Letter from Linus Pauling to Francis Heisler. February 13, 1964. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Letter from AHP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box #5.044, Folder #44.6]

  3500 S. Fairpoint Street

  Pasadena, California

  February 10, 1964

  Dr. Peter Pauling

  62 Elgin Crescent

  London, W. 11, England

  Dear Peter:

  Today is your birthday and I hope that you have a happy time. I am sorry I do not remember birthdays very well any more. I guess this is an inherited characteristic, which I have passed on to my children, too. Once having recognized the hereditary failure, we must accept it and not mind very much.

  I am writing to tell you that I have had one or two firm offers for the Mercedes and I write now to ask you to send me the exact year of the car and how many cars there were like it made, and any other pertinent information which I shall have to have to make the transaction final. Are there any papers which are necessary to transfer?

  Please do this immediately so that I can get rid of this car because we intend to move in the summer and it will be one thing which will be out of the way. Perhaps you will remember that the garage is pretty well filled with junk that you had collected and I am wondering if there is anything which is of any value there. I don't suppose it would be worth your while to come over just to have a look at the garage but if you do think of anything that might be of value perhaps you would tell me about it.

  I should also like to have you mention anything which you would like to have particularly. I cannot guarantee that you will have it because we do not intend to make a general distribution of our belongings at this time but it is not likely that we shall have a house large enough to contain everything that we now have and if there is some special thing that you would like or any of the furniture we should be very happy to give it serious consideration.

  Our friends in Copenhagen were extremely good to us and one of their artists is making a great ceramic bowl especially for us. Moreover, they have sent us thirteen presents, one for each of our grandchildren. I am not sure that I can get them separated properly and unless there is a real present I think I shall not bother to send them on to you, but I wanted you to know that the people were that tender and thoughtful.

  I do not know whether you ever knew my dear Tom. Yes, I do remember that you met him. Well, he has come back and wants to spend the rest of his life with us on the ranch. You can imagine how much we rejoice at this. However, he has a little wife now, who looks about fifteen, so we cannot be sure that things will work out well.

  We are soon to have our this year's round-up of calves and have written to Linie to ask him if he would like to come and take part as he did last year. We were quite astonished to learn just day before yesterday that Anita had remarried and apparently was married when we were in Oslo. We had no inkling of this and I don't believe many did. [...]

  I also was given a booklet for the grandchildren but don't know quite how to divide it.

  Please let me know as soon as you can about the automobile.

  We send much love to you and Julia and the children.

  Mama

  Have you met our dear friends the Durrs? Also, did you ever see Kay Cole? How is Bernard? We worry about him.

• Letter from Alois Stoff, Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner, to LP. RE: Thanks him for his letter of confirmation. Begins making arrangements for his time in Germany. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.25]
• Letter from Crellin Pauling to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box #5.048, Folder #48.8]

  10 February

  Dear Peter:

  Happy Birthday. Imagine getting a birthday greeting from me. Just imagine.

  Mama is apparently selling the Merc. She rang up last night to find out what I could tell her about it. She is asking 3500. Also apparently Linda and Barclay are taking over the establishment at 3500 Fairpoint. I view this with mixed emotions, but I mustn't let this out. Ma and Pa are moving to Santa Barbara, but she didn't know if they are going to buy a house there or not. I don't know yet about Santa Barbara, so can't say much. I still think that I would take such a job were it offered, but I am not too optimistic. My first duty is to get my goddam thesis done. I am also looking into a job at Hawaii, which sounds like a pretty good one. Christ.

  I saw Pokker the other day. He seems quite happy. He had many kind things to say about you. I have also gotten the impression that he is pretty popular with students. All in all I think that things are going well for him here. Don't worry, I shan't say anything here that might prove embarrassing to him.

  We though that the enclosed might amuse you.

