Letter from Linus Pauling to Saul Bernstein. June 11, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Letter from Peter Pauling to LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family, Box 5.044, Folder 44.5]

  University College London ● Gower Street WC1

  Professor Linus Pauling

  3500 Fairpoint Street,

  Pasadena, California,

  U.S.A

  11th June, 1963.

  Dear Pa,

  Thank you for your letter of 29th May. I am sorry you lost your suit and hope that you win on appeal.

  I think that we shall not be coming to California this summer, unfortunately. I have been notified nothing about my Research Grant from the National Institutes of Health* and while I think it has been approved and might well be given the Bureau of the Budget has frozen expenditure by the NIH in the United Kingdom due to the dollar exchange problem. This means that my grant, if any, is indefinitely delayed. There is nothing I can do about this because I did not cover myself by applying to several sources for support. At any rate I have given up plans to come to California for the summer.

  In your letter you replied to only one of my points. Is this because you think my second point is false, irrelevant, unimportant, or what? I think the implications of the concept are difficult and unclear, both for you and for me, though probably easier for you than for me, and I am experimenting at a little clarification.

  Well, I know it would be a good thing for me to take whatever time is necessary out in order to write a book with your help which would repay me so well. But I cannot, I am not a chemist, do not know how to write books and cannot be a second you. If I were to write a book, I would write a book on computing or something that I knew something about. I can, and I hope will, make contributions to the world and will make enough money to stay alive but probably not enough to really enjoy myself while doing it. I cannot serve as a means of getting things from your head on to paper, and I do not know enough to do it by myself.

  I do not understand why you feel it is so important that you be repaid on your investment rather than that I be repaid on your investment. Do you think it is bad for my soul? Or your soul?

  I might say that I love, like and admire you very much. I am rather sorry I shall not spend some time with you this summer because I think we would get along well, have a lot to say to each other, and enjoy each other.

  With love from,

  Peter

  *except informally by word of mouth that they like me.

• Check from AHP to McBride’s Animal Hospital RE: $74.30.  [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 Bertrand Russell to LP, RE: Russell thanks LP for signing the statement on the Middle East. He hopes that the Bulletin will publish it in their July issue, but says he has little confidence in them. [Filed under: LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.002]
• Letter from Eleanor Jackson Piel, Donner and Piel, Attorneys at Law, to LP RE: Discusses the motion for new trial and note the enclosure of a letter to Francis Hoague.  Letter from Piel to Hoague, June 4, 1963 attached. [Filed under LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. News Syndicate Co., Inc., 1961-1966, 1971: Box #3.020, Folder # 20.2]
• Letter from Harriman H. Dash, Biochemist, Nassau Hospital, RE: Thanks LP to his letter concerning his paper, “Constant Energy Differences in Atomic Structure.” Dash says that his paper presented the constant energy differences for the isoelectronic series of a number of elements. Defends his paper to LP, and addresses the concerns that LP had with regard to Dash’s paper. [Letter from LP to Dash May 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence), #99.4] 
• Letter from Isaac Asimov to LP: Says that he is surprised to hear from LP. Also states that he is terribly ashamed for making the mistakes on the article that he did. He has corrected the mistakes and also thanks LP for the reprints to his article.[Letter from LP to Asimov May 31, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Isaac Asimov), #6.17]
• Letter from John Raeburn Green, Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold, Attorneys at Law, to LP RE: Discusses the New York Daily News case and its transcript, the motion for summary judgement, and a meeting with Brother Columba Curran, Green, and possibly LP. [Letter from LP to Green, June 6, 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. Edwin Flatto, Dr. Flatto’s Health School, RE: Says that he was pleased to receive Flatto’s book. Informs that there is one point in his book with which he disagrees pertaining to Flatto’s objection to fluoridation of water. Briefly discusses his objection. [Letters from Flatto to LP June 3, 1963, June 20, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence) #129.7]  
• Letter from LP to Dr. Helmer RE: LP was interested to read about the project Helmer described in his letter, however, LP has decided not to participate. [Letter from Helmer to LP June 6, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Correspondence, 1960-1963: Box #342 Folder #342.4] 
• Letter from LP to John Raeburn Green, Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold, Attorneys at Law RE: Discusses LP’s intentions not to leave California before July 14th. [Letter from Green to LP, June 12, 1963, Letter from Green to LP, June 6, 1963] [LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1967: Box #3.003, Folder #3.5]
• Letter from LP to Joseph Jugend, Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, RE: Says that he is unable to arrange an appointment for Dr. Helen Gangel-Rozbicka in his laboratories. [Letter from Jugend to LP June 7, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence) #142.2]  
• Letter from LP to Morgan M. Moulder RE: Ask for two copies of the government publications, The Hearing Before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the 87th Congress of the United States held on December 11, 1962 to December 13, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Saul Bernstein. [Letter from LP to Mr. Saul Bernstein June 25, 1958] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958), #39.1] 

