Letter from Linus Pauling to A. V. Muller. August 7, 1961. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Article: “Civil Defense: Who’d Survive?” Newsweek. [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1954-1961: Box #7.007, Folder #7.9]
• Article: “Radioactive Tubing,” Chemical and Engineering News. [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: The Biological Effects of Radiation, 1960-1962: Box #7.016, Folder #16.16]
• Letter from AHP to LP, RE: informs LP that Mrs. Vally Weigl, Clinical Assistant at the New York Medical College, lectured on the subject of Functional Music as a Therapeutic Tool in Work With Mentally Retarded Children for an honorarium of $75.00. [Filed under AHP Correspondence: (Correspondence: Weigl, Vally, 1961-1970, 1976, 1981), Box #1.003, File #3.17] 
• Letter from Brent Howell to LP, RE: Howell thanks LP for the 400 copies of the Oslo Statement.  Howell estimates that the costs associated with including the Statement in the Peace Packet will be $17.00.  Howell would appreciate any contribution that LP can make to help defray these expenses.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4]
• Letter from Charles Philips to LP and AHP, RE: Philips requests that LP send him ten copies of the Oslo Statement. [Handwritten note on page, “sent September 3, 1961"] [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4] 
• Letter from Dr. Oscar Hechter, The Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, to LP, RE: Two years ago Dr. Hechter met with LP to discuss some ideas concerning the chemical mechanisms involved in selection and exclusion of ions and molecules in living cells.  He has been working on this since then, and believes he is on the threshold of some very interesting things.  He sends reprints to let LP know what he has been working on.  He is now working on a system for investigating the chemical mechanisms operating in permeability processes in living cells, and would like to discuss it with LP when he is in Los Angeles from August 19 to 26.  P.S. Thinks that LP’s anesthesia theory is very exciting, but could have implications in the importance of water structures in the cell. [Letter from LP to Dr. Hechter, August 11, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #168.1]
• Letter from Edmund Muskie to LP, RE: Muskie thanks LP for sending him a copy of the Oslo Statement. [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4] 
• Letter from Fred Okrand to John Raeburn Green, cc: LP RE: Explains that Mr. Wirin is in Los Angeles now, trying to take it easy, but has had conferences with both Okrand and LP. Writes that the letter he forwarded from LP should be a reply to the main portion of his inquiry and he has previously written Green about the other matters. [Letter from Green to Okrand August 3, 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1967), Box #3.003, Folder #3.2] 
• Letter from Jack Miller to LP, RE: Miller thanks LP for sending him a copy of the Oslo Statement. [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4] 
• Letter from L.O. ten Cate to Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP,, LP's secretary, RE: Cate thanks Harris for sending him a copy of the Oslo Statement, and he will publish a Dutch translation. Cate has heard that some of the papers from the Oslo conference have been stencilled, and wonders if Harris might send them. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), #411.6]
• Letter from LP to A.V. Muller. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Deer Flat Ranch: Correspondence, 1957-1995), Box #4.047, Folder #47.1] 

  7 August 1961

  Dear Mr. Muller:

  I am writing to ask you and Mr. Woolpert to give we some advice in connection with the desire that my wife and I have to get some water from Salmon Creek, for use on our ranch at Salmon Creek, Monterey County.

  The Salmon Creak ranch contains 160 acres. It lies to the northwest of Salmon Creek, and our southeast boundary, which is irregular, runs approximately parallel to Salmon Creek, for about 3,000 feet. The closest approach of our boundary to the creek itself is 500 feet.

  There is a ridge running through our ranch, such that approximately half of the ranch drains into Salmon Creek. The other half drains into the ocean. More precisely, I estimate that 70 acres of the 160 drains into Salmon Creek.

  We get water for household use and agricultural use (drinking water for cattle, some irrigation) from several springs. The springs supply water through the summer, but the supply is limited, and we feel that it would be better to have an additional supply from Salmon Creek. We also would like to consider the possibility of having same irrigated pasture, to provide grass for cattle.

  The property around our property, aside from the ocean, is all in the Los Padres National Forest. The only privately owned property near us is the ranch to the southwest, owned by Mrs. Thomas Evans (Mrs. Evelyn Evans). Her ranch is about one mile away. At no point is her ranch close to Salmon Creek.

  The road crosses Salmon Creek at an elevation of about 500 feet. Above the Salmon Creek Falls, at an elevation of about 400 feet, there is the intake of a pipeline, one inch, I think, for water for use at the Salmon Creek Ranger Station. This pipe may be approximately 1000 feet long.

  We have in mind going somewhat farther up Salmon Creek to get water, to an elevation of approximately 500 feet, in order to provide gravity water and get over the ridge. The intake would then be about 1000 feet from our eastern boundary, and it would accordingly be necessary to get permission from the Forest Service to run the pipe this distance of 1000 feet.

  It is accordingly my understanding that we are the only private property owner in the neighborhood who would be interested in making use of water from Salmon Creek. The terrain on the southeast aide of the creek is such, that it seems to me unlikely that Mrs. Evans would have any interest. The intake that we propose lies above Salmon Creek Falls, and there is the possibility that the Forest Service would object to taking water from the Creek, because of the decreased scenic value of the Falls. In the winter months the Falls are beautiful. In the summer the amount of water that flows is small enough so that the scenic value is very small, and I do not think that the decreased flow could be considered very significant in the summer.

  Salmon Creek is approximately six miles long. It drains an area of about ten square miles, extending as far as Silver Peak, Lyon Peak, and Three Peaks.

