May 28, 1963 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Check from LP to Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith RE: $2,500.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP June 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

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

28/5/63

Pete:

Your toys have shown up, and I have wrapped them for mailing. I will get them sent off this afternoon. Enclosed is the receipt from Geodestix. You are lucky indeed to get them, once Cheryl and Kristin saw them.

My work is suddenly going well. Some time ago I got some unexpected results that puzzled me for a while, but suddenly I had an idea that mad everything fit. It is a good feeling. It is about time things went well. I want to go for a post-doc with a guy name Hanawalt, in biophysics at Stanford. Here’s hoping.

Are you coming over this summer?

Much love,

Crellin

Letter from D. P. Grigoriev, Mineralogical Department, Mining Institute, to LP RE: Explains that he is collecting portraits of scientists and requests photographs of LP. Says the pictures are used in his writings. [Letter from LP to Grigoriev June 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence), #142.2]

Letter from Edwin Wilson to LP, RE: At the recent annual meeting of the American Humanist Association the members voted to send LP their warm greetings as he had been named 1961 Humanist of the Year. [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am), Box #4.009, Folder #9.5]

Letter from Francesca Agostini to LP RE: Encloses another copy of a letter the Quattrosoldi sent to LP with an articles of their’s. Since they never heard a reply they are wondering if he received it. Asks if LP will let her know something about it. [Letter from Executive Editor to LP November 15, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, Q: Correspondence, 1948-1995, No Date Box 324, Folder 324.9]

Letter from G. M. Canetta to Division of Research Grants, NIH, cc: LP, RE: Encloses renewal application dated May 20, 1963 for Grant No. GM 04276. Also encloses other necessary documents such as a transmittal letter from LP, publications, budget statement, etc. [Filed under LP Science: (United States Public Health Service: Assorted Grants, 1954-1964), Box #14.042. Folder #42.1]

Letter from George Tarjan, M.D., Superintendent and Medical Director, Pacific State Hospital, to LP RE: Refers to a letter about Professor Folling’s Honorary Membership in the American Association on Mental Deficiency. Says that the Council has confirmed his membership in the AAMD. [Letter from Tarjan to LP September 4, 196262, Letter from LP to Tarjan May 31, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence), #129.7]

Letter from J. P. Tonkoff, Tonkoff, Holst & Hopp, to LP RE: Briefly mentions the results of the trial, claiming the failure was due to “stupidity”. Requests LP tell Tonkoff how much he paid Hoague. [Letter from LP to Tonkoff, June 3, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. News Syndicate Co., Inc., 1961-1966, 1971: Box #3.020, Folder # 20.3]

Letter from Kurt Heyse to LP RE: Written in German. Requests an autographed photograph of LP for a picture collection. Attached is a handwritten greeting card written in German from Heyse. [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963), #169.1]

Letter from LP [Signed by Helen Gilrane] to Robert E. Densmore, Jr., RE: LP says he is pleased to hear of Densmore’s plans to continue his education. He says he has a good opinion of the University of California at Davis. He says he doesn’t know much about the Chemical Engineering program but he can support the idea of doing a years worth of graduate work. [Letter from Densmore to LP May 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence), #99.4]

Letter from LP to Dr. R.M. Featherstone, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, RE: Thanks Featherstone for the invitation to speak at the meeting for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. States, however, that he can not accept the invitation. [Letter from Featherstone to LP May 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #14.2]

Letter from LP to Ernest Weber, President, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, RE: Declines his invitation because he will not be in New York the night of their dinner. [Letter from Weber to LP May 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1963), #314.4]

Letter from LP to James E. Walling, Head, Membership Division, New York Academy of Sciences, RE: Informs that he has decided not to apply for membership because he is trying to cut down on activities. [Letter from Walling to LP May 26, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2]

Letter from LP to Mrs. W. G. Wirth RE: LP states that he was glad to see her at the jewelry store and encloses information about the Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial International Research Institute. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1963-1965), #446.1]

Letter from LP to Professor J. I. Fernandez-Alonso RE: LP informs Fernandez-Alonso that he will send the paper for the Spanish Journal soon and asks if Fernandez-Alonso would like LP to send him the joint paper of phosphorus pentachloride for publication in Spain. A note is a attached stating, “Dr Pauling, Your paper on Phosphorus Pentachloride due-when?” [Letter from Fernandez-Alonso to LP May 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1964), Box #1964a, Folder #1964a.4]

Letter from LP to W.B. Castle, M.D., Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston City Hospital. [Letter from W.B. Castle, M.D. to LP May 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: The Structure and Properties of Hemoglobin and the Nature of Sickle Cell Anemia, 1935-1978), Box #6.007, Folder #7.16]

28 May 1963

W.B. Castle, M.D.

Thorndike Memorial Laboratory

Harvard Medical School – Department of Medicine

Boston City Hospital

818 Harrison Avenue

Boston 18, Massachusetts

Dear Bill:

I have not as yet seen any statement in the press along the lines mentioned in your letter of 22 May to me.

I have a vivid memory of the evening when I first had the idea about abnormal hemoglobin molecules in relation to sickle-cell anemia. My memory is that you began discussing the disease after dinner, when the members of the Medical Advisory Committee were holding meetings in New York. I am sure that I have the date of the meeting in my diary, but I do not have the diary here. After you had discussed your interest in this disease, I then told you and the other members of the committee, who were, I think, all present, about the suggestion that your statements had made to me, to the effect that the disease might be really a disease of the hemoglobin molecule. The discussion was essentially as described by me in my Harvey Lecture, delivered April 29, 1954. One fact that I did not mention in my Harvey Lecture is that I asked you if you saw any reason why I should not check up on this idea, when I got back to Pasadena, by comparing the properties of hemoglobin from normal individuals and from sickle-cell anemia patients, and you said that you didn’t see any reason why I shouldn’t go ahead.

I do not remember the conversation on the train between Denver and Chicago. Perhaps it is better for me to say that I do not remember our discussing the matter on that train, but I do remember discussing the matter of Sherman’s work with you, after the original discussion, in the New York Hotel.

One reason why I think that original discussion was in New York, and not in Denver, is that my wife was not present at the dinner where we held the original discussion and at which, also, Alton Ochsner discussed some of his experiences as a surgeon, including an operation in

W.B. Castle, M.D.

28 May 1963

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which he cut an artery and had some trouble in sewing up – perhaps it was the aorta. My wife was with me in Denver, but was not with me at the time of the New York meeting of the Medical Research Committee.

With best regards,

Linus Pauling:hpg

Letter from Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman & Co., to LP RE: Explains that a company has applied for rights to publish a Dutch edition of General Chemistry. Presents several questions to be addressed before making a publishing agreement. [Letter from LP to Schaefer May 31, 1963] [Filed under LP Books: 1953b.2]

Letter from Stanley Schaefer, W. H. Freeman and Company, to LP RE: Thanks LP for reminding Van Niel to send a copy of Umbriet’s book. [Letter from Van Niel to Schaefer May 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1960-1992, No Date), #440.4]

Letter from William Sloan, President, Council of the American Association on Mental Deficiency, to Dr. Ivar A. Folling, University Hospital Clinical Laboratory, RE: Sloan informs Folling that at the last annual meeting the members of the Council of the American Association on Mental Deficiency voted unanimously to grant Folling membership. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence), #129.7]

Telegram from Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan to LP RE: Radhakrishnan invites LP to have breakfast with him in Los Angeles on June 9th while Radhakrishnan is visiting the United States [Letter from LP to Nehru June 3, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Individual Correspondence (Rabinowich - Randall): Box #326 Folder #326.3]

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