  11 June 1963

  Mr. Paul Bernstein

  Creative Arts Productions, Inc.

  844 North Poinsettia Place

  Hollywood 46, California

  Dear Mr. Bernstein:

  I thank you for taking the trouble to come to Pasadena in order that my wife and I could see your film.

  I have thought about the film a good bit. As I said to you, I have some difficulty in putting myself in the place of an auditor (viewer) who does not have much background of information about nuclear war. However, I have reached the conclusion that the film could be made much more effective than it is at present by some editing, to avoid repetition and to emphasize the argument, and also to clarify it. I have the impression that a person without much background in the field would be confused by the film, and would not understand what its meaning is.

  Although I would like to be of help to you, and I appreciate how great the sacrifice is that you have made in working in this way in the cause of peace, I feel that I cannot make a satisfactory statement about the film.

  With regret at this decision, which, however, seems to be the only one that I can make, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Dictated by Linus Pauling

  Signed in his absence:hpg

• Letter from LP to Nordal Akerman, RE:   LP is pleased to learn about Akerman’s plans to publish a book against nuclear weapons.  LP thinks that he will be able to prepare a small essay on the harm of the bomb tests.  LP plans to have the manuscript to Akerman before the 1st of October.  [Akerman’s letter May 27, 1963] [Akerman’s reply October 16, 1964]  [Filed under LP Peace: (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1948-1864), Box #3.016, Folder #16.8]
• Letter from Marco Pannella to LP, RE: Pannella discusses the pacifist movement in Italy .  Pannella notes that there will be a new daily news agency called “Agenzi Radicale” which will give the most accurate coverage of the pacifist movement in Italy and in the world.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Oxford Conference, January 4-7, 1963), Box #2.006, Folder #6.2]
• Letter from Menachem S. Arnoni to LP, RE: Thanking LP for the effort he went through to get permission to print his article “World Civilization Survive a Nuclear War?” Suggests that after the essay is published in the volume of essay in honor of Bertrand Russell that the Minority of One prepare reprints for distribution. [Letter from LP to Arnoni June 3, 1963, Letter from LP to Arnoni June 13, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15] 
• Letter from Ralph Atkinson to Plaintiffs in the Bomb Test Suits, RE: Atkinson thanks all those who have contributed to help raise funds for the case and appeals to those who have not to send in anything that may be of help in the case.  [Filed under LP Peace: (The Bomb Test Suits, 1962-1964), Box #6.002, Folder #2.1]
• Letter to LP from Ralph Schoenman, RE: Schoenman thanks LP for his letter and the cheque, and says that the Bulletin intends to publish the letter in July. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.002]
• Receipt from J. Herbert Hall Company Jewellers to LP RE: Total of $24.60 for engraving.  “ACS” written in black ink on the back.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.061, Folder #61.1]
• Research Notebook of LP RE: Electronegativity of Carbon as Function of s in Orbital, p. 77. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 24R]