Letter from Linus Pauling to Fredrik H. Raab. Page 1. December 19, 1961
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Activity Listings

  • Check from LP to Linda Hopkins for $200.00. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] 
  • Check from LP to Sheraton Plaza for $37.09. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] 
  • Letter from Bruce M. Shawver to LP RE: Tells LP about his idea that a voluntary tax of about 1% of one’s yearly income be sent to the United Nations as a means of showing support as well as financially aiding the UN. Asks LP what he thinks about this idea. [Letter from LP to Shawver January 10, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Box 382 Folder 382.1] 
  • Letter from Klaus-Otto Rond to LP RE: Asks LP for his autograph. Handwritten note in bottom, right corner: “Photo mailed 7/3/63.” [Filed under LP Correspondence (R: Correspondence, 1960-1963), #342.2]               
  • Letter from LP to Anne C. Brooker and Robert E. Humphreys of Bucknell University, RE: LP cannot accept the invitation to speak at the Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma initiation banquet. [Letter from Anne C. Brooker and Robert E. Humphreys of Bucknell University to LP, December 12, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1958-1961),#13.4] 
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Harry J. Silver, RE: LP is sorry that he cannot accept the invitation to speak for the Los Angeles City Osteopathic Society; his schedule is already too full. [Letter from Kamb to Silver, November 22, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.1] 
  • Letter from LP to G. Menzer RE: Thanks Menzer for inviting him to speak on structures of biological interest on the Commemoration Meeting in July. Apologizes for not having responded yet, explaining that he has been out of town for most of the past two months. Says he is glad to accept the invitation. [Letter from Menzer to LP November 17, 1961] [Letter from LP to Menzer February 8, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence 1962-1964), #259.1] 
  • Letter from LP to George L. Bensley, RE: Thanks Mr. Bensley for the clipping.  Relates how he spoke at a peace meeting in Moscow, and also gave about a dozen talks on the theory of resonance in chemistry.  Handwritten at the bottom: “Under separate cover: Bryn Mawr, 2 Frontier, Liberation, Fallout, Humanism”. [Letter from George L. Bensley to LP, November 29, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958-1961), #39.4]
  • Letter from LP to James Thomson, RE: LP has learned that Professor Kaplan was to deliver the 34,733 Canadian signatures to Thomson and thanks Thomson for cooperating.  LP is enclosing a copy of the press release that he and AHP issued in New York.  [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 #13.2]
  • Letter from LP to Kenneth Campbell, President, Long Beach Young Democrats, RE: LP has a very heavy schedule in the next few months, and has decided that he can’t add any more speaking engagements until next fall. [Letter from Kamb to Campbell November 18, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.1]
  • Letter from LP to Lawrence W. Baldwin, RE: LP is grateful for the letter inviting him to speak at Santa Monica High School, but must decline because he will be away as part of a lecture series sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. [Letter from Lawrence W. Baldwin to LP, undated] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #76.1] 
  • Letter from LP to Marilyn LeVine RE: Talks about the amount of radiation that probably escaped from the underground bomb tests. Says that he is against all bomb tests. [Letter from LeVine December 12, 1961] [Letter from LeVine January 12, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, L: Correspondence 1961-1963 Box 232, Folder 232.2] 
  • Letter from LP to Michael Levi Matar, Counsellor at Law, RE: Writes about his schedule for the near future and mentions that the judge has ordered LP to give the names of every person who submitted copies of the UN petition and LP thinks he will probably do so. [Letter from Matar to LP October 30, 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Pauling v. National Review, Buckley, et al., 1961-1969), Box #3.016, Folder #16.1]
  • Letter from LP to Mr. And Mrs. A.A. Heller, RE: Thanks the couple for the encouragement. [Note from Mr. And Mrs. Heller, December 7, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #168.1] 
  • Letter from LP to Mr. Edwin T. Randall RE: Says that he was disappointed that he was unable to make a recording for him when he and AHP were in Philadelphia and that he hopes to be able to at another time. Notes that he and AHP are not planning to stay in Philadelphia during the next near future. [Letter from Randall to LP November 23, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (R: Correspondence, 1960-1963), #342.2] 
  • Letter from LP to Mr. Gustave Ridley RE: Thanks Ridley for his letter and poem and wishes him a happy New Year. Notes that he is sending him some material under separate cover. Handwritten note at the bottom: “packet + Oslo Statement/mailed.” [Handwritten note from Ridley to LP November 28, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (R: Correspondence, 1960-1963), #342.2] 
  • Letter from LP to Mr. H. George Resch RE: Tells Resch that he does not know of any good studies of the RAND Corporation that have been published. [Letter from Resch to LP December 19, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (R: Correspondence, 1960-1963), #342.2] 
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. Lawrence Bloomberg, RE: LP is too busy in the next few months to speak in Washington.  He is sending some recent papers on shelters and other subjects.  Handwritten note at the bottom says “2 Frontier, Liberation”. [Letter from Linda Pauling Kamb to Mrs. Lawrence Bloomberg, December 4, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958-1961), #39.4]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. Sylvia Kaplan, RE: LP is pleased to learn that Professor Kaplan has delivered the signatures to James Thomson.  LP is enclosing a copy of the press release from New York about the batch of signatures which were turned in.  [Kaplan’s letter November 6, 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 #13.2]
