Letter from Linus Pauling to Charles Didzun. April 7, 1964. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Airline ticket: American Airlines, Pittsburgh to Los Angeles [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.4] 
• Check from AHP to Byron Hopper RE: $8.50.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP April 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from AHP to Mira Loma Mutual Water Co.  RE: $33.30.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP April 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Itinerary [handwritten]: TWA flight 29; leave Pittsburgh at 8:30 AM, arrive in Los Angeles at 11:17 AM [Filed under LP Travel, Box #1.003, Folder 3.4] 
• Letter [in German] from Professors R. Havemann to LP RE: Explains to LP that he was dismissed from his professorship at the German Academy of Sciences. Tells LP that the Academy is planning to elevate his position to full member of the Academy, but that political problems are preventing this. Asks LP to write to Dr. Hartke, President of the Academy, about the situation. [Letter from LP to Hartke April 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (G: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #142.3] 
• Letter from A. Hunter Dupree, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, to LP RE: Tells LP that he is interested in learning about the preparation of Science, the Endless Frontier, a report published un July 1945 that LP helped prepare. [Letter from LP to Dupree April 21, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1960-1966), #99.5]
• Letter from AHP to Golo Mann, RE: Asks Mann if he would speak to the assembled women from the NATO countries at the Hague on May 12th or 14th on the implications of the proposed multilateral force. Women Strike for Peace is inviting women to meet at the Hague to draw world attention to positive disarmament steps. [Filed under AHP Materials re: Peace and Women: (Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1967), Box #4.004, Folder #4.1]
• Letter from AHP to Karl Jaspers, RE: Asks Jaspers if he would speak to the assembled women from the NATO countries at the Hague on May 12th or 14th on the implications of the proposed multilateral force. Women Strike for Peace is inviting women to meet at the Hague to draw world attention to positive disarmament steps. [Filed under AHP Materials re: Peace and Women: (Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1967), Box #4.004, Folder #4.1]
• Letter from AHP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box #5.044, Folder #44.6]

  3500 E. Fairpoint Street

  Pasadena, California

  April 8, 1964

  Dr. Peter Pauling

  University College

  Gower Street W.C.1.

  London, England

  Dear Petie:

  I have sold the Mercedes to this lawyer in Beverly Hills named Lester Braunstein. He is giving me a certified check for $4250, which is $500 more than he first offered and considerably more than the tentative offers which were not really certain, that I had received before. The appraiser who came for Harrah of Harrah’s Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, was a bright young man who seemed knowledgeable and was very taken with the car but he said that it would take several thousand dollars to put it into first-rate condition. However, I have not done any advertising or anything to sell the car and I do not want to fool around with it anymore so I had decided to sell it to Mr. Braunstein.

  I thought that you all would like it better to have the car remain here in the area, which it will, and he also said that you could come and drive it if you were ever near, providing of course you were the cautious, careful people that he seems to think you are. I am not so sure about that, however.

  I think there is a possibility that I might have received more money, although the man from Harrah said that $2500 would be about right for that car and Harrah didn't make me a certain offer of $3000 so I think all-in-all I have not done too badly.

  I have about decided to come with the Women to The Hague in May and I shall perhaps come on to London. Would it be better with you if I stayed with Kay Cole this time? And wait to stay with you until your house is finished. I shall want to see you however and I shall let you know when my plans are fixed.

  Linie is coming through here on the 17, 18, 19 of this month out I am afraid that we shall not see him. It is too bad because we enjoy having him about again.

  If you are to be in the East coast this summer perhaps you should plan to come west and help with this garage. I am tempted to just burn it down every time I go down and look at it with all the junk in it. I sent away a truck-load of newspapers yesterday and I am going to try hard to get it cleaned out.

  We go to Mexico on the 2nd of May for a week or so and then I shall go on directly to Amsterdam from there.

  I've had another letter from Virginia Durr full of good words about you and your family and I'm sure that they enjoyed themselves with you very much. You were good to be so nice to them.

