Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred J. Allen. February 18, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Letter from Peter Pauling to Linda Pauling, RE: Peter thanks Linda for her letter and says he will send the reports tomorrow. He asks her to send him a Xerox of Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 34. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family, Box 5.044, Folder 44.5]
• Check from LP to Yourselves RE: $300.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP February 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Letter from A. C. Spectorsky to LP RE: Spectorsky requests that LP respond to the enclosed article “Playboy Interview: Bertrand Russell” in some way for the Letters to the Editor Column.  [Article “Playboy Interview: Bertrand Russell” 03-63] [Filed under LP Biographical: Material from LP’s Desk at C.I.T., 1958-1964 Box #1.034, Folder #34.3]
• Letter from A.E. Rule, Santa Anita Pools & Maintenance, to LP RE: Gives LP a motor bid for a new motor and to re-build an existing motor. [Letter from LP to Rule February 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1962-1963), #382.2] 
• Letter from Dr. Charles D. Barnett, Book Review Editor, American Journal of Mental Deficiency, to LP RE: Inquires LP of his interest in reviewing a recent publication entitled: Neurochemistry: The Chemistry of the Brain and Nerve.[Letter from LP to Barnett March 6, 1963]  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #14.2]
• Letter from Everett C. Hughes, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University, to LP RE: Requests LP to speak at one of the plenary sessions of the American Sociological Association’s meeting this August. [Letter from LP to Hughes February 20, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #14.2]  
• Letter from Henry Allen Moe to LP RE: Writes LP regarding George B. Kauffman’s Fellowship application. Moe suggests that Kauffman accept the National Science Foundation Fellowship and withdraw his application for a Guggenheim Fellowship. [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975). Box #14.015, Folder #15.9] 
• Letter from Joan R. Harris to LP RE: “7.0   hours Manuscript typing at $3.00/hour   $21.00.”  Note in top right “College Chem.” and “Paid 8 March ‘63.” [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: C.I.T. Assorted Financial Materials, 1945-1965 Box #1.032, Folder #32.6]
• Letter from Kenneth R. Malek, M.D., to LP RE: Extends and invitation for him to speak before the Montecito Lions Club. [Letter from LP to Malek March 4, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2] 
• Letter from LP [Signed Linda Hopkins] to Dennis Flanagan, Editor, Scientific America, RE: Asks Flanagan if he’d be interested in publishing an article on new ideas about the theory of general anesthesia. Provides background information on the matter, and says that Catchpool and Cherkin would do an excellent job an article that the readers of Scientific America would enjoy. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (John Francis Catchpool), #62.5]  
• Letter from LP [Signed Linda Hopkins] to Professor Murray J. Fraser, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Manitoba, RE: LP regrets to say that he will no be able to participate in the symposium on protein structure. He says, that his attorney has asked him to refrain from making any commitments at that time due to a pending law suit. [Letter from Fraser to LP February 14, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]        
• Letter from LP to Francis Crick. [Filed under LP Science: (Nucleic Acid Papers, 1951-1963), Box #9.001, Folder #1.50] 

  16 February 1963

  Dr. F.H. Crick

  Unit for Molecular Biology

  Cavendish Laboratory

  Cambridge, ENGLAND

  Dear Crick:

  I am writing about the matter of the three hydrogen bonds between guanine and cytosine. A man giving a seminar on the nucleic acids here a few days ago used the structures with two hydrogen bonds, and said that he supposed that you were still supporting it, as shown, for example, by your article in the Scientific American, which was published after the publication of the paper by Professor Corey and me, in which we pointed out that guanine and cytosine form three hydrogen bonds with one another. He asked me if it did not seem, from your publications, that you and Watson had doubt about the third hydrogen bond.

  I trust that you are going to introduce the third hydrogen bond in your published Nobel lecture. I am writing just to be sure that, through oversight, you do not continue to refer to guanine and cytosine as forming two hydrogen bonds with one another.

