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Correspondence
75 documents
Letter from Linus Pauling to William B. Munro. December 12, 1941.
Pauling requests that a guard be hired for the Gates and Crellin Laboratories in order
to protect research sponsored by... Transcript. View all information.
Anonymous Anti-Japanese Note to Linus Pauling. March 7, 1945.
Anonymous note sent to Pauling harassing him for his employment of a Japanese-American
gardener. Transcript. View all information.
Transcript of an anonymous letter sent to Linus Pauling. March 9, 1945.
An anonymous "neighbor" writes to threaten Pauling with property damage and bodily
harm for his hiring of a Japanese-American gardener. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. September 4, 1945.
Linus writes to Ava Helen to update her on his travels across the U.S. Linus also
reports on his meetings... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling.
, September 7, 1945.
Linus writes to Ava Helen to update her on his travels on... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Robert M. Hutchins. September 25, 1945.
Pauling writes to express his views on the peril of atomic weapons and nuclear warfare. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from George Pepper to Linus Pauling. November 3, 1945.
Pepper writes to apprise Pauling of an especially worthwhile analysis of the May-Johnson
Bill. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Frank Aydelotte. November 16, 1945.
Pauling writes to discuss the emerging interest of Caltech faculty in studying world
affairs, especially as concerns nuclear weapons policy.... Transcript. View all information.
Telegram from George Pepper to Linus Pauling. November 25, 1945.
Pepper writes to request that a delegation of Caltech scientists participate in a
conference on atomic power and foreign policy,... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from David Shoemaker to the Caltech Faculty. December 13, 1945.
Shoemaker writes to inform the Caltech faculty of the formation of a campus organization
meant to study developments in nuclear... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Harlow Shapley. July 3, 1946.
Pauling writes to provide a list of able candidates for appointment to the Atomic
Energy Commission, and also to suggest... Transcript. View all information.
Donor solicitation letter written by Albert Einstein, on behalf of the Emergency Committee
of Atomic Scientists. February 10, 1947.
A form letter in which Einstein solicits funding for the work of the Emergency Committee
of Atomic Scientists. Transcript. View all information.
Form letter sent by Linus Pauling on behalf of Sidney Weinbaum. 1949.
A form letter in which Pauling solicits donations for Sidney Weinbaum's defense fund. Transcript. View all information.
Form letter from W.E.B. DuBois and Linus Pauling. July 26, 1949.
A form letter in which DuBois and Pauling, as Vice-Presidents of the American Continental
Congress for World Peace, outline the... Transcript. View all information.
Telegram from Eleanor Pasternak to Linus Pauling. April 17, 1950.
Pasternak asks that Pauling issue a public statement agitating against the University
of California loyalty oath policy. Pauling drafts... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Mrs. Dalton Trumbo to Linus Pauling. August 16, 1950.
Mrs. Dalton Trumbo (Jean Rouverol) writes to Linus Pauling to report on her husband's
parole status. The letter also contains... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dr. E. C. Kleiderer. October 20, 1950.
Pauling writes in response to the cancellation of his consultant arrangement with
Lilly Research Laboratories. He reflects positively on his... Transcript. View all information.
Memorandum from Linus Pauling to Charles Newton. October 23, 1950.
Pauling writes to report on his interactions with media members seeking comment on
allegations made by Senator Joseph McCarthy of... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Sidney Weinbaum to Linus Pauling. December 8, 1950.
Weinbaum writes to Pauling to convey aspects of his life in prison. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Holland Roberts. October 25, 1951.
Pauling writes to express his concern at the restrictions being placed upon interaction
between U.S. and Soviet scientists. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Ruth B. Shipley to Linus Pauling. February 14, 1952.
Shipley notes that Pauling's passport request has been denied as not being in the
"best interest" of the United States.... Transcript. View all information.
Telegram from Linus Pauling to Kathleen Lonsdale. May 1952.
Pauling writes to inform Lonsdale that he will not be able to attend a meeting due
to the revocation of... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the United States Board of Parole. November 3, 1952.
Pauling writes to support Sidney Weinbaum's application for parole from prison. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dean Acheson. November 4, 1952.
Pauling writes to protest the denial of a passport to Stephen Fritchman by the United
States government. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Sidney Weinbaum. December 10, 1953.
Pauling writes to suggest the possibility that Weinbaum might look for work in Israel. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Farrington Daniels. December 17, 1953.
Pauling writes to dispute Daniels' account of the rationale behind the denial of membership
of Irene Joliot-Curie to the American... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dr. Willard F. Libby. March 30, 1955.
Pauling writes to dispute Libby's statements on relative danger of radiation. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Edward Condon to Linus and Ava Helen Pauling. May 21, 1956.
Condon writes to update Linus and Ava Helen Pauling on his recent activities as well
as his thoughts on the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Reino W. Hakala. March 6, 1957.
