Activity Listings
- Article: “H.R. 1180", The House of Representatives, 91st Congress, 1st session. [Filed under LP Biographical: Scrapbooks: Box #6.010 Folder #10.128]
- Check from LP to Lyons Van Lines for $110.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial. Box #4.038, Folder #38.4]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Britton Chance, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, RE: Tells him that he did not attend the Philosophical Society meeting and does not have any plans to visit Philadelphia in the near future since he will be very busy. [Letter from Chance to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Individual Correspondence (Chamberlain - Cherkin)), Box #64, Folder #64.2]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Joram Piatigorsky, National Institutes of Health, RE: Agrees to write an introductory dedication to the issue of Developmental Biology dedicated to Albert Tyler. [Letter from Piatigorsky to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1964-1969), Box #315, Folder #315.6]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Oleg Jardetzky, Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology, Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, RE: Apologizes for being unable to accept the invitation to speak at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Pharmacology and for being ill and unable to meet with Jardetzky during his recent visit. [Letter from LP to Jardetzky, November 5, 1968] [Letter from Jardetzky to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Individual Correspondence (Jack - Jariwalla)), Box #188, Folder #188.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Victor Herbert, Department of Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. [Letter from LP to Herbert, November 11, 1968] [Letter from Herbert to LP, 1969] [Letter from LP to Herbert, 5, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Individual Correspondence (Helfferich - Heyrovsky)), Box #156, Folder #156.4]
January 3, 1969
Dr. Victor Herbert
Department of Medicine
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Fifth Avenue and 100th street
New York, N. Y. 10029
Dear Dr. Herbert:
I apologize for the delay in answering your letter of 11 November.
I have been overwhelmed with work. On receipt of your letter I decided to check the many references in the literature to the ineffectiveness of ascorbic acid in treating the common cold, referred to in your letter, and also to check other references in the literature. This literature search is going on slowly. I shall write to you about the results, as soon as the work is completed.
I am fully aware of the tremendous problem of malnutrition, even in our rich country. I do not think that this means that we should ignore the question that I have been emphasizing, as to what the optimum intake of vitamins for human beings is.
Also, I do not think that the way to handle the vitamin quacks is to suppress information about the value of vitamins, or to make it harder to get vitamins, as the Food and Drug Administration is now trying to do. Instead, I think that we need more knowledge about vitamins, more publicity about the proper price to be paid for vitamins, more information generally.
I was asked by the drug manufacturers association to testify in the current FDA hearings. I do not think that I shall do so. I wish that the Government attorneys would ask me to testify.
Sincerely,
Linus Pauling
LP:jj
- Letter from LP to Ira B. Klein, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, RE: Tells Klein that he has delayed filling out the statement for the National Institutes of Health because of the uncertainty regarding next year. Also notes that he has not received notice about availability of funds from NIMH for next year or for his reappointment in the University of California, San Diego. Promises to write again once there is additional information and suggests that perhaps Klein should find another sponsor for his postdoctoral research proposal because of the numerous uncertainties at hand. [Letter from LP to Klein, December 2, 1968] [Letter from Klein to LP, 1969] [Letter from LP to Klein, 0, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1967-1971), Box #203, Folder #203.3]
- Letter from LP to Mrs. Russell P. Remour RE: Promises to send her a copy of "Orthomolecular Psychiatry", along with some other material. Tells her that his paper deals mainly with mental illness, such as schizophrenia, rather than mental retardation. Mentions the study being done by the Institute for Child Behavior Research and suggests that she contact Dr. Bernard Rimland. [Letter from LP to Remour, December 17, 1968] [Letter from Remour to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1964-1969), Box #343, Folder #343.6]
- Letter from LP to Peter Georgi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RE: Apologizes for being unable to accept the invitation to speak for the Modern Man Society because his schedule is already heavy. [Letter from LP to Georgi, November 11, 1968] [Letter from Georgi to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1966-1969), Box #143, Folder #143.4]
- Letter from LP to Professor Arne Tiselius, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Nobel Symposia, RE: Informs Tiselius that once he received the letter and invitation, he wrote immediately to Dr. Nilsson to accept the invitation to speak on Scientists in Politics at the Nobel Symposium in Stockholm in mid-September. [Letter from Tiselius to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Individual Correspondence (Thant - Toole)), Box #407, Folder #407.5]
- Letter from LP to Professor Ray D. Owen, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, RE: Tells him that he has agreed to write an introduction to the issue of Developmental Biology dedicated to Albert Tyler. Requests that Owen send him a list of titles of Tyler's published papers, along with any reprints available, which he can return once he has read them. [Letter from Owen to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1966-1977), Box #301, Folder #301.4]
- Letter from LP to T. Stewart Varey RE: Promises to send a copy of his recent paper, along with some other material. Admits that he does not know much about the preparations mentioned in Varey's letter and says he has not had much contact with pre-senile psychosis. [Letter from Varey to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence 1933-1969), Box #427, Folder #427.29]
- Letter from LP to Vance McClure RE: Returns his manuscript, which he believes would be worthwhile to change by mentioning explicit expressions for the three best d-orbitals and the expressions for the other two orthogonal to these three. [Letter from McClure to LP, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Individual Correspondence (McClure - McMillan)), Box #245, Folder #245.1]
- Telegram from Frank Gibney, President, Encyclopædia Britannica, to LP RE: Discusses the new collaboration between Encyclopædia Britannica and Tokyo Broadcasting System to produce Britannica International Encyclopædia, a new four-volume encyclopedia in Japanese, to be published in April 1972. Invites him to be an international sponsor or patron of the set; in return for his name being listed in the encyclopedia, offers him a complimentary set of the Britannica International Encyclopædia, the Encyclopædia Britannica, or the 54-volume Great Books of the Western World. Includes handwritten note in right margin of first page by LP: "I agree to be sponsor. LP". [Letter from LP to Gibney, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Organizational Correspondence (Ea - Ex)), Box #111, Folder #111.7]
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