  Cordially yours,

  Linus Pauling:lh

  cc: Professor J.D. Watson

  Professor R.B. Corey

• Letter from LP to Fred J. Allen, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University. [Letter from Allen to LP February 13, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Fred Allen), #5.5] 

  Linus Pauling

  3500 Fairpoint Street, Pasadena, California

  18 February 1963

  Professor Fred J. Allen

  Department of Chemistry

  Purdue University

  Lafayette, Indiana

  Dear Fred:

  Ava Helen and I were happy to hear from you. It is fine that you have had such a pleasant trip last November and December. Also I am indeed interested to know that the drug Trilafon is is having a good effect on David. I wish that I understood why different ataractic drugs are valuable for different people.

  Ava Helen and I have been busy, as usual. We went to Belgium and Norway in November, and then back to England in January. I took part in a Solvay Congress in Brussels. Then we were invited to lunch (just Ava Helen and me) by Queen Elizabeth, grandmother of the present King of Belgium. She wanted to talk with us about the peace movement in the United States - - she is active in the peace movement in Belgium. In Oslo we spoke at a peace meeting in the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Our trip to England was to attend a peace conference in Oxford and another meeting in London. I had a cold before going, which dragged on, and then Ava Helen got it, so that she had to go to bed when we got home, on 11 January, and has been in bed for about a month. She is just recovering now. We hope to go to the ranch day after tomorrow, for a week of rest.

  Cordially,

  Linus Pauling:lh

• Letter from LP to Henry Maust RE: Apologizes for the delay in responding to Maust’s letter. Says he has thought about the things Maust mentioned and he is sending some material under separate cover. [Letter from Maust to LP September 6, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Correspondence 1962-1964 Box 259, Folder 259.1] 
• Letter from LP to Homer A. Jack, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, RE: Thanks Jack for his February 13 letter.  Questions why Jack made the statements he did on January 4 in Oxford. [Letter from LP to Jack February 8, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(Jack, Homer A.) #188.1]
• Letter from LP to Irvine H. Page, Modern Medicine, RE: Shares that he and his wife were pleased to receive the sketches. [Letter from Page to LP February 3, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Modern Medicine, 1958-1959, 1962-1963, 1976, 1980, 1984), #254.13]
• Letter from LP to Jim Watson RE: LP sends Watson a copy of the letter (LP to Crick February 18, 1963) that he sent to Crick pertaining to the three hydrogen bonds between guanine and cytosine. [Watson to LP March 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Science: (Nucleic Acid Papers, 1951-1963), Box #9.001, Folder #1.50]                                                       
• Letter from LP to Mrs. A. G. Gawley RE: Says that he remembers Gawley’s father well from Washington High School.  Describes his memories of Mr. Yoder. [Letter from Gawley to LP February 14, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence) #142.2]
• Letter from Matt Thomson to LP, RE: Thomson thanks LP for his letter and notes that he thinks it will be possible for LP and AHP to get a full eight hours of sleep each night so that the schedule does not become overwhelming for them.  Thomson will send LP a final itinerary soon for the speaking tour.  [LP’s letter February 1, 1963] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am), Box #4.009, Folder #9.4]
• Letter from Rudi Nussbaum to LP RE: Nussbaum remembers LP speaking to students at Portland State College and encloses an article which he asks LP to comment on. [Letter from LP to Nussbaum March 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: P: Correspondence, 1960-1963: Box #314 Folder #314.4] 
• Newspaper Clipping: “U.S. Chief Delegate to Appeal For Support of Test Ban Talks” [Newspaper and journalist unknown].  Handwritten note in top right “18 Feb 1963".  One paragraph circled. [Filed under LP Biographical: Material from LP’s Desk at C.I.T., 1958-1964 Box #1.034, Folder #34.9]
• Note to Edward G. Flynn, Western Director of CARE, RE: Declines the invitation to a luncheon honoring Harold S. Miner, President of CARE. LP not be in Southern California at the time. [Invitation from Flynn to LP No-Date] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence) #129.7]