Letter from Linus Pauling to B. L. Dunicz. December 8, 1964. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Bank Book Entry: Dept. Ag. Cal. Brand. $3.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.039, Folder #39.1]
• Check from LP to the Department of Agriculture, California RE: $3.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP January 19, 1965] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Letter from AHP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box #5.044, Folder #44.6]

  Ava Helen Pauling

  794 Hot Springs Road

  Santa Barbara, California

  8 December 1964

  Dear Peter,

  We came home from Australia the middle of November exhausted and the Daddy left immediately for another week speaking tour in the East. He came home the day before Thanksgiving and we spent that holiday at the Deer Flat Ranch with Linda and Family and Crellin and Family (who are now at Stanford). It was really fun to see the little boy and girls playing together. We had a whole slew of little new calves so Nature seemed one vast procreation.

  11 December

  We've been interrupted as you can see. Did you send Bernstein the signatures he needed to register the Mercedes?

  We are glad your house is coming so well. I enclose $25.00 which I wish you to use to get Thomas a $10 or $15 mechano set or erector set and the rest $10 or $12 a nice doll for Sarah. Put cards on them from Grandma and Grandpa Pauling. Please don’t use the money for anything else. This if it is done, seems to me to be dishonest.

  I’m sorry not to have had time to get a box off to them. I’m not sure it is wise, however, to try and get clothes for them! I seem never to get the right ones and it takes a long bit of time.

  I had a good letter from my great friend Virginia Dunn who said Cliff had seen you in Fondson [?]. They are fun – especially unexpected [?].

  We are thinking of a family reunion at Deer Flat Ranch (a house warming for our new house which is going to be lovely) at the Easter Holiday. Easter is 18 April this year. Do you think your family might be able to come then? Perhaps better to wait until summer? What do you think? I’m so glad Julia is finding something interesting to do. I wish she’d return to school.

  We've read the most exciting book written by many people (C.P. Snow etc.) about Bernal. He is a remarkable man alright.

  Best love to you and Julia and the children.

  Mama

  And Merry Christmas

• Letter from Jeffrey S. Stamps to LP RE: Stamps is writing on behalf of the University of New Hampshire and says that the students are sponsoring a conference on “The Transformation of American Democracy” to be held from April 19 to 21 and they would like to invite LP to be speak at the conference. Stamps discusses what the conference is about. [Letter from LP to Stamps: December 16, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1964-1965: Box #383 Folder #383.1]  
• Letter from LP to Beata Inaya, Stars for Freedom, RE: Requests that Inaya send LP a list of artists, description of the art, and donation amounts with Stars for Freedom letterhead so that LP might send letters of thanks to the artists who donated to the Stars for Freedom auction. Includes financial statement regarding the auction. [Letter from Inaya to LP, December 15, 1964] [LP Biographical: Political Issues: Assorted Materials re: Civil Liberties: Box #2.046, Folder #46.13] 
• Letter from LP to Dr. B.L. Dunicz, Physical Chemistry Branch of the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. [Letter from Dunicz to LP November 20, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (D: Correspondence, 1960-1966), #99.5] 

  December 8, 1964

  Dr. B. L. Dunicz

  Physical Chemistry Branch

  U. S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory

  San Francisco, California 94135

  Dear Dr. Dunicz:

  I am sorry that I have been delayed in answering your letter of 20 November - first by my absence on a trip to the eastern United States, and then by illness.

  First, let me mention that the structures of a number of polyborate minerals have been determined by x-ray diffraction, during recent years. Most of this work seems to me to be reliable. These structures almost without exception involve either a tetrahedral arrangement of four oxygen atoms around a central boron atom or a plainer arrangement of three oxygen atoms around a central boron atom.

  I think that there is sound theoretical reason for the planarity of a group of three oxygen atoms around a boron atom, and that the configuration that you assign to boron atoms can be confidently ruled out. The structure given in your Figure 4 is, on the other hand, a structure that is compatible with known structural principles.

  Sincerely yours,

  mjh Linus Pauling

  Enc.

