Letter from Linus Pauling to Albert Sprague Coolidge. Page 1. May 5, 1959
Letter from Linus Pauling to Albert Sprague Coolidge. May 5, 1959. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

Travel: Los Angeles, CA

Activity Listings

  • "Summary (Statement by E. B. Lewis)." (Note at top in dark blue ink: "For Fallout Hearings of May 7, 1959") [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Lewis, Edward B.), #215.7]
  • Letter from Dr. Robert F. Loeb, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, to LP RE: Tells how happy he is that LP noticed his withdrawal from academics, hopes he can serve some purpose still in the area known as the councils of old men, and hopes he is going to see LP at the Ciba Conference in London. [Letter from LP to Loeb April 13, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1959), #231.5]
  • Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to LP RE: Informs LP that at the Annual Meeting the Foundation's Board of Trustees appointed LP to another four-year term as a member of our Advisory Board. Moe hopes that LP will accept. [Letter from LP to Moe May 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1935-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.7]
  • Letter from Joan Harris, Secretary to LP, to Craig Jennings, CBS Radio Pacific Network, RE: Sends a biographical sketch of LP and a review of his book, No More War! [Letter from Jennings to LP May 5, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.23]
  • Letter from LP to Donald E. Sands and Allan Zalkin, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, RE: Says he put a brief reference in his manuscript to their work on MoCl5 and will add a reference to NbCl5 [Letter from Sands and Zalkin May 5, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Jerome Gross, Massachusetts General Hospital RE: Thanks Gross for his letter and the editorial from the Boston Herald. LP is sorry that he felt the need to resign from the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation but the differences between him and Dr. Bauer were to great. Thanks Gross for the invitation to stay with him and Mrs. Gross if he comes to Boston. [Letter from Gross to LP May 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation—Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence 1954-1959: Box #15.002, Folder #2.5]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Jerome Gross, Massachusetts General Hospital RE: Thanks him for the editorial from the Boston Herald, says he was also sorry to resign from the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, explains that his differences with Dr. Bauer were so great that he decided not to stay, and thanks him for inviting him to stay with him in Boston. [Letter from Gross to LP May 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1959), #141.3]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Philip W. Hemily, National Science Foundation RE: LP strongly recommends approval of this grant to Per-Olov Löwden for an "International Summer Institute in Quantum Chemistry" and gives his reasons why he approves it. [Letter from Hemily to LP April 17, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Correspondence, 1947, 1951-1989), Box #14.029, Folder #29.5]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Samuel C. Bukantz, Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children RE: Says Dr. Harold Barrett has told him that he is interested in receiving employment in their groups and asked him for a reference, gives Barrett's educational and research background as well as his personal opinion of Barrett and his personality, and feels he can recommend him strongly. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1959), #39.2]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. W. Eugene Knox RE: Suggests that Knox might be interested in writing to Dr. George Tarjan of Pacific State Hospital to inquire about an opening on the staff. LP explains what information he has on the position opening. [Filed under LP Science: (Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1966), Box #11.089, Folder #89.4]
  • Letter from LP to George M. Fishman RE: Thanks him for his letter with his comments on LP's address and book, says he agrees that his book should be in paperback, and says he thinks the publishers are trying to arrange it but still haven't succeeded. [Note from Fishman to LP May 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1959), #129.3]
  • Letter from LP to Johanna Heine RE: Says he was pleased to receive her letter and says he has read all the writings of Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff that she included, says he could hardly find a single sentence in her writings that was true or sensible, says Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff should be considered a threat to sanity in the world, and recommends that she have nothing to do with her or her writings. [Note from Heine to LP May 5, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1959), #167.4]
  • Letter from LP to Linus Pauling, Jr. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.038, Folder #38.2]
    7 May 1959

    Dr. Linus Pauling Jr.

    1531 South Beretania Street

    Honolulu 14, Hawaii

    Dear Linus:

    I suggest that you tell Gerardo Jovinelli to tell his two Ph.D. friends in Rome to write to Professor Robert F. Bacher, Chairman, Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, and ask what the possibilities are for getting post-doctoral appointments in physics.

    Thanks for the clippings.

    Mama and I had a good time when we went east for two weeks. We stopped at Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Detroit, Penn State University, Philadelphia, and New York, and came home by jet. We enjoyed especially a flight at about 2000 feet from Penn State University (central Pennsylvania) over the Appalachians to Philadelphia in a Cessna.

