Letter from Linus Pauling to James L. Liverman. Page 1. July 24, 1962
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Activity Listings

  • Handwritten note from Johanna Ginmore to AHP, RE: Thanks AHP for forwarding the letter from Annalee Stewart, and says she is not staying in St. Louis for a few days and plans to be in contact with Washington.  Also thanks AHP and LP for the nice time she spent with them in their beautiful home. [Filed under AHP materials re: Women and Peace: (Correspondence: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1959-1981), Box#4.001, Folder 1.1]
  • Letter from George P. Voss to LP RE: Tells LP that they are preparing a facts booklet for speakers and writers for the 25th Anniversary March of Dimes campaing in January, 1963. Asks permission to include the enclosed quotations from LP’s comments at the First Inter-American Conference on Congenital Defects. [Letter from LP to Voss August 3, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, N: Correspondence 1957-1964 Box 288, Folder 288.6]
  • Letter from James G. Foulks to LP RE: Thanks LP for the letter he forwarded to him and hopes the problem will be solved. Agrees to LP’s arrangements for the use of the Richard W. Lippman Fund but will take no steps to implement the arrangement until the problems have been cleared up. [Letter from LP to Foulks July 12, 1962] [Filed under LP Science: (R.W. Lippman Memorial Fund, 1949-1962), Box #14.040, Folder #40.15] 
  • Letter from LP [signed by Linda Hopkins] to Helene R. Williams RE: Thanks Williams for pointing out the series of Rachel Carson essays to him. Says he agrees that pesticides are a serious threat, but that he does not think the threat is greater than that of nuclear testing. [Letter from Williams to LP July 23, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, W: Individual Correspondence, 1960-1962 Box 445 Folder 445.3]  
  • Letter from LP [signed by Linda Hopkins] to Jill Thackray RE: Says he was pleased to receive her letter and explains that he is using his intellect to understand the nature of the world in which we live. Tells her he is a Humanist interested in questions of morality and he is sending her an article by him on Humanism and Peace under separate cover. [Letter from Thackray to LP July 1, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, T:  Correspondence 1956-1963 Box 411, Folder 411.7]
  • Letter from LP [signed by Linda Hopkins] to Weldon W. Stromborn RE: Apologizes for having misled Stromborn by mentioning the new edition of Quantum Mechanics on which Martin Karplus is still working. Tells Stromborn that much work has been done on x-ray diffraction and the structure of crystals at Cal Tech and that he could look in the Acta Crystallographica for recent years. [Letter from Stromborn to LP February 11, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Box 382 Folder 382.1]
  • Letter from LP to C. V. Parkinson RE: Thanks Parkinson for his letter and tells him he is sending some material under separate cover. [Letter from Parkinson to LP June 26, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, P: Correspondence, 1960-1963 314, Folder 314.3]  
  • Letter from LP to Dorothy Speir RE: Thanks Speir for having sent him the slanderous newspaper clipping. Explains that it came when he was away from Pasadena and he was unable to write to the newspaper. Encloses an editorial that describes the trouble he is having with other newspapers. [Letter from Speir to LP March 12, 1962] [Letter from Speir to LP August 1, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Box 382 Folder 382.1] 
  • Letter from LP to E. W. R. Steacie, cc: Thomas Perry RE: Encloses the letter he sent to Lester Pearson and asks that Steacie do anything that he thinks would be helpful in ensuring the Perry is granted residence in Canada. [Letter from LP to Pearson July 18, 1962] [Letter from Wheaton to LP July 30, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, P: Individual Correspondence (Pais - Perry) Box 304, Folder 304.15]
  • Letter from LP to Frank Toole, cc: Thomas Perry RE: Encloses the letter he sent to Lester Pearson and asks that Toole do anything that he thinks would be helpful in ensuring the Perry is granted residence in Canada. [Letter from LP to Pearson July 18, 1962] [Letter from Toole to LP August 8, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, P: Individual Correspondence (Pais - Perry) Box 304, Folder 304.15] 
