August 2, 1961 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Letter from AHP to Dr. Orlie Pell, RE: Says that she believes that the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s action in inviting twelve women from the Soviet Union is a good first step. Also states that she is pleased to accept the invitation to be a U.S. delegate and inquires more into the program. Notes that she will be sure to arrange her schedule so as to be free to come to Bryn Mawr. [Filed under AHP materials re: Peace and Women: (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: 1959-1981), Box#4.001, Folder#1.1]

Letter from AHP to Ilse Singer, RE: Asks whether the WIL chapter in Flushing would be interested in letting her speak between November 1-7. Requests a reply as soon as possible so that she will be able to make up her itinerary. [Filed under AHP materials re: Peace and Women: (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: 1959-1981), Box#4.001, Folder#1.1]

Letter from Carmen Zanti [Signed by Odile Arrighi], Women’s International Democratic Federation, to AHP, RE: Thanks AHP for the copy of the Oslo Statement, and states that their organization is working towards further pressing the work of the conference and defending the fundamental principles inscribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Also says that they have been working to augment women’s efforts for nuclear disarmament, and have included a copy of an appeal sent out to their members. [Filed under AHP materials re: Peace and Women: (Correspondence: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1959-1981), Box#4.001, Folder#1.1]

Letter from Donald Harrington to LP, RE: Harrington believes that in most cases people who align with Communists have shown their beliefs and thoughts in their past actions. While Harrington does not think that the government has the right to interrogate him or anyone else about their beliefs, he does think that an organization like Sane does have the right. Sane is a voluntary citizens’ groups and is trying to maintain its integrity. [LP’s letter July 13, 1961] [Reply from LP August 9, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (SANE: Materials regarding Dodd Committee Investigation and Subsequent Controversy Over Membership of Communists in SANE, 1960-1962), Box #4.004, Folder #4.3]

Letter from Dwight W. Norris, for the Editors of Newsweek to LP RE: Encloses a copy of Newsweek’s August 7th issue including articles on the U.S. civil-defense preparations and the prospects of survival if nuclear war occurred. Hopes that LP will comment about these articles in a letter to the editor. [Letter from LP to Norris August 8, 1961] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1961), Box #1961a, Folder #1961a.16]

Letter from Joan Harris, Secretary to LP, to Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman & Co., RE: Requests two copies of the latest printing of College Chemistry. [Letter from Schaefer to Harris September 4, 1961] [Filed under LP Books: 1955b.4]

Letter from LP to Anne Stabler, RE: LP hopes that the 500 copies of the Statement because he received a returned letter to the Platform for Peace which said “no such address.” [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4]

Letter from LP to Barry Commoner, Washington University, RE: Writes that he would rather Commoner not speak with Green since it is LP’s decision about what to do with the letters in his possession. Explains that Commoner is the person most connected with the Appeal, besides LP himself. Thinks that the difficulty Commoner has found in deciding how to respond to LP’s request provides the answer to his question. [Letters from Commoner to LP July 26, 1961, August 9, 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1967), Box #3.003, Folder #3.2]

Letter from LP to Dr. Stanley R. Miller, School of Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego. [Letter from Miller to LP, July 21, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1959-1961), #258.3]

2 August 1961

Dear Professor Miller:

Your letter of 21 July arrived just as I was leaving the laboratory for a ten-day stay at the ranch, where I am cut off from the rest of the world. Accordingly I was not able to let you know that I would not be in Pasadena on 26 July.

I have been pleased to read your manuscript on gaseous anesthetics. It seems to me that your theory is essentially the same as mine. I can't see that there is any difference between an iceberg and a hydrate micro-crystal. You also refer to water in an icelike state, and often refer to the ice cover.

My manuscript in a form pretty close to the final one was written in May 1960. I would have got it published in the summer of 1960 if I had not been interrupted by the Internal Security Subcommittee of the U. S. Senate. You probably noticed in the published paper that the theory was presented first on 23 May 1960.

You may find it helpful in correcting proof to have the following list of words misspelled in your manuscript: Boltzmann, Lennard-Jones, anomalous (several places), Hadzi.

