Letter from Linus Pauling to Noam Chomsky. Page 1. April 27, 1967
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  • Bank Book Entry: Thompson-Fauskee Ford Co. Calculations included. $2,419.23.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box 4.030, Folder 30.2]
  • Letter from Gunnar Jahn to LP RE: Confirms a letter stating that no Peace Prize winner belonging to the fighting nations should be members of the Delegation to Hanoi and Washington. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Box Drawer 2, Folder 2.024]
  • Letter from LP to Aage Bohr, Institute for Theoretical Physics, RE: Asks if he and AHP to visit the institute on their way to the Pacem in Terris II Convocation in Geneva. Expresses his wish to speak with Bohr about deformed nuclei and other problems of nuclear structure. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 28 Folder 28.12]
  • Letter from LP to Allan Schultz, Princeton University, RE: Expresses his regret that he will be unable to speak to the Princeton Ad Hoc Committee to Bring About Negotiations in Vietnam as requested in letter dated April 17, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 384 Folder 384.2]
  • Letter from LP to Arthur Cherkin, Veterans Administration Hospital, RE: Thanks him for the additional information sent on cigarette smoking and about orthomolecular psychiatry sent April 13, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 64 Folder 64.9]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Hans Kaunitz, College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University, RE: Answers Dr. Kaunitz's questions of February 15, 1967 by saying that it would be possible for different organs to have differently structured triglycerides. Informs him that he is working on a paper on orthomolecular psychiatry. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 197 Folder 197.10]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Max Unger RE: Informs him that in his letter of April 18, 1967, Dr. Unger was "in error" and did not provide a satisfactory explanation as to why LP's previously scheduled lecture at the Veteran's Administration Hospital was canceled. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 421 Folder 421.25]
  • Letter from LP to Eason Monroe, Director ACLU of S. California, RE: Responds to letter sent April 14, 1967 and states that he does not think his authorization of use of his signature on a letter written to promote the ACLU is valid any longer. Asks that the ACLU no longer send out letters with his signature attached and that letterheads with LP listed as chairman of the committee be discontinued after the end of 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 15 Folder 15.2]
  • Letter from LP to Hayes Slaughter, SERCO Inc., RE: Returns to pictures of his nuclear models to him. States that the difference between their two views on nuclear structures stems from the fact that Slaughter does not accept quantum mechanics and LP does. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 24 Folder 24.1]
  • Letter from LP to Hotel d’Angleterre, Denmark, RE: Requests a room reservation beginning on May 21, 1967 [Filed under LP Travel, Box 1.004, Folder 4.3] 
  • Letter from LP to Otto Bastiansen, University of Oslo, RE: Expresses again his view that he and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr should be included in the peace delegation to Vietnam, which he was refused in a letter sent from Professor Kjell Eideon April 7, 1967. However, he admits that Dr. King may not accept the offer. Mentions that he and AHP will be in Oslo soon and hope to visit Bastiansen. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 24 Folder 24.3]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Bernd Matthias, Department of Physics at University of California at San Diego, RE: Writes due to not receiving an official notice in the mail after talking to Frederick Wall two weeks ago. Continues to discuss Matthias' research and his progress.[Filed under LP Personal Safe: Box Drawer 2, Folder 2.006]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Bernd Matthias, University of California, RE: Discusses the possibilities of how to increase the superconducting transition temperature. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 244 Folder 244.4]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Otto Bastiansen, University of Oslo, RE: Informs him that he feels that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be unlikely to participate in the peace delegation as discussed April 13, 1967. Says he hopes to see him at the Pacem in Terris II convocation. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 106 Folder 106.7]
  • Letter from LP to William L. Floyd, Princeton University, RE: Expresses his regret that he will be unable to speak about the Vietnam War while at Princeton as requested in letter dated April 17, 1967. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 384 Folder 384.2]
  • Letter from LP to the Grand Hotel, Oslo, RE: Requests a room reservation beginning on May 24, 1967 [Filed under LP Travel, Box 1.004, Folder 4.3] 
  • Letter from Madame B. Lejeune to LP RE: Asks if it is possible intoxication by gas (cyanide or fluoride) to cause paralysis, meningitis and then encephalitis lethargica. She believes this happened to her son after an accident at his work involving gas and would like to be able to make a strong statement for the lawyers of the company. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 234 Folder 234.1]
  • Letter from Paul Robert Owyn to LP RE: Asks him about primitive man's conception of the organic and inorganic. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 143 Folder 143.2]
  • Letter from Terence M. McNeill, American Civil Liberties Union, to LP RE: Invites LP to be the guest of honor at the ACLU of Riverside, California's annual Garden Party fund raising event. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 15 Folder 15.2]
  • Letter from V.R. Damerell to Harvey Lebraun, Humanist Society of Berkley, (cc: LP) RE: Thanks Lebraun for his letter and states his regret in learning that the AHA lost more than 1000 members in the past year. Comments on what he believes to be the reason for the "American Humanists flying apart" - that we are living in the wrong energy state. Notes that LP is aware of his views and suggests that Lebraun talk to him. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 89 Folder 89.2
  • Letter from William H. Riback, Western Institute for Advanced Study, to Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, Fund for the Republic, Inc., RE: Informs him that he has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Institute and hopes that he will accept the position. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box 343 Folder 343.4]
  • Receipt from Center for the Study of Democratic Institution to LP: RE: Pay to the order of California Institute of Technology $6,000.00
  • Receipt from Thompson-Fauskee, Ford Co., to LP RE: $2,419.23.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box 4.030, Folder 30.2]