  I should like to know what the water-rights laws say about the possibility of our making use of some of the water from Salmon Creek.

  My wife and I shall be grateful to you for your help.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

• Letter from LP to Clarence Pickett, RE: LP discusses with Pickett how his relationship with Norman Cousins has deteriorated.  LP points out that Cousins called the Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons a “neutralist rally” and has also failed to reply to LP’s letter of June 2nd.  LP continues to cooperate with Sane and hopes that the organization can be changed so that it will be more effective.   [Filed under LP Peace: (SANE: Materials regarding Dodd Committee Investigation and Subsequent Controversy Over Membership of Communists in SANE, 196-1962), Box #4.004, Folder #4.3]
• Letter from LP to David F. Smith. RE: Thanks him for the additional reprints. Has sent his letter to the Placement Office of the Institute. [Letter from Smith July 25, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2] 
• Letter from LP to Fairbanks, Morse and Company RE: “Would you please send me information about the Fairbanks, Morse electrical generating set Z, described in The New York Times for 31 July. I should like also to have information, including prices, about other types of small electric generating sets for us in rural districts.” [Filed under LP Safe: Drawer #2, Folder #2.039]       
• Letter from LP to Norman Cousins, RE: LP notes that the principle target of his recent efforts to improve Sane has been the implementation statement of July 29, 1960.  LP thinks that if he and Cousins and Pickett had been working together that this statement would not have been issued.  LP’s personal feelings about Cousins have been influenced by Cousins’s failure to reply to LP’s letter of May 29, 1960.  [Cousins’ letter August 4, 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 #4.2]
• Letter from LP to Professor Ronald Nyholm, University College London, cc Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman and Company, RE: LP looks forward to seeing Nyholm write a treatise on transition metals and a textbook on inorganic chemistry.  He has always been treated well by W. H. Freeman and Company, and hopes that Nyholm will keep them in mind when he is making a decision on the books. [Letter from Schaefer to LP July 28, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Individual Correspondence. (Noyes, H. Pierre - Nyholm)), #279.7]
• Letter from LP to Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman & Co., RE: Explain that he thinks it seems unwise to publish a dictionary of molecular constants because such a dictionary has already been published. [Letter from Schaefer to LP July 28, 1961] [Filed under LP Books: 1955b.5]  
• Letter from LP to Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman & Co., RE: Inquires about an issue regarding the lettering of the figures in College Chemistry.  [Letter from Schaefer to LP September 9, 1961] [Filed under LP Books: 1955b.4]
• Letter from LP to The Editor, The New York Times, RE: LP was pleased to see the article by Professor Albert Szent-Györgyi on the Secret of the Creative Impulse, July 30, 1961.  He asks if they are interested in publishing a similar article by himself on The Genesis of Ideas.  He was one of the other speakers at the Symposium on Scientific Creativity at the Third World Congress of Psychiatry, and his speech was in the same style as Szent-Györgyi’s.  He hasn’t written anything up yet, but would if there was the possibility of its publication. [Letter from Markel to LP, August 9, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Organizational Correspondence. (Na - Nu)), #286.7]
• Letter from Maurine Neuberger to LP, RE: Neuberger has read the Oslo Statement and things that it came at the most opportune time.  Neuberger has been asked to appear on a television program to discuss the subject, “Nuclear Testing is a Must for Freedom.”  [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4]
• Letter from Milton Young to LP, RE: Young thanks LP for sending him a copy of the Oslo Statement. [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4] 
• Letter from Paul S. Weinberg to LP, RE: The International Vanguard Feature News is doing an audio tape on civil defense and would like to have a contribution from LP. They invite LP to submit a 10-15 minute-long manuscript of his views on nuclear testing, civil defense, and various related topics. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960-1962), #445.2]
• Letter from Professor George Kennedy, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, to LP, RE: As Chairman of the Scientific Committee for the Los Angeles County Museum, Kennedy set up a lecture series last year to introduce the people of Los Angeles to modern scientific thought.  The event was well received, with nearly-full houses at each talk.  The four lecturers were Professor Teller, Professor Libby, Professor Harrison Brown, and Professor Lynn White.  He would like LP to give a similar talk on a subject of his choosing during the coming year. The dates are the third Wednesdays of January, February, March, and April, from 8 to 9 in the evening. [Letter from LP to Kennedy, August 18, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.1]
• Letter from R.W. Spitzer, Ph.D., M.D., Director of Biochemistry Laboratories, Royal Columbian Hospital, to LP, RE: Asks if a medical student, Dave Derry, would have an interview with LP; he is interested in the chemistry of medical disorders. [Letter from LP to Professor Niemann, August 31, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1960-1966), #99.2] 
• Letter from Willy Brill to LP, RE: Written in German. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958-1961), #39.4] 
• Memorandum from LP to Donald Clark. RE: Enclose a letter from Dr. David F. Smith. Informs him that Smith would prefer to be doing institutional research or teaching general or physical chemistry. Asks him to put him in the files and refer any possible jobs to him. [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2] 
• Memorandum from LP to Evelyn Huston. RE: Has had another letter from Dr. David P. Smith. Informs her that Smith believes that his paper on bismuth was his official Ph.D thesis. [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2] 
• Note from Katherine Brault to LP, RE: Asks what she can do to combat the “fear campaign” in America. [Letter from LP to Katherine Brault, August 16, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958-1961), #39.4] 
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP RE: “Receipt Portion.”  For a deposit. $438.00.   [Envelope 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.1]