  Much love,

  Crellin

• Letter from Dave O’Quinn to Helen Gilraine RE: O’Quinn is a college student who has written a proposal which expresses the same ideas which LP expressed in No More War.  O’Quinn asks if it is possible for LP to review his proposal and provide comments.  [Letter from Dick to O’Quinn April 15, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: O: Correspondence, 1937-1965: Box #300 Folder #300.26]
• Letter from J. Wm. Gehring, GM Defense Research Laboratories, to LP RE: Invites LP to address the March, 1964 meeting of the Central California Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Santa Barbara on the 18th or 25th. Invites LP to visit the GM Defense Research Laboratories for a tour before or after the dinner-meeting. [Letter from LP to Gehring February 18, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (G: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #142.3]
• Letter from Karl Paul Link to LP, RE: Link sent this wire to Heisler: "Have business pending with my patent lawyer in Washington D.C. If there is any value to the presence of plaintiff Link when brief is filed onor [sic] before the 22nd I might be able to be there. Kindly wire essentials collect." [Filed under LP Peace: (The Bomb Test Suits, 1962-1964), Box #6.002, Folder #2.1]
• Letter from LP to Cornelius Greenway, D.D. RE: Returns the photograph that he sent him, explaining that he did not sign it because it is not of LP. Encloses a signed photograph of himself. [Handwritten note from Greenway to LP January 25, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (G: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #142.3] 
• Letter from LP to Courtland L. Agre, Augsburg College. RE: Will arrive in Minneapolis on November 19. Suggests the titles of his talks be “The Significance of Science in the World of Today and Tomorrow” and “Progress Toward Peace and Disarmament”. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s2 Folder #1964s2.13] 
• Letter from LP to Fred Okrand RE: LP has just seen the Los Angeles Times article about J.C. Chambers and members of the Board of Education.  LP encloses a clipping from the Times on January 29th and asks Okrand if he thinks there is anything that can be done by LP about the statement by J.C Chambers. [Filed under LP Correspondence: O: Correspondence, 1937-1965: Box #300 Folder #300.26]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Bennett, H.B. Bennett Travel Agency, RE: requesting a rebate for airline tickets [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.4] 
• Letter from LP to Mr. David H. Carlisle RE: Tells Carlisle that he is also opposed to the construction of Nuclear fission power plants near populated or conservation areas, but that he is too busy at the time to participate in any organizations working against it. [Letter from Carlisle to LP January 31, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (C: Correspondence, 1963-1965), #77.2] 
• Letter from LP to Professor Francis Ashley Montague RE: Thanks Montague for his letter of congratulations. Says that he is moving to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]
• Letter from LP to Professor Russell Bonham, Department of Chemistry at Indiana University, RE: Thanks him for his letter and the reprints. Explains that he is working on his correspondence that has accumulated since his trip to Norway, and so is postponing reading Bonham’s paper. Notes that he is considering preparing a fourth edition of his book “The Nature of the Chemical Bond.” Agrees that there is still a great deal of work to be done by the electron diffraction method. Handwritten note at top of page: “Req. For opinion - 1964 Scientific.” [Letter from Bonham to LP January 27, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (B: Correspondence, 1962-1964), #40.3] 
• Letter from LP to Ralph D. Haskin RE: Sends a postcard he received from the postmistress and requests that a large mailbox be bought because more of his mail will be sent to the ranch.  Also requests that the branding be postponed in order for Linus Jr. to help with it. [Letter from Ralph D. Haskin to LP and AHP June 11, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Box # 4.047 Folder # 47.1]
• Letter from LP to W. M. Sheehan to LP RE: LP thanks Sheehan for his letter of 31 January and for his earlier letter and copy of Van Slyck’s book. LP says he has been away from home and is only now trying to catch up with his correspondence. LP asks if Sheehan noticed in his Nobel Lecture (Minority of One, January 1964) that he followed Sheehan’s advice by using the expression world law.[Handwritten note at top: “Peace Movements 1964.”] [Letter from Sheehan to LP: January 31, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1964-1965: Box #383 Folder #383.1]
• Letter from Peggy Hayes to LP, RE: Hayes thanks LP for sending her the AHP Memoriam and LP's book. AHP was one of the dearest people Hayes every met. Hayes describes her admiration of LP's and AHP's work. [Filed under AHP Correspondence: (General Correspondence, Personal, N-Z), #2.2]
• Letter from Stanley Schaefer, W.H. Freeman and Company, to LP, RE: As LP may know, Scientific American has purchased Bill Freeman's stock in the Company, as well as the few shares that Addison Wesley had been able to pick up. The voting Trust has, therefore, served its purpose and was dissolved last week. Will LP please send in the certificate that was sent to him when the Trust was formed? Upon receipt, LP's stock certificates from the Trust pool will be returned. Everyone in the Company is relieved to know that the Trust is no longer needed. The plans for collaboration with Scientific American are proceeding as hoped for. [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer #2, Folder #2.009]
• Memorandum from Arthur Cherkin to J.F. Catchpool, c.c:LP RE: “Information for Report on Anesthesia Project, 1 October 1963 - 31 December 1963 (including some data from January 1964).” [Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: Anesthesia Research, 1959-1983), Box #12.001, Folder #1.11] 
• Research Notebook of LP RE: Isomers, p. 12. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: 25R] 
• Typed Note: Gives an address for LP to send the original set of proofs and manuscript (or galleys) to. Handwritten “mailed 2/10/64 Hpg,” Helen Gilrane, Secretary to LP. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1963), Box #1963a, Folder #1963a.14]