Letter from Linus Pauling to Frank Catchpool. August 9, 1966. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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• Check from LP to County of Monterey, RE: $6.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Financial, Box 4.029, Folder 29.1]
• Letter from John Raeburn Green to LP . RE: Discusses whether or not to drop the suit against the Globe-Democrat. [Filed under LP Biographical: Legal, Box 3.003, Folder 3.9]
• Letter from John V. Dodge, Encyclopedia Britannica, to LP RE: Invites him to write an article on chemical bonding. [Letter from LP to Dodge September 27, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: D: Correspondence, 1960-1966: box #99, Folder #99.7]
• Letter from LP to Arthur Cherkin, Psycho-biology Research Dept., Veterans Administration Hospital RE: Discusses the death of Dr. Webb. Feels he should consider writing an article on the action of hydrogen-bonding compounds. [Filed under LP Correspondence: C: Individual Correspondence: (Cherkin, Arthur), Box #64, Folder #64.8] 
• Letter from LP to Dr. Gennaro Dini, International Encyclopedia of Chemistry, RE: Declines his invitation to prepare two articles on chemical bonds and valence bonds theory for their encyclopedia. [Letter from Dini to LP June 1, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: D: Correspondence, 1960-1966: box #99, Folder #99.7]
• Letter from LP to Frank Catchpool, M.D., University of California, School of Medicine. [Letter from Catchpool to LP July 29, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: (Catchpool, John Francis, 1959-1994), Box #62, Folder #62.8] 

  August 9, 1966

  Dr. Frank Catchpool

  University of California

  School of Medicine

  Department of Pharmacology

  San Francisco, California 9122

  Dear Frank:

  Thanks for your letter.

  I am not yet putting weight on my tibia, except a little bit by accident, but I expect to be doing so from Friday (5 August) on. I shall have X-rays made on Friday, and presumably have the present cast replaced by a smaller one, with a rocker. I am interested to learn what you mentioned about bone being laid down in response to stress. The problem in my case is that the tibia was split along its length, starting at the joint, and extending about six inches up, but, I think, not coming to the surface. The physician was afraid that pressure from below would act as a wedge, causing the split ends to separate.

  I broke the bone by slipping on some dried grass on a hillside not far from the ranch house, and falling with my leg doubled under me, so that my full weight came transversely across the middle of the lower leg, subjecting it to a bending strain, such as gives a green stick fracture in young people. I am somewhat surprised that this transverse strain should have caused the bone to split along its length, at one end, as it did, but of course the transverse strain produces a shear along the central plane of the bone. I was told at the hospital that it is a rather unusual sort of break.

  A couple of young fellows, relatives of ours, were here at the time. They took me in to San Luis Obispo.

  I am pleased to learn about the chapter that you are writing for a textbook on Pharmacology. I think that it is a worthwhile activity.

  As to the article that you are preparing for the Festschrift, I think that your suggestion is all right, but that it would be good not to repeat very much of the material already printed. Do you have more models, and more photographs, that you might publish - some that have not published before perhaps? I think that your models are excellent, and the photographs and drawings look very good. Perhaps you could build your presentation around these models, including some of the discussion of my paper that you have already published.

  We send our love to Adriana.

  Sincerely,

  Linus Pauling

  Signed by Dr. Pauling's secretary

• Letter from LP to Gilbert D. Mead, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, RE: Declines the invitation to come to Greenbelt next spring due to other travel plans and his broken leg. [Letter from Mead to LP July 8, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: M: Correspondence, 1966: Box #260, Folder #260.2]
• Letter from LP to Gustav Albrecht RE: Asks him to make a report on electric resistivity or conductivity of liquid silicon, at various temperatures, and of solid silicon.  Would also like a report on liquid and solid germanium, properties of liquid and solid tin, and the resistivity of gray tin. [Filed under LP Correspondence: A: Individual Correspondence (Albrecht, Gustav): Box #4, Folder #4.2]
• Letter from LP to James R. Young, Jr., Biology Editor, McGraw-Hill Book Company, RE: Declines the invitation to prepare a book on Geometry of Molecules for their new series. [Letter from Young to LP June 2, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: McGraw-Hill and Co., : Box #253, Folder #253.11]
• Letter from LP to Professor Charles C. Price, Editor Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania RE: LP's leg is healing well, and he enclosed a copy of his letter to Mr. Young. [Filed under LP Correspondence: P: Correspondence, 1964-1969: Box #315, Folder #315.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor D. Marotta, Chemical Society of Italy, RE: Informs of his decision not to prepare the article requested by Dr. Dini for the International Encyclopedia of Chemistry. [Letter rom Marotta to LP May 14, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: D: Correspondence, 1960-1966: box #99, Folder #99.7][Filed under LP Correspondence: M: Correspondence, 1966: Box #260, Folder #260.2]
• Letter from LP to Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg RE: Shocked to read the letter by Donald Keys to Feinberg, and is trying to take action about it. Hopes that he and his wife will be able to see him again later on. Informs that he has largely been working on scientific problems. [Letter from Feinberg to LP July 25, 1966][Filed under LP Correspondence: F: Individual Correspondence (Feinberg, Abraham): Box #119, Folder #119.1]
• Memo from LP to W. H. Ferry RE: Agrees that the subject of Mr. Waldraff’s suggestion should be marked closed. Informs that it is okay to send memoranda to him at Big Sur.  Hopes that his cast will be replaced by a smaller one. [note at bottom margin from FKG to Ferry RE: Informs that LP’s heavy cast has not yet been removed and she plans to come up for a few days taking along lots of mail.] [Filed under LP Correspondence: F: Individual Correspondence (Ferry, W. H., “Ping”): Box #119, Folder #119.8]
• Memorandum from LP to W.H. Ferry, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, RE: LP agrees that they can close the subject of Waldraff's suggestion, and says that it is alright to send memoranda to Big Sur, where he is staying; he doesn't know when they will be coming back to Santa Barbara. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia, Box 1.036, Folder 36.5]
• Report by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO's Contribution to Peace" BELLAGIO meeting 23-28 May 1966. [Filed under LP Correspondence: U: Organizational Correspondence. (Un - Un): Box #420, Folder #420.2]