Letter from Linus Pauling to Howard Berg. May 16, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Letter from Crellin Pauling to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 5.048, Folder 48.8]

  Dear Peter:

  Thank you for your letter. Perhaps so, Linus sent us a nice letter some time ago, and I agree that he doesn't appear too happy.

  I have sent off your letter and a check to Geodesic Structures. I trust they will let me know if everything is not in order. I shall send the material on to you as soon as it comes.

  I don’t think that I will get to Europe this summer. No money. The NIH is getting tight as far as overseas travel is concerned. However, I have submitted an abstract to the Genetics Society Meetings, which will be at Amherst, Mass, at the end of August. My fellowship has a little money for going to meetings in this country.

  I hope that you can come over during the summer. Mama has talked about having another reunion if you do. That would be fun.

  I have missed a couple weeks of work with a bad ear infection. Fortunately it is clearing up, I think.

  We are having marvelous spring weather. Temperature in the 70’s. It is frustrating as hell to be ill.

  What is the status of the Merc? Linus mumbled something about buying it back, and also said mom had an offer of $3000 for it. Lucy and I have had dreams of acquiring it sometime, but I’m afraid not very realistic dreams. But then, dreams aren't supposed to be realistic.

  Much love -

  Crellin

• Letter from Frank Harris to LP RE: Harris writes for the Unitarian club at the University of British Colombia and requests that LP give a speech at the University during the 1963-1964 academic year. [Letter from LP to Harris August 2, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (U: Correspondence, 1936-1970), #421.21]       
• Letter from James E. Walling, Head, Membership Division, The New York Academy of Sciences RE: Informs that he was sent an invitation to Membership in the Academy but never received a reply from him. [Letter from LP to Walling May 28, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2] 
• Letter from John Raeburn Green, Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold, Attorneys at Law, to Charles M. Blair, President, Petrolite Corporation, bc. LP, RE: Thanks Blair for his letter of May 15, 1963 and discusses the court date. [Letter from Green to Blair, May 9, 1963] [LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1967: Box #3.003, Folder #3.5] 
• Letter from LP [Signed by Helen Gilrane] to Dr. H. Beyer, Chemische Gesellschaft, Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, RE: Thanks Beyer for inviting him to participate in the 1963 meeting of the Chemical Society of the German Democratic Republic. Declines the invitation. [Letter from Beyer to LP May 9, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2]  
• Letter from LP to Arthur W. Adamson RE: Requests that Adamson retract his defamatory statements regarding LP made in the Daily Trojan.  Also states that, contrary to Adamson’s remarks, LP believes in morality. [Filed under LP Biographical: Legal: Assorted Legal Disputes, 1963-1965: Box #3.058, Folder #59.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. R.P. Little, Pens. Horiauben, RE: Approves of his idea to nominate Bertrand Russell. Informs that he does not have the right to make nominations unless he has received that Nobel Prize, not other Nobel Prizes. [Note from Little to LP May 11, 1963][Filed under LP Correspondence: (Nobel Prize Nominations, 1963), #280.6]  
• Letter from LP to H. Schäffner RE: Thanks him for the letter.  Answer his question about whether it is best to learn about the general concepts of chemistry or one specific part of chemistry. [Letter from Schäffner to LP May 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1962-1963) #382.2]
• Letter from LP to Helen Merrell Lynd RE: Tells Lynd that he was shocked by the action of Mr. Warburg at the Peace Award Meeting, and explains that Warburg was badly informed about him because of news reports. Encloses his correspondence with Chemical and Engineering News to show how even that journal was able to deviate from the facts about him. [Letter from Lynd to LP November 22, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Box 382 Folder 382.1] 
• Letter from LP to Howard Berg. [Memo from LP to Wulf May 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2] 

  16 may 1963

  Mr. Howard Berg

  Dunster House H 22

  Harvard College

  Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

  Dear Mr. Berg:

  I was pleased to receive your letter and to learn about your work and your plans. I congratulate you on having been elected a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. This will give you a good opportunity to follow your own interests.