  I send you and Julia and the children much love,

  Mama

• Letter from AHP to Simone de Beauvoir, RE: Asks de Beauvoir if she would speak to the assembled women from the NATO countries at the Hague on May 12th or 14th on the implications of the proposed multilateral force. Women Strike for Peace is inviting women to meet at the Hague to draw world attention to positive disarmament steps. [Filed under AHP Materials re: Peace and Women: (Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1967), Box #4.004, Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Amy Swerdlow to AHP, RE: Agrees with AHP that they need the support of knowledgeable people in the Hague. Swerdlow did not get the warm reception in the Hague that she got in Geneva. Perhaps the women should write a letter to everyone they know in and around the Hague, telling them when the advance party will arrive and asking if they could be called upon for help. Swerdlow thinks that if the letter were written in AHP's name, it would get the best response. [Filed under AHP Materials re: Peace and Women: (Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1967), Box #4.005, Folder #5.3]
• Letter from Edward J. Hickey, Acting Director of the Passport Office of the Department of State, to LP RE: Refers to LP’s March 16th letter regarding Mr. and Mrs. Morris Block who wish to return to the U.S. from the Soviet Union. Explains that the issuance of exit visas to the Blocks is solely within the jurisdiction of the Soviet Government. [Letter from LP to Hickey April 10, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (B: Correspondence, 1962-1964),0 #40.3]
• Letter from George Knox Roth, Research Director of the General Research Committee, to LP RE: Notes that his son Dana, who is in graduate work in chemistry at Caltech, gave him a copy of LP’s paper on anesthesia. Discusses the effects of anesthetic gases on the brain tissue and asks LP to comment on his ideas. [Letter from LP to Roth April 10, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (G: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #142.3] 
• Letter from Josué de Castro to AHP, RE: De Castro accepts AHP's invitation to speak to the assembled women from the NATO countries in the Hague on May 12th. De Castro feels honored that AHP remembered his name. De Castro's speech will probably be on the problem of Disarmament and Economical Development, following the lines of the proposal he introduced to the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament. Asks AHP to give him some more details on the meeting and to let him know if she agrees with his suggested speech topic. [Filed under AHP Materials re: Peace and Women: (Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1967), Box #4.005, Folder #5.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Charles E. Strachan RE: Tells Strachan that he will be in Australia on October 8th, so he can not accept Strachan’s invitation to speak at the dinner at the Glendale Medical Forum. Encloses two copies of his paper “Aging and Death,” for Strachan and Dr. Fox. Handwritten note in top, right corner: “Eng ref.” [Letter from Strachan to LP March 29, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (G: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #142.3]
• Letter from LP to Ellsworth Ralston RE: LP thanks Ralston for sending the article and copy of The Technocrat.  LP agrees that there is a close relation between the arguments of “technocracy” and those presented in statements on the Triple Revolution.  [Letter from Ralston to LP March 31, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Correspondence, 1964-1969: Box #343 Folder #343.1]
• Letter from LP to Ferruccio Parri, Movimento Gaetano Salvemini, RE: LP is not able to accept the invitation to come to the symposium on disarmament.  LP sends his best wishes to the symposium for its success in directing the attention of the world to the serious problem of atomic disarmament.  [Letter from Parri to LP March 25, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: M: Correspondence, 1962-1964: Box #259 Folder #259.3]
• Letter from LP to Forrest G. Spencer RE: LP is sending Spencer some materials he may find interesting.  LP believes that it is better to have nations working through the United Nations than to abolish national governments in favor of just one large international governing body. [Letters from Spencer to LP February 25, 1964, May 4, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1964-1965: Box #383 Folder #383.1]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Alice Franklin Bryant RE: Notes that he is glad to hear that she is going to announce her candidacy for Congress again. Answers her questions about births that have occurred in Tacoma and says that he thinks it is unlikely that bomb tests have produced a detectable increase in the number of defective children born in the world. Says that he is not sure about AHP’s plans to come to Seattle. Handwritten note by LP: “Radiation Abnormal Births.” [Letter from Bryant to LP March 27, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Individual Correspondence, Bronowski - Bryant), #32.2] 
• Letter from LP to Otto Riedel. RE: Informs him that LP is making a tour of Germany from 27 June to 5 July. Suggests that he write to Alois Stoff. [Letter from Riedel February 25, 1964]  [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.25]
• Letter from LP to Ruth Weiler RE: LP will be on a lecture tour during the period of June 27th through July 5th for the Kriegsdienstgegner, Deutscher Zweig.  LP does not know if there is a possibility of including Baden-Wurttemberg on that schedule.  [Letter from Weiler to LP March 24, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: W: Correspondence, 1963-1965: Box #446 Folder #446.2]
• Letter from Mabel Proctor, Coordinating Chairman for Tacoma Women Strike for Peace to LP RE: Proctor asks if it is possible to obtain reprints of LP’s speech “Science and Peace.” [Letter from LP to Proctor April 23, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: T: Correspondence, 1964-1969: Box #412 Folder #412.1] 
• Letter from Miguel Jimenez, Congreso del Centenario de la Academia Nacional de Medicina, to LP RE: Invites him to talk part as a member of the Honorary Presidency of the Plenary Session on May 6. [Letter from April 24, 1964] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.17] 
• Letter from Raymond L. Lee, Indiana State College, to LP RE: Encloses a few extra Forum programs. Was extremely pleased with the whole affair. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.13] 
• Letter from Samuel F. Furgiuele, Indiana State College, to LP RE: Thanks him for appearing at the college. Asks for an autographed picture. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.13] 
• Letter from William A. Keville, Managing Editor, Year Book Medical Publishers to LP RE: LP’s article “The Hydrate Microcrystal Theory of General Anesthesia” to be abstracted for the forthcoming Year Book.  Keville asks for LP to send the originals of Figures 1 and 5.  [Letter from LP to Keville April 13, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Y: Correspondence, 1938-1977: Box #462 Folder #462.20]
• Memo from LP to Barclay Kamb RE: Mentions the possibility of a form of silica with a structure resembling that of cuprite.  Points out a paper in Nature by Williamson and Glasser on a new silica-like phase.  Handwritten calculation on bottom of page. [Filed under LP Books: Unpb6.1]