  • Letter from LP to Harold E. Schmidt RE: Thanks him for the invitation to speak at the First Unitarian Church, but says that he already has so many speaking arrangements for the coming year that he doesn’t not have time. Tells Schmidt that he might be able to speak the following year. [Letter from Schmidt to LP June 27, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, F: Correspondence, 1957 - 1966 Box 129, Folder 129.6] 
  • Letter from LP to Priscilla Dunenfeld, RE: LP thinks that it is unlikely that an increase in radioactivity would cause an increase in population.  LP notes that it is also unlikely that radioactivity would have an impact on the development of identical twins. [Letter from Dunenfeld to LP September 20, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1962-1965: Box #7.008, Folder #8.10]
  • Letter from LP to Zachary Frank RE: Apologizes for the delay in answering his letter. Says that he has in a sense acted on Frank’s suggestion by filing suit in Moscow and Washington against the bomb tests with many other people in hope that the courts will do something. [Letter from Frank to LP October 22, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence, F: Correspondence, 1957 - 1966 Box 129, Folder 129.6] 
  • Letter from Lewis C. Green, to John K. Regan, U. S. District Court Federal Building. RE: Encloses a copy of a letter from LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Correspondence re: Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1962: Box # 3.003 Folder # 3.3] 
  • Letter from Linda Hopkins to Roger Dean Brittain RE: Acknowledges his letter to LP, and informs him that LP is out of town until early August, but he will see Brittain’s letter upon return. [Letter from Brittain to LP July 22, 1962] [Letter from LP to Brittain August 3, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, B: Individual Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 40 Folder 40.1] 
  • Letter from Linda Hopkins, Secretary to LP to Dr. Virginia Apgar, National Foundation RE: LP is presently not in town so Hopkins writes to acknowledge Apgar’s letter if July 24, 1962 and says that LP will see it when he returns. [Letter from Apgar to LP July 24, 1962] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1962), Box #1962a2, Folder #1962a2.1] 
  • Letter from M. P. Malkov to LP RE: Says that P. Kapitza is on vacation, but that he consulted the USSR Academy of Science about allowing Dr. Dombey to work at the Institute for Physical Problems. Tells LP that this could be arranged under the American-Soviet exchange program because in principal no objections exist. [Letter from LP to Kapitza May 23, 1962] [Letter from Hopkins to Dombey August 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, D: Correspondence 1960-1966 Box 99, Folder 99.3] 
  • Letter from R.T. Bond, Dodd, Mead & Company, to LP RE: Confirms that the correction LP pointed out will be made in the next printing of No More War! Asks if he has anything new in mind to stir things up. [Letter from LP to Bond July 23, 1962, Letter from LP to Bond October 1, 1962] [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
  • Letter from Therese F. Casgrain, Member of Initiating Committee, to Madame RE: Invites women to attend a Conference of Women to be held at the University of Montreal Sept. 14-15.  The theme of the Conference is “Search and Research for Peace...New Approaches.”  [Filed under AHP materials re: Peace and Women: (Correspondence, Assorted Materials re: Conference of Women for International Cooperation Year, sponsored by Voice of Women and Woman Strike for Peace, Montreal, Canada 1962), Box#4.004, Folder#4.3]
  • Letter from Ugo Pratolongo to LP RE: Says that the distinction established by Lipmann between “energy rich” and “energy poor” phosphoric bonds still remains obscure in its reasons and foundations. Discusses his research on the subject and his question about whether energy rich of poor phosphatic bonds can be considered simple or manifold hydrogen bonds. Asks for LP’s opinion. [Letter from LP to Pratolongo August 6, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, P: Correspondence, 1960-1963 314, Folder 314.3]  
  • Letter from Victoria Reynolds, Cornell University Press, to LP. RE: Encloses the annual report on the sale of his book. Will mail a check for the amount due soon. [Filed under LP Biographical: W. H. Freeman and Co. 1948-1975: Box #4.045 Folder #45.1]