January 31, 1969 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Invitation to the Conference on the Science of Superconductivity, to be held August 26 through August 29, 1969, at Stanford. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia. Box #1.038, Folder #38.4]

Letter from LP to Dr. James D. Burke, Research Laboratories, RE: Admits that he does not know anyone who has tried to treat mental patients by injecting optimum doses of vitamins into the cerebral spinal fluid system; mentions that he is currently working on research as to what the optimum amounts are for particular substances. [Letter from LP to Burke, 2, 1969] [Letter from Burke to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1969-1971), Box #43, Folder #43.1]

Letter from LP to Dr. Marelva Bianchi, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, RE: Asks for clarifications about the article LP has been asked to write, with the subject of "Professor Linus Pauling - Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954". [Letter from Bianchi to LP, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Bianchi, 8, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1969-1971), Box #43, Folder #43.1]

Letter from LP to Gertrude V. T. Lewis RE: Apologizes that he does not have a solid enough background in medicine to answer her questions. Suggests that she may be helped by megavitamin therapy (3 grams of vitamin C per day). [Letter from LP to Lewis, 5, 1969] [Letter from Lewis to LP, 1, 1969] [Letter from LP to Lewis, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1967-1971), Box #234, Folder #234.3]

Letter from LP to Hilda Freedman RE: Admits that he has not done any work on epilepsy and is not particularly knowledgeable about the topic; promises to send a copy of "Orthomolecular Psychiatry", along with other material relating to schizophrenia. [Letter from LP to Freedman, 3, 1969] [Letter from Freedman to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1967-1975), Box #130, Folder #130.3]

Letter from LP to Margaret Humbustone RE: Promises to send a copy of "Orthomolecular Psychiatry", along with other material. Suggests that her daughter try megavitamin therapy, including vitamins C and B3. Apologizes for being unable to recommend a psychiatrist in Vancouver, British Columbia and suggests that she show his letter to her physician. [Letter from LP to Humbustone, 3, 1969] [Letter from Humbustone to LP, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1967-1969), Box #170, Folder #170.3]

Letter from Lawrence Dawson to LP RE: Offers to donate to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions a tape recording of a speech made by Professor Sydney D. Rubbo, chairman of the School of Microbiology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, before the War and Peace Study Group in Sydney. [Letter from LP to Dawson, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1967-1973), Box #100, Folder #100.3]

Letter from Noël Davis, National Speakers Service, to LP RE: Asks again whether LP would be interested in visiting Youngstown University to be honored by the student body and faculty. [Letter from LP to Davis, 0, 1969] [Letter from LP to Davis, 1, 1969] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1967-1973), Box #100, Folder #100.3]

Letter from Peter Jeffress Pauling to Prof. Barclay Kamb. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family. Box #5.044, Folder #44.11]

31st January, 1969

Professor Barclay Kamb

Geology Department

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena

Calif. U.S.A.

Dear Barclay,

It was a pleasure to see you but I am sorry I didn't get a chance to see more of you. I apologize for not writing letters, since I have been back I have written no letters at all.

I am not sure that is true. I cannot remember now whether I did it or not, but I certainly intended to write you and ask you about the amounts of gaseous and liquid nitrogen you used per day to cool a crystal on a precession camera. If I did write you would you please answer the letter, and if I did not, how much gaseous and liquid nitrogen do you use per day to cool a crystal on the precession camera? I am looking into the problem of cooling a crystal to liquid nitrogen temperature on my 4-circle diffractometer. One of my problems is that my laboratory is not on a lift and there is going to be a certain amount of trouble humping Dewars down a flight of stairs into the laboratory. I think I shall have to put in an electric hoist.

One of my colleagues, Dr. Pulak Chakravarti, the Chief Programmer on our IBM 360 computer is coming to Los Angeles for the SHARE conference beginning the 3rd March. I think it would be valuable if he were to see a little bit of the computational facilities at Cal. Tech., and would ask that if he contacts you, you could put him in touch with the appropriate people in the Computer Department. I think he is quite good as a Chief Programmer. He may ring up some time and all you have to do I think is to tell him whom to get hold of at the Computer Centre.

Things are going fairly well here. Our diffractometer was out of action for a couple of months while the laboratory was being overhauled, but the boys are now lining it up again and I think it will be going about the beginning of next week. It has taken rather a long time to overhaul the laboratory and get the instrument back into operation. I am very anxious for it to start working again.

Linus has been here for a couple of months and has been great fun, though I have not seen as much of him as I should like. He seems to be rushing around like mad and keeping pretty busy. [...]

Many thanks for your help.

Much love,

Peter Pauling

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