    I am pleased that Liny enjoyed his week with us. Mama and I had a good time with him, too. We are looking forward to having him back again, and to having the other children, too-perhaps one at a time.

    I am just finishing the manuscript of the third edition of the Nature of the Chemical Bond, on which I was working in Honolulu. Most of it has been sent to the publishers already.

    We are getting ready to go to Europe and probably to Africa, where we shall visit Dr. Schweitzer in Lambarene.

    Much love to you and Anita and the children,

    Linus Pauling:w

  • Letter from LP to Paul Pietrokowsky RE: Pietrokowsky's Ph.D. thesis. Points out errors and areas of confusion. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence) #313.7]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Martin Grodzins, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences RE: Thanks him for his note and pictures from Kitzbuhl, and says he looks forward to seeing him again sometime. [Letter from Grodzins to LP May 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1959), #141.3]
  • Letter from LP to Robert G. Gilpin, Jr., RE: Says he would be glad to help him as much as he can while preparing for his trips abroad, suggests he get a copy of his book No More War as the petition to the United Nations is in the book, says he doesn't have an extra copy of the signatures but tells him which groups on the list have been published, and says that he doesn't know any journal that closely approximates his views. [Letter from Gilpin to LP April 30, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1959), #141.3]
  • Letter from LP to Roslyn Schuldenfrei, Southland Jewish Organization, to LP RE: Says he regrets that he and AHP will be unable to attend the Annual Donor Dinner. [Letter from Schuldenfrei to LP May 6, 1959, Note from Harris to LP May 11, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
  • Letter from LP to Thomas Wartik, Pennsylvania State University, RE: Says he has found his missing slide. Expresses his pleasure at having been able to visit Penn State. [Letter from Wartik to LP April 5, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.17]
  • Letter from LP to Victor Reynolds, Cornell University Press, RE: Informs that he plans to come to Ithaca for only the two weeks of his lectures. Says his plans may change. [Letter from Reynolds to LP May 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Books: 1960b5.3]
  • Letter from Lila Refregier to LP RE: Thanks LP for the introduction he wrote for Anton Refregier's book, Song of Peace. Says she will send LP a copy soon. [Letter from Refregier to LP April 9, 1959] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a.6]
  • Letter from Lucille de Vries to LP RE: Requests that LP read her paper and evaluate her ideas on stress syndrome and mental illness. Explains her vested interest in and familial connections with mental illness. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.22]
  • Letter from Lucille de Vries to LP RE: Says he is the only person she knows of who is qualified to evaluate her enclosed paper, explains it is her ideas on the stress syndrome and mental illness, says her daughter was mentally disturbed in her teens, says a man she knows proposed the organization of a study and discussion group for persons interested in mental illness, and hopes to talk to him after his speech at the Temple City High School Science Club on May 12 to receive his comments. (Attached: paper on "The Stress Syndrome") [Letter from LP to de Vries May 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1959), #98.24]
  • Letter from Robert E. Hess to LP RE: Says he and his family are becoming alarmed over the contamination of the atmosphere by nuclear testing, asks how best the people of the U.S. could publicize their protests, believes a petition signed by several million people and presented at the U.N. or the mailing of several million postcards might do it, says it might help to secure an agreement at Geneva, wishes newspapers would get behind the fight, and asks if he has any advice as they have no common champion of common procedure to subscribe to. [Letter from LP to Hess May 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1959), #167.4]
  • Letter from Theo Theimann to LP RE: Written in German. Provides an account of a simple experiment which he describes as showing that OH- groups are present in sodium hydroxide. [Letter from LP to Theimann April 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1959), #411.4]
  • Letter from William Price, United Independent-Socialist Committee, to LP RE: Brings to LP's attention a New York State Public Health Department report on the relation between natural radiation and the malformation of infants. Requests LP's opinion on the matter. [Letter from LP to Price May 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence) #313.7]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Asks appeal court to halt atom tests," New York Metropolitan News, May 7, 1959. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.305]
  • Newspaper Clipping: "Body molecules to be discussed by Dr. Pauling," Pasadena (California) Independent, May 7, 1959. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.305]
  • Note from Pearl C. Ewald to LP RE: Says she wishes for a deeper faith, says she has heard that scientists often use their own bodies for testing, offers to volunteer to be tested on instead as they need every scientist these days, and asks if he would know where she could give this service. [Letter from LP to Ewald May 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1959), #112.25]