Letter from Linus Pauling to Gunnar Jahn. Page 1. May 8, 1962
Letter from Linus Pauling to Gunnar Jahn. May 8, 1962. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

Activity Listings

  • Check from AHP to Lenore Peters Job for $75.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] 
  • Check from AHP to Southern California Refuse for $24.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] also [Filed under LP Biographical: Check Registers, 1961-1962: Box # 4.076 Folder #76.5] 
  • Letter from Ann Lauphlin to LP RE: Encloses a small book by Thomas Merton about the US responsibility for dropping the first atomic bomb. Asks if LP could send a statement they could use to publicize Merton’s book. Handwritten notes on back contain equations. [Filed under LP Correspondence, L: Correspondence 1961-1963 Box 232, Folder 232.2] 
  • Letter from David Pressman to LP RE: Thanks LP for agreeing to look at his paper and hopes LP will agree that it should be submitted to the Proceedings. [Letter from LP to Pressman May 25, 1962] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.4]
  • Letter from Elaine Jacoby to LP RE: Tells LP that she is working on a research project for the National Council of Jewish Women on the pros and cons of the proposed Federal Government fallout shelter program. Asks a few questions of LP related to his ideas about it. [Letter from LP to Jacoby May 26, 1962] [Filed under J: Correspondence 1933-1934, 1936-1964 Box 192, Folder 192.28]
  • Letter from Ellamae W. Naylor, City Club of Portland, to LP. RE: Thanks him for providing and outstanding program. Encloses mail for him. [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1962) Box #1962s Folder #1962s.13] 
  • Letter from Franklin Farman to LP RE: Thanks LP for his help in the preparation of a scientific exhibit on “The Hereditary Factor in Renal Disease.” Encloses some statements by experts including one by LP that he would like to use with LP’s permission. [Letter from LP to Farman May 23, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, F: Correspondence, 1957 - 1966 Box 129, Folder 129.6] 
  • Letter from J. Walter Renner to LP RE: Thanks LP for LP’s kindness to his daughter, Robin, and her friends. Discusses being hospitalized for most of the year and his illness. Says he admires LP’s fight against testing and that he does what he can to help. [Letter from LP to Renner April 9, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, R: Correspondence, 1960-1963 Box 342 Folder 342.3]
  • Letter from LP to Eugene Rabinowitch, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. RE: Encloses a letter entitled “Scientists in Politics”. Asks that it be published without delay with a suitable retraction and apology. Is not interested in his excuses.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Typescripts, Correspondence: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1962-1963: Box # 3.058 Folder #58.8]
  • Letter from LP to H. J. Muller, Indiana University. RE: Encloses a letter to the editor of Saga. Asks for a retraction by the magazine and Muller to be published. Is looking forward to hearing from him. [Letter from Muller May 25, 1962] [Filed under LP Biographical: Correspondence, Articles: Hermann J. Muller, 1962: Box #3.058 Folder #58.3]
  • Letter from LP to Lord Bertrand Russell RE: Encloses a letter of congratulations to Russell on his 90th birthday and a letter to Russell as Chairman of the Pugwash Conference stating that he will not be attending. Discusses his recent demonstration and dinner at the White House. Says that there has been a statement saying that the U.S. atmospheric tests will not be more than 20 megatons and will probably be the last atmospheric tests and attributes this to the peace movement. Talks about his libel suits. [Filed under LP Correspondence, Russell, Bertrand, 1955-1967 Box 337 Folder 337.6]
  • Letter from LP to Ralph Schoenman, RE: LP is enclosing a copy of his letter to Russell.  LP and AHP are sorry that they will not be able to celebrate his 90th birthday because they can not make it to Europe at present due to other obligations.   [Schoenman’s letter March 30, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am-Co), Box #4.010, Folder #10.13]
  • Letter from LP to Willard F. Libby RE: Tells Libby that AHP seemed to be pleased to have had him as a dinner partner at the White House. Updates Libby on Peter’s work and contact information. Discusses the possibility of visiting Libby’s lab, and asks if Libby would like him to give a seminar talk. [Filed under LP Correspondence, L: Individual Correspondence (Libby - London) Box 217, Folder 217.2] 
  • Letter from LP to the editor of Saga RE: LP requests that a damaging statement be corrected. [Newspaper Article: “Letters: Correction” May 4, 1962] [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1962: Box #1962n, Folder #1962n.18] 
  • Letter from Max B. Miller to LP RE: Encloses information about Mr. Green who is running against Richard Richards. Says they have no illusions about winning the primary, but are rather the goal is one of education. Asks if LP would be willing to endorse Mr. Green. [Letter from LP to Miller May 12, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Correspondence 1962-1964 Box 259, Folder 259.1] 
  • Letter from Mrs. Frank Cinquemani to LP RE: Cinquemani asks LP for his opinion on calcium tablets for use in combating Strontium-90.  Cinquemani asks if there is any proof that the fluoridation of water can increase the absorption of Strontium-90.  [Letter from LP to Cinquemani May 24, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Strontium-90, 1961-1963: Box #7.014, Folder #14.17]
  • Letter from Ruth Barber to LP, RE: Barber is a New Zealander who wants to know how much fallout New Zealand is likely to receive.  Barber also asks LP if she should give her children extra calcium and iodine to counter the effects of fallout.  [Letter from LP May 26, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1962-1965), Box #7.008, Folder #8.10]
  • Letter from Shirley Sirota Rosenberg to LP RE: Tells LP that she is a freelance writer researching Epilepsy for a prominent national magazine. Asks if LP thinks that Epilepsy would fall into the category of ailments whose control is possible within the next decade. Also says she is doing research on Eugenics, and asks if LP could suggest any writings in the field. [Letter from LP to Rosenberg May 24, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, R: Correspondence, 1960-1963 Box 342 Folder 342.3]  
  • Letter from W. Ralph Singleton to LP RE: Explains to LP that he has written a textbook on Elementary Genetics and would like very much to use the picture published in SCIENCE, 1949, by LP, Itano, and Wells on the electrophoretic differentiation of normal hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin. Says the book is going to the press soon and asks if it would be possible to get a prompt answer. [Letter from LP to Singleton May 24, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Box 382 Folder 382.1] 
  • Newspaper clipping: “Dr. Linus Pauling Visits Former Oswego Home” Lake Oswego Review. [Filed under LP Biographical: Scrapbooks: Box #6.008 Folder #8.281]
  • Newspaper clipping: “Facts on Fall-Out,” Pasadena Star News. [Filed under LP Correspondence, B: Individual Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 40 Folder 40.1] 
  • Newspaper clipping: “Summer on Pauling” Star News. [Filed under LP Biographical: Scrapbooks: Box #6.008 Folder #8.273]
  • Newspaper clipping: “This Is THE Spot” The Columbian. [Filed under LP Biographical: Notebook: Real Property, Family History: Box #5.057 Folder #57.2]
  • Statement by LP “Scientists in Politics”  [Filed under LP Biographical: Typescripts, Correspondence: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1962-1963: Box # 3.058 Folder #58.8]