Letter from Linus Pauling to J. D. Bernal. Page 1. September 28, 1962
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  • Check from AHP to The Boroughs & Associates for $122.00. [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] 
  • Check from Anna Leskela for $49.25. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] 
  • Check from LP to Annual Reviews, Inc., for $7.28. [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, 1961-1963: Box #4.077 Folder #77.1] 
  • Check from LP to Boroughs & Associates for $93.70. [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, 1961-1963: Box #4.077 Folder #77.1] 
  • Check from LP to Documentary Books, Inc. for $4.95. [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, 1961-1963: Box #4.077 Folder #77.1] 
  • Letter from LP to A.J. Muste, RE: LP has decided not to intervene with the Soviet Peace Committee about Dr. Earlye Reynolds.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am-Co), Box #4.010, Folder #10.11]
  • Letter from LP to Allan F. Saunders RE: Suggests that Professor Turnbull apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship in Art. Says that he has written the Foundation to ask that a application be sent to Turnbull. Suggests the Turnbull make a somewhat more detailed proposal for the application. [Letter from Saunders to LP September 24, 1962] [Letter from Saunders to LP November 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, T:  Correspondence 1956-1963 Box 411, Folder 411.7]
  • Letter from LP to Arthur B. Krim RE: Says that he will not be able to attend the Weizmann dinner on December 13 due to a conflicting engagement. [Letter from Krim to LP September 21, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, W: Organizational Correspondence (Wa - Wo) Box 441, Folder 441.4] 
  • Letter from LP to Arthur Bone, RE: LP estimates that the total number of children damaged by Thalidomide is around 10,000.  LP is enclosing a reprint from Frontier magazine which mentions Carbon-14 from fallout and it effects on children.  Overall, LP does not think that the abnormalities and deaths attributed to Thalidomide have been caused by fallout.  [Letter from Bone September 15, 1962] [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 Dr. H. Beyer RE: Says that he was regretfully unable to arrange things so he could make the meeting of the Chemische Gesellschaft from November 21 to 24 1962. [Letter from LP to Beyer August 29, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, B: Individual Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 40 Folder 40.1] 
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Rienäcker RE: Says he was not able to arrange his schedule in a way that would permit him to visit the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenchaften. [Letter from LP to Rienäcker August 29, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, D: Correspondence 1960-1966 Box 99, Folder 99.3] 
  • Letter from LP to Frank Toole RE: Recommends Melvin Calvin, Sidney Fox, and Matt Meselson for the Brian Priestmann lectures. Briefly discusses each person’s work. [Letter from Toole to LP September 21, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, T: Individual Correspondence (Thant - Toole) Box 407, Folder 407.8] 
  • Letter from LP to Gordon N. Ray RE: Asks if Ray will send an application for the Guggenheim awards to Professor Murray Turnbull. Says he can not serve as a reference for Turnbull, however, because his acquaintance with him is very slight, but he has a high opinion of him. [Letter from Ray to LP September 15, 1962] [Letter from Saunders to LP September 24, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, T:  Correspondence 1956-1963 Box 411, Folder 411.7]
  • Letter from LP to H. B. Bennett, H. B. Bennett Travel Agency RE: Tells Bennett that a number of changes had to be made to his and AHP’s travel schedule during their trips to the Eastern United States and Canada. Encloses six unused tickets for reimbursement. [Filed under LP Correspondence, T:  Correspondence 1956-1963 Box 411, Folder 411.7]
  • Letter from LP to Herbert T. Rosenfeld RE: Says that he will not be able to accept the invitation to speak in San Francisco on October 19 due to the number of engagements he has already made. [Letter from Rosenfeld to LP September 15, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, R: Individual Correspondence (Rosbaud - Rundle) Box 336 Folder 336.2]
  • Letter from LP to James G. Foulks RE: Informs Foulks that he has sent Perry’s list of instruments and a request that $9,000 be transferred by Caltech to the University of British Columbia to Robert B. Gilmore. When the exact accountings are given to LP a final adjustment can be made and possibly another couple hundred dollars available to pay for Perry’s instruments. [Letter from Foulks to LP September 17, 1962] [Filed under LP Science: (R.W. Lippman Memorial Fund, 1949-1962), Box #14.040, Folder #40.15] 