Also, in the next to the last sentence the verb should be are.

It is awkward to write Lennard-Jones-Devonshire, because it looks as though there are three men, rather than two, involved. I suggest that you say the theory of Lennard-Jones and Devonshire.

Your discussion of carbon dioxide, page 12, seems to me to be wrong. The CO₂ in the blood could contribute to anesthesia, as both you and I have pointed out. However, at a given partial pressure of CO₂ the concentration of dissolved CO₂ molecules is independent of the alkalinity or acidity of the blood. What you call high CO₂ is really, I think, high hydrogen carbonation, and low CO2 is low hydrogen carbonate ion. Hydrogen carbonate ion may well contribute to physiology, but presumably by a hydrogen-bonding mechanism

I am sending you a reprint under separate cover.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:jh

Letter from LP to President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. RE: Protests against the arrest and holding of the Mexican painter Siquerios without trial. Asks that he be pardoned and released. [Letter from Morales August 16, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2]

Letter from LP to Professor Rusznyák, President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, RE: LP is sorry to say that circumstances have caused he and AHP to cancel their summer trip to Europe, and they will not make it to Hungary. They may make a short trip to London for a peace meeting, but if that happens they will have to return immediately to the U.S. LP looks forward to visiting the Academy of Sciences, but he will have to postpone this another year. He and AHP were happy to see Professor Rusznyák and his wife in Oslo, and wish they had more time to talk with them. [Letter from Professor Rusznyák to LP, July 24, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #168.1]

Letter from LP to Standard Oil Company of California. RE: Informs them that the station operated in Gorman, California is inferior to other Standard stations. Asks them to do something about the quality of the station. [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2]

Letter from LP to Stanley McClatchie, RE: LP asks what sort of research McClaskie is carrying out at the Discovery Center. He encloses the Oslo Statement and a copy of a letter to the New York Times on the possibility of man’s destroying himself. Under separate cover he is sending No More War! and the pamphlet Fallout. Handwritten at the bottom: “Also sent: Bryn Mawr, Kalven, Aging and Death, Sr-90 Letter, C-14.” [Letters from McClatchie to LP, July 25, 1961 and August 5, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1959-1961), #258.3]

Letter from LP to Walter Boas, RE: LP is pleased to learn that Boas has distributed the 200 copies of the Oslo Statement. LP notes that there is no charge for sending the statements to Boas. LP and AHP look forward to reading the Quarterly which contains Boas’ statement and introduction. [Boas’ letter July 25, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, April-December, 1961), Box #5.013, Folder #13.1]

Letter from Nils K. Ståhle, Nobel Foundation, to LP, RE: Ståhle regrets hearing that LP’s photographs from the Nobel Festival of 1954 went astray. They have made copies so that he may have this souvenir, and apologizes for taking so long. [Letters from LP to Ståhle, February 3, 1961 and August 10, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1957-1964), #288.5]

Letter from Robert S. Anderson, Senior Editor, Crowell-Coullier Publishing Company, to LP, RE: Asks LP to write an article on “Acids and Bases” for a new young people’s encyclopedia, aimed at high school kids. [Letter from LP to Mr. Robert S. Anderson, August 11, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #76.1]

Letter from Robert Zemsky, Whittier College, to LP. RE: Apologizes that he did not reply earlier. Requests a picture of LP and a suggestion for a reading list. [Letter from LP June 19, 1961, August 4, 1961] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Folder # 1960s3 Box #1960s3.8]

Letter from Woodrow L. Wroblewski to LP RE: Asks for LP’s comments on his discovery of the 5th dimension and the absolute equation of the universe, of which Mr. Henry L. Richter, Jr. of the Instruments Section of the Space Sciences at Caltech has a copy. [Filed under LP Correspondence (R: Correspondence, 1960-1963), #342.2]

Minutes, SPU Steering Committee Meeting. [Filed under LP Peace: Assorted Peace Groups, St-Wa), Box #4.015, Folder #15.1]

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