  Also, I am grateful to you for describing the experiments with the atomic hydrogen maser that you are carrying on. It is fine that some powerful new methods are being developed.

  I shall be interested to see what field you finally decide to concentrate on. I think that high-energy physics is very interesting, but so competitive, and so difficult for me to follow, that I have tended to ignore it. Moreover, I like to do things on my own. Molecular Biology is progressing very well. Experimental work in the field is apt to be very laborious, although occasional experiments that are simple and brilliant are carried out.

  I have been interested to read your comparison of the house system at Harvard with that of the California Institute of Technology. In past years I have visited the Harvard houses several times – once or twice at the invitation of Ronald Ferry, who was master of one of the houses. I shall try to accept your open invitation to Dunster at some time in the future, although now I have no plan to come to Cambridge

  I think that the annual report will be out in about two months. I have asked Mrs. Wulf to send a copy to you when it is available.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:hpg

• Letter from LP to Katherine J. Holtom RE: LP desires Holtom to work during the summer of 1963 at C.I.T.  LP discusses Holtom’s salary, duties, and supervisor. [Note from Holtom to LP May 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]
• Letter from LP to Miss Yuet-May Huang, New Asia College, RE: Explains that he has retired as chairman of his division at Cal Tech and is not a member of the committee that appoints teaching assistants.  Says he thinks she should accept her admission to University of California at Berkeley.  Explains the distance between Cal Tech and UC Berkeley. [Note from Huang to LP May 8, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor Defay RE: LP apologizes for not returning the correction of his interventions at the Solvay Congress.  The text has accidentally been thrown away and he requests another one to correct. [Letter from Professor Defay to LP dated May 13, 1963 and Letter from LP to Professor Defay dated July 1, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Organizational Correspondence. (So-Su)), #376.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor J.D. Roberts RE: “Appointment of Miss Katherine J. Holtom”.  LP recommends Holtom’s appointment as research assistant beginning July 1, 1963.  Discusses salary and Holtom’s intended work and qualifications.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]
• Letter from M.S. Arnoni to Alfred Hassler, The Fellowship of Reconciliation, RE: Thanks Hassler for his letter. Responds to the various questions he brought up. [Letter from Hassler to Arnoni May 6, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15] 
• Letter from Menachem S. Arnoni to LP RE: Thanks LP for his advice with respect to Mr. Kerby. Says he is grateful that LP suggested the reprinting of his article “Genetic Effects of Weapons Tests.” Discusses the lunch meeting between Arnoni and Homer Jack. Refers to the new weekly, and says that they are presently working on the pilot issue of the article. [Letter from LP to Arnoni May 7, 1963, Letter from LP to Arnoni and Kerby May 13, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15].
• Letter from Professor J. I. Fernandez-Alonso to LP RE: Fernandez-Alonso reminds LP about the paper for the Spanish Journal of Physics and Chemistry. [Letter from Fernandez-Alonso to LP March 9, 196363, Letter from LP to Fernandez-Alonso May 28, 1963] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1964), Box #1964a, Folder #1964a.4]  
• Letter from Ralph Schoenman to LP, RE: Schoenman thanks LP for his excellent essay, and apologizes for not answering LP's letter sooner- he says he has been in the Middle East representing Lord Russell. He doesn't wish for LP to pay for their recent phone call but remarks on his kindness in raising the point, and adds that Lord Russell's financial circumstances are difficult, and that they are trying to raise funds in order to allow his foreign activities to continue. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.002]
• Letter from Robert H. Maybury, University of Redlands, to LP RE: Informs that he thought his defense was outstanding and his point was clear in the article in Time. [Letter from LP to Maybury May 17, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2]
• Memo from LP to Mrs. Wulf  RE: States that Berg would like a copy of the annual report. [Letter from LP to Berg May 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2]
• Note from Susan Lampert to LP RE: Asks him to send her information on the nuclear test ban for her debate speech in her eighth grade public speaking class. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.3]