• Letter from LP to Dr. Daniel Bergsma, M.D., Director of the Medical Department of the National Foundation, RE: Expresses his disappointment upon learning that Bergsma is not able to add LP’s article “Molecular Disease and Evolution” to the reprint series for distribution to physicians, scientists, and students, because the S. Karger Publishing Company requested a royalty fee. Notes that this seems improper since the S. Karger Publishing Company did not pay any royalty to LP when they published the article in the Karger Gazette in November, 1963. Informs Bergsma that he is writing to Mr. Karger to ask that he does not claim the royalty fee. [Filed under LP Correspondence (B: Correspondence, 1962-1964), #40.3] 
• Letter from LP to Dr. S. Husain Zaheer, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, RE: Tells Zaheer that he is pleased to know that Dr. G.N. Ramachandran is being considered for the Directorship of the National Physical Laboratory of India. Explains to Zaheer that he knows Ramachandran’s scientific work well and recommends him for the position strongly. [Filed under LP Correspondence (C: Correspondence, 1963-1965), #77.2] [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Individual Correspondence (Rabinowitch-Randall): Box #326 Folder #326.4] 
• Letter from LP to Ernest Shaefer RE: LP says he was pleased to receive Shaefer’s letter of 18 November but says that he has been making an effort to decrease the number of lectures that he gives and has decided not to accept Shaefer’s offer to speak at the Hadley Memorial Fund Lecture. [Letter from Shaefer to LP: November 18, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1964-1965: Box #383 Folder #383.1]  
• Letter from LP to Gordon L. Hiebert, Bowdoin College, RE: Thanks him for kindness. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s2 Folder #1964s2.15] 
• Letter from LP to John J. Stefanoff RE: LP thanks Stefanoff for his letter of 27 November. LP says that he has looked at his schedule for the coming year and as reached the conclusion that it would be difficult for him to arrange to speak at the MEA Convention on October 22, 1965 and that he cannot accept. [Letter from Stefanoff to LP: November 27, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1964-1965: Box #383 Folder #383.1]  
• Letter from LP to Mr. Alexander Calder RE: Explains that he was in Australia during October and November, which prevented him from checking up on the activities of the Arts Committee for Freedom. Notes that he plans to write to Calder and Mr. Cleve Gray as soon as he has information about their activities. Tells Calder that he was shocked that Proposition 14 was turned down by the people of California. Says that he cannot come to Los Angeles at the time of the dedication her his fountain at the Los Angeles County Museum. [Handwritten note from Calder to LP November 20, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (C: Correspondence, 1963-1965), #77.2] 
• Letter from LP to Mr. Ernest Shaefer, Executive Secretary of the Hadley Executive Committee, RE: Says that he cannot accept Shaefer’s invitation to present a Hadley Memorial Fund Lecture at some time between October 1, 1965 and May 31, 1966, because he is trying to decrease the number of lectures that he gives. [Filed under LP Correspondence (H: Correspondence, 1963-1966), #169.2] 
• Letter from LP to Mr. John J. Stefanoff RE: Tells Stefanoff that he has decided not to speak at the closing general session f the MEA Convention on October 22, 1965. Asks Stefanoff not to present his name. [Filed under LP Correspondence (G: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #142.3] 
• Letter from LP to Mr. Malcolm S. Gordon RE: Agrees with Professor Libby about the matter of academic freedom of science. Says that an interesting topic is the rise of students participating in political activities. Notes that he is too busy for the next few months to be able to accept any more speaking engagements. [Letter from Gordon to LP November 27, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (G: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #142.3] 
• Letter from LP to Mr. Richard Fulton, Richard Fulton Inc., RE: Tells Fulton that he does not expect to be in New York in February or March, so he can not accept Fulton’s invitation to address a Reform Jewish Congregation during that time. [Letter from Fulton to LP November 18, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (F: Correspondence, 1957-1966), #129.8] 
• Letter from LP to Mr. Van W. White, Jr., Eugene Jaycees, RE: Declines White’s invitation to speak at his banquet on January 22nd, because his schedule is too busy. [Filed under LP Correspondence (E: Correspondence, 1960-1969), #113.5]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Joan Holland RE: Tells Holland that he is overwhelmed with work right now and cannot make a tape as described in her letter. Notes that several of his lectures at the Australian Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament were taped and that perhaps she could get a tape from Mr. G.R. Anderson. [Letter from Holland to LP December 7, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (H: Correspondence, 1963-1966), #169.2] 
• Letter from LP to Thomas Karger RE: LP feeling that there is value in having his article reprinted again for an edition of 10,000 or more to be distributed by The National Foundation.  LP requests that Karger waive his claim to a royalty and inform Dr. Bergsma about the decision to reprint the article “Molecular Disease and Evolution.”  [Letter from Karger to LP December 3, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: K: Correspondence, 1963-1966: Box #202 Folder #202.2]
• Letter from LP to Van M. White Jr. RE:   LP is not able to attend the banquet, and be the guest speaker, on January 22nd due to a heavy schedule.  [Letter from White to LP November 25, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence W: Correspondence, 1963-1965: Box #446 Folder #446.2]
• Letter from LP to the Gentlemen at the Bank of America Pasadena Main Office, RE: Encloses a notice that they sent to him about securities they are holding for his account. Informs them of his new address and says that he has a bank account at the First Western Bank, Colorado-Rosemead Office. Asks them to turn the securities over to that bank for deposit in his account. [Filed under LP Correspondence (B: Correspondence, 1962-1964), #40.3] 
• Letter from Michael A. Phillips, W. H. Freeman & Co., to LP RE: Sends LP proofs of his book, The Architecture of Molecules.  Points out several corrections to be made to the book and requests that LP reply with additional errors he may have found. Handwritten notes by LP commenting on errors in the book noted by Phillips. [Filed under LP Books: 1964b3.4]       
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP RE:  “Advice of Charge.”  $10,000.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.1]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP RE:  “Commercial Account.” Deposit slip.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.1]