Letter from Linus Pauling to Cornelis B. van Niel. April 29, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to A.A.U.N. RE: $5.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Defenders of Wildlife RE: $5.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Pacific Telephone RE: $16.20.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Thatcher Chemical Laboratory RE: $5.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to the Southern California Edison Company RE: $22.63.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to the Southern California Gas Co. RE: $17.09.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from LP to Bennett Travel Agency RE: $641.03.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from LP to Mrs. Linda Hopkins RE: $100.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from LP to Phil Cullom RE: $50.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Letter from Francis Heisler, Heisler & Stewart Attorneys at Law, to LP RE: Applauds Eugene Rabinowich for finally agreeing with LP’s views on nuclear weapons testing. Says an appeal has been filed to the U. S. Court of Appeals of the D. C. Circuit.  Discusses the lawsuit and the possibility of taking the case to the International Court of Justice. [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963), #169.1]
• Letter from LP to J.D. Bernal, RE: LP is sorry that neither he nor AHP will be able to accept the invitation to be present as observers at the meeting of the World Council of Peace in Warsaw on June 8th through the 12th.  LP and AHP have a conflicting engagement.  [Letter from Bernal April 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo-Yo), Box #4.017, Folder #17.1]
• Letter from LP to Phil Cullom, c/o Ralph D. Haskin, Salmon Creek Ranger Station, RE: LP has enclosed a check for $50.00, to pay Cullom's salary for April. He has subtracted $70.00 from Cullom's customary salary in payment of Cullom's loan, after LP lent him $480.00 earlier in the month. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.039, 39.22]
• Letter from LP to Professor C. B. Van Niel. [Letter from Schaefer to LP April 24, 196363, letter from Van Niel to Schaefer May 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1960-1992, No Date) #440.4]

  29 April 1963

  Professor C. B. Van Niel

  Hopkins Marine Station

  Pacific Grove, California

  Dear Kees:

  I was interested to read your review of Umbreit'e Modern Microbiology, in Science for January, part because I bad found some errors in the first edition of Oginsky and Umbreit and in part because of say connection with W. H. Freeman and Company, which published the book.

  Only recently have I had a chance to examine the book. I found some grammatical errors and other errors, such as you mention in your review, but not nearly so may as I had expected to find after having read your review, which was perhaps more strongly critical than was deserved by the book.

  I am writing now because I learned just a few days ago from Mr. Stanley Schaefer, the President of W. H. Freeman and Company, that you had not answered his letter of 17 December 1962. You probably misplaced the letter when it reached you, just before the Christmas holidays.

  In the letter Mr. Schaefer asked if you would give permission to show the review to the author, before its publication in Science. This question is no longer significant, because the review has been published. He then said "And incidentally, you mentioned that about one-third of the pages in your copy of the book bear critical remarks. Would you let us have this copy for further documentation to the author? We would, of course, return it after it had served its purpose, and we would also send you a fresh copy immediately."

  Earlier in the letter Mr. Schaefer had said that the W. H. Freeman and Company could ask the author to rewrite the book at once so as to pass the most critical examination.

  I am sure that your remarks, which number about 200, I judge from the statement in your review, would be useful to the author.

  Mr. Schaefer has felt hesitant about writing to you a second time. I have accordingly decided to write to you, to rewind you about the request in his letter of 17 December, and to suggest that you lend your annotated book to him.

  Please give our best regards to Mimi.

  Sincerely,

  Linus Pauling:lh

  Bcc: Stanley Schaefer

• Letter from LP to Ralph D. Haskin, Salmon Creek Ranger Station, RE: Sends the yellow Registration Card for the truck and will bring the license plates to him when he goes to the ranch.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Box # 4.047 Folder # 47.1]
• Letter from Menachem S. Arnoni to LP RE: Requests LP’s response to an article written by Homer A. Jack about charges made by LP and AHP regarding his motives and those of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. [Letter from Jack to Arnoni April 26, 1963, Letter from LP to Arnoni April 30, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15] 
• Letter from Philip Kerby, Frontier, to M. S. Arnoni RE: Responds to Arnoni’s representations of the Russell article. [Letter from Arnoni to Kerby May 2, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15]
• Letter from Reuben Wood, The George Washington University, to LP RE: Wood asks LP if it is ethically okay to inform LP if L. Ron Hubbard passed the class about atomic and molecular physics. [Letter from Wood to LP April 22, 196363, letter from LP to Wood May 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Individual Correspondence (Williams, J. W. -Wyman) #438.7] 
• Letter from Rudolph S. Hearns to LP RE: Acknowledges LP’s letter.  Says that he used the letter in a lecture to the Eastern Association of Handwriting Analysts on the handwritings of Nobel Prize winners.  [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]
• Letter from William Y. Turner to LP RE: Explains to LP why he has nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. [Letter from LP to Turner May 10, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963) #411.8]