer Science Institute. [Letter from LP to Minnear March 21, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1959), #288.3]
• Letter from Greta Slater to LP RE: Requests that LP furnish current information of fallout dangers to humans and their safety for use in creating a bulletin for her local County Democratic Club. [Letter from LP to Mrs. Slater March 19, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
• Letter from H. D. MacGinitie, Director, N. S. F. Summer Science Institute, Humboldt State College, to LP RE: Says they are having an N. S. F. Institute for high school teachers that summer to help elevate them to a certain extent beyond their subject matter, asks if LP could spend a day or two with them between June 22 and July 31, says they would pay expenses, and says he might also be interested in learning that they have a four weeks institute for exceptional high school students who are interested in science. (Attached: brochure for "Humboldt State College Summer Science Institute") [Letter from LP to MacGinitie March 20, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1959), #167.4]
• Letter from LP to Ake Sandler, Los Angeles State College. RE: Informs him that he is booked up till fall. Cannot accept his invitation. [Letter from Sandler March 14, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1960) #231.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. Neyman, Director, Statistical Laboratory, University of California, RE: Writes that he will be unable to attend the AAAS meeting because he plans to be in Europe, and accordingly, he will be unable to present a paper. Also encloses a reprint of his letter "The Effects of Strontium-90 on Mice." [Letter from Neyman to LP, March 2, 1959] [LP Science: Box 14.001, folder 1.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. William Dock, Professor of Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center RE: Says he was pleased to learn more about the history of the study of sickle cell anemia in his letter, says he mentioned his conviction that there was an abnormal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia while he was lecturing in England, says Perutz might have decided to investigate that from his lectures, says he was interested to learn about the development of his ballistocardiograph, says he is working on the preparation of a third edition of The Nature of the Chemical Bond, and says he has nearly completed the job. [Letters from Dock to LP March 3, 1959, March 20, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1959), #98.24]
• Letter from LP to Kenneth Sheldon MacLean RE: Encloses reprints on his work on magnetic properties of hemoglobin and related substances and on forces between large molecules. [Letter from MacLean to LP March 2, 1959, Letter from MacLean to LP March 24, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1959), #258.1]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Harold Gates RE: Regrets that his absence prevented him from accepting Gates's invitation to a supper on March 8. [Letter from Harris to Gates March 5, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.4]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.043, Folder #43.3]

  17 March 1959

  Dear Peter:

  Mommie and I were glad to have your letter.

  She was rather sick for a few days, with a sort of flu. In fact, much to her disappointment, she was not able to give her talk about Russia to the Women for Legislative Action. I took her place, and said all of the things I could remember her having said.

  I am glad to know that we should not post the map to you. I am keeping it in my office.

  We have been up to the ranch for ten days. I got about two chapters of the book written. Also, I made a second bookcase. It is made of three birch shelves, eight inches wide and five feet long (made from stock an inch and a quarter thick). The uprights are brass rod, threaded the full length. It stands three feet high, and is at the south end of the room. I have taken up a set of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, 9th edition, to have there for reference, although it is rather out of date. For example, it gives the principal cities in California, with their population. Number 6 is Grass Valley, 8,000 population and number 7 is Los Angeles, 6,000 population.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Robert D. Carlitz RE: Encloses some material that he might find suitable for his speech in the declamation contest. [Letter from Carlitz to LP March 5, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.2]
• Letter from LP to Robert H. Sollen, The Press-Courier, RE: Looks forward to seeing Sollen on March 24 at Caltech for an interview. [Letter from LP to Sollen March 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
• Letter from LP to Science Council, George Pepperdine College, RE: Accepts the invitation to speak and the annual dinner meeting of the science clubs of Pepperdine College. Says he and AHP will arrive on May 8 at 7:30 PM. Suggests that his talk be on new developments in science. [Letter from Science Council to LP March 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.21]
• Letter from LP to V. J. Stack RE: Returns Stacks' manuscript. Says Stack's field of interest is complex and one in which progress will likely be significant but slow. [Letter from Stack to LP February 28, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
• Letter from LP to the Judges, Manufacturing Chemists Association, Chemistry Awards Program RE: Writes in support of the nomination of Richard M. Badger of Cal Tech for an Annual College Chemistry Teaching Award sponsored by the Manufacturing Chemists Association, tells of his experience with Badger's teaching and research program, tells about his contributions to the field of spectroscopy and the teaching of physical chemistry, and tells about his personality. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Badger, Richard M., 1937, 1948, 1959), 23.1]
• Letter from Philip Noel-Baker to LP RE: Is pleased to hear of LP and AHP's proposed visit to England. Hopes that they might meet during the visit. [Letter from LP to Noel-Baker March 2, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Noel-Baker, Phillip), #277.11]
• Letter from Ruth Nanda Anshen, World Perspectives, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, to LP RE: Reminds him that she wrote last September, assumes that since he didn't reply he didn't know when he was coming to New York, asks when he planning on coming to New York so that she might have half an hour with him, and says she would be delighted to see him for tea or lunch or whatever he might suggest. [Letter from Anshen to LP September 19, 1959, letter from LP to Anshen May 8, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1959), #13.2]
• Typescript: The Most Important Thing in the World, Editorial for the Pasadena Independent-Star News, March 17, 1959. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a.3]