  • Letter from LP to Mrs. William H. Short RE: LP thanks Short for sending a copy of her letter to Willard Libby.  LP has also written to Libby.  LP hopes that the pamphlet on fallout shelters, to be released by the government, won’t contain the untrue or misleading statements similar to those expressed by Libby.  [Letter from Short to Willard Libby November 7, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1954-1961: Box #7.007, Folder #7.20]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Michael Heidelberger, Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, RE: LP found his letter upon return from the Soviet Union.  His letters to the President have gone unanswered, except one, which was answered by McGeorge Bundy.  LP thinks that the argument about surrendering is avoiding the issue, since we are so far from the final extreme.  This issue should be whether it is alright to conduct international relations using the threat of nuclear war.  Handwritten at the bottom: “ 2 Frontier, Liberation-mailed”. [Letter from Professor Heidelberger to LP, November 13, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Individual Correspondence. (Haaland-Harned)), #151.8]
  • Letter from LP to R.T. Bond, Dodd, Mead and Company, RE: Explains that he did not include any information on the fallout shelters in the final chapter or appendix because he exceeded the number of words allowed and decided to leave it out. Encloses two articles he published recently on fallout shelters and asks if some of the paragraphs could be included in the book. [Letters from Bond to LP November 13, 1961, December 27, 1961] [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1] 
  • Letter from LP to Richard D. Lambert, The Annals, RE: LP says he is unable to review the book by Boyko at this time. [Letter from Shirley H. Murray to Linda Pauling Kamb, December 7, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1958-1961), #13.4]
  • Letter from LP to Ricky Slatnick, Nancy Rosenthal, Marla Yager and Bernard Wishnia. RE: Informs them that nobody has succeeded in synthesizing any kinds of protoplasm and doesn’t think it will be accomplished in the near future. Suggests that the look at a different problem. [Letter from Slatnick November 22, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2] 
  • Letter from LP to Robert Amos, San Diego State College, RE: Apologizes that he has decided not to add another speaking engagement to his heavy schedule, which includes several lecture tours and four court cases. Mentions that perhaps he will be able to make it to San Diego in the fall. [Letter from Amos to LP December 10, 1961, Letter from Amos to LP January 21, 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: Assorted Materials re: Civil Liberties), Box #2.046, Folder #46.1]
  • Letter from LP to Robert Fulton. RE: Thanks him for sending the photostat of his letter to his father from 31 May 1918. [Filed under LP Correspondence (F: Correspondence, 1961): Box #129 Folder #129.5]
  • Letter from LP to Robert J. O’Brien, First Unitarian Congregational Church, RE: LP wishes he could accept the invitation to participate in the Memorial Day rally, but his schedule has become so full that he has decided not to take on any more engagements. [Letter from O’Brien to LP, November 20, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1937-1965), #300.23] 
  • Letter from LP to Ron Dare, RE: Suggests a book on radiation effects. [Letter from Mr. Dare to LP, November 20, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1960-1966), #99.2] 
  • Letter from LP to Rowland Evans, RE: LP thinks that letters to the President are valuable.  He just wrote another one expressing the hope that the fallout shelter pamphlet that is to be distributed by the government won’t contain any of the misleading statements from the LIFE article or the series of 15 articles by Professor Libby.  Handwritten at the bottom: “mailed- 2 Frontier, Liberation”.  [Note from Mr. Evans to LP, November 21, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), #113.2]
  • Letter from LP to Sherwood Waldron Jr., RE: LP encloses some published material dealing with nuclear war and fallout shelters. The civil defense authorities are not generally very candid about the sort of nuclear attack that they discuss. The enclosed articles show why LP thinks shelter construction is a waste of money and increases danger rather than decreasing it. LP thinks that even a rather small nuclear war would kill everyone in the northeast United States, and that a large nuclear war would kill everyone in the U.S. and the USSR. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960-1962), #445.2]
  • Letter from LP to Sterling Emerson, titled “Statistics”, RE: LP has discussed Mr. Emerson’s problem with Barclay Kamb, and they agree that it is right to use a factor of ½ for multiple occurrences along the edges and 1/4 for the corner.  An arbitrary linear sequence would work best.  LP details the mathematical steps. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), #113.2]
  • Letter from LP to Wayne Holley, President, The Public Affairs Forum of Utah County, RE: LP has a very heavy schedule during the coming months, but he will be visiting Logan, Utah, in early February.  Unfortunately he will be too busy to extend his stay and give another address. [Letter from Holley to LP November 10, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1960-1963), #314.2]
  • Letter from LP to the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, RE: Writes to nominate Robert Corey for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1962.  Suggests that it could be split between Corey, Kendrew, and Perutz, who have all made significant contributions to chemistry. [Letter from LP to Nobel Committee for Chemistry, July 17, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Nobel Prize Nominations: Correspondence, 1940, 1942, 1948, 1958, 1960-1970.), #280.5]
  • Letter from Peter Pauling to LP RE: Pauling talks about the mortgage on his house, the magnetism paper he is writing, and thanks LP for the shirts he sent Pauling and the toys for the kids. Pauling talks about building his machine to collect data and the structure of a compound he has been working on. Pauling thanks LP for all his help. [Filed under LP Safe: Drawer #2, Folder #2.039]