  • Letter from LP to Jay Morris RE: Thanks Morris for sending the photographs taken at the AHA meeting and for inviting him to be a speaker at the West Coast Humanist Conference in October. Says that he will not be able to attend. [Filed under LP Correspondence, H: Correspondence, 1961-1962 Box 168 Folder 168.2] 
  • Letter from LP to Jerome Davis. RE: Pleased to see the invitation. Lists people whom he would like to be invited to the ceremony. [Letter from Davis September 21, 1962] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1962) Box #1962s Folder #1962s.20] 
  • Letter from LP to Jerry Donohue RE: Says that he thinks it would be worthwhile for Donohue to publish his paper on the relation between atomic radii in close-packed and body-centered cubic structures. Suggests that Donohue use a different equation than his bond-length equation. Talks about his dissatisfaction with his equation. [Letter from Donohue to LP September 17, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, D: Individual Correspondence (Dil - Dyson) Box 96 Folder 96.10] 
  • Letter from LP to John Golden RE: Says that he is interested in the idea of televising the debate. Asks if the debate would still be held before an audience. Says his decision about it would depend on the details of the arrangement. [Letter from Golden to LP September 27, 1962] [Letter from Golden to LP October 9, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, G: Correspondence, 1962-1965 Box 142 Folder 142.1] 
  • Letter from LP to John J. Banewicz, Southern Methodist University. RE: Has decided to come to Dallas for the ACS Regional Meeting. [Letter from Banewicz September 20, 1962] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1962: Box # 1962s Folder #1962s.27] 
  • Letter from LP to Jose Gonzalez RE: Apologizes for not being able to prepare a paper for the first issue of the review GEA. [Letter from Gonzalez and Palomo to LP August 3, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, G: Correspondence, 1962-1965 Box 142 Folder 142.1] 
  • Letter from LP to L. N. Mulay RE: Gives Mulay permission to quote from his letter to Mulay. Says that he does not think Mulay is justified in saying that Mulay has a strong case in favor of a single bond between each ring and the iron atom. Discusses why he thinks this. Tells Mulay that he doesn’t have any special suggestion to make about other universities. [Letter from Mulay to LP September 24, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Correspondence 1962-1964 Box 259, Folder 259.1] 
  • Letter from LP to Lars Strachan RE: Tells Strachan that he looked over the material about atomic models with interest, but that he has not been able to evaluate them on the basis of the photographs and limited information accompanying them. Says that they may be unsatisfactory in not providing a satisfactory representation of bond orbitals. Says he is glad that Strachan is working on the problem of models. [Letter from Strachan to LP September 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Box 382 Folder 382.1] 
  • Letter from LP to Otto Roth, RE: LP thinks that Roth will be interested in the results of the Oslo Conference and he is sending a copy of the Oslo Statement. [Roth’s letter August 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 LP to Robert B. Gilmore RE: Asks that the sum of $9,000 be transferred to the University of British Columbia to help Dr. Perry pay for his purchases. LP explains the totals of Perry’s instruments in U.S. and Canadian dollars. [Memo from Gilmore to LP October 11, 1962] [Filed under LP Science: (R.W. Lippman Memorial Fund, 1949-1962), Box #14.040, Folder #40.15] 
  • Letter from LP to Steve Rubicz, RE: LP is sorry to say that he will not be able to speak at the University of Washington during the upcoming school year. [Letter from Rubicz August 15, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, St-Wa), Box #4.015, Folder #15.1]  
  • Letter from LP to The Manager, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, RE: LP explains that when the company installed a new telephone pole at the north west corner of his property in Pasadena, the survey crew removed a two inch iron pipe that marked the boundary of their property. He asks that the company please come and replace the pipe. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.039, Item 39.84]
  • Letter from LP to Walter P. Coombs RE: Thanks Coombs for the invitation to the luncheon in honor of Dr. Seaborg, but says he will be away from Southern California on October 9 and is unable to accept the invitation. [Letter from Coombs to LP September 26, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, L: Correspondence 1961-1963 Box 232, Folder 232.2]