Pauling writes to discuss his thoughts on the physiological impact of nuclear fallout. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Cyrus Eaton to Linus Pauling. November 19, 1957.
Eaton writes to share his thoughts on the impact of the Pugwash movement as well as
to discuss aspects of... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the Editor of Chemical and Engineering News. February 4, 1958.
Pauling writes to dispute statements made in a Chemical and Engineering News regarding
Soviet attitudes toward nuclear weapons control. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dwight D. Eisenhower. February 19, 1958.
Pauling writes to request a meeting with Eisenhower and to express his views on the
dangers of nuclear weapons tests. Transcript. View all information.
Memo from Jonathan Rice to Linus Pauling. February 20, 1958.
Rice writes to Pauling to make a series of appearance suggestions and outline the
ground rules of Pauling's upcoming televised... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Barry Commoner to Linus Pauling. February 25, 1958.
Commoner writes to update Pauling on the status of a number of peace-related activities
in which they share a mutual... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dr. Willard F. Libby. March 5, 1958.
Pauling writes to request information for use in his forthcoming book, "No More War!" Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Norman Cousins. March 25, 1958.
Pauling writes to suggest ways in which they might work together to increase their
effectiveness as peace activists. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the President of National Broadcasting Corporation. May 15, 1958.
Pauling writes to issue a series of complaints related to his treatment during an
appearance on "Meet the Press." Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Lee DuBridge. June 10, 1958.
Pauling writes to discuss his resignation as chair of the Division of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering at the California Institute... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to W.B. Lewis. August 23, 1958.
Pauling writes to discuss, at length, his perspectives on a number of issues detailed
in his book, No More War! Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to R.R. Williams. October 6, 1958.
Pauling writes to rebut Williams' assertions that Pauling has made exaggerated claims
concerning the danger of nuclear weapons tests, and... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from J.D. Bernal to Linus Pauling. November 12, 1958.
Bernal writes to briefly discuss his and Pauling's recent books as well as the need
for increased effort by the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to D. Mead Johnson. January 9, 1959.
Pauling writes to Johnson to discuss the physiological impacts of Strontium-90 ingestion
and to suggest a potential product to eliminate... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A.E. Kerr. October 30, 1959.
Pauling writes to dispute statements issued by the Atomic Energy Commission. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred Okrand. April 28, 1960.
Pauling writes to discuss his having been defamed by the Arcadia Tribune. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Ava Helen Pauling to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. September 23, 1960.
Ava Helen writes to update Hodgkin on personal matters, including the effects upon
herself and Linus of the ongoing Senate... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Otto Bastiansen. October 4, 1960.
Pauling writes to discuss the status of his conflict with the Senate Internal Security
Subcomittee. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Otto Bastiansen. October 4, 1960.
Pauling writes to discuss the history of the development of his ideas about peace. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Robert Zachary. November 2, 1960.
Pauling writes to ouline his plans to write a book entitled "Fighting for Peace and
Freedom." Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dag Hammarskjold. February 16, 1961.
Pauling writes to formally submit to the United Nations "An Appeal to Stop the Spread
of Nuclear Weapons." Pauling's... Transcript. View all information. 12 pages total.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dag Hammarskjold. April 19, 1961.
Pauling writes to inform Hammarskjold of recent additional signers of "An Appeal to
Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons." Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Ava Helen Pauling to Jacqueline Kennedy. July 15, 1961.
Ava Helen writes to warn Mrs. Kennedy of the danger to children of Strontium-90 poisoning
and to reiterate her support... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to John F. Kennedy. July 21, 1961.
Pauling writes to implore Kennedy to avoid steps that might increase the chances of
nuclear war and to resist the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Albert Szent-Györgyi to Linus Pauling. October 16, 1961.
Szent-Györgyi writes to express his concern with media portrayals of the danger of
radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Nikita Khrushchev. October 18, 1961.
Pauling writes to implore the Soviet Union to cease nuclear weapons tests. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Malcolm C. McKenna. October 19, 1961.
Pauling writes to scold McKenna for statements on atmospheric testing written by McKenna Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Nikita Khrushchev to Linus Pauling. October 27, 1961.
Khrushchev writes to explain, at length, the Soviet Union's rationale in continuing
its program of nuclear weapons tests. Transcript. View all information. 8 pages total.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dr. Willard F. Libby. December 21, 1961.
Pauling writes to dispute Libby's writings regarding fallout shelters and civil defense. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to John F. Kennedy. January 26, 1962.
Pauling writes to urge Kennedy not to continue with nuclear weapons tests, and details
his thoughts on the health hazards... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to John F. Kennedy. March 1, 1962.
Pauling writes to implore the United States to cease nuclear weapons tests. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to John F. Kennedy. August 1, 1963.
Pauling writes in gratitude to Kennedy for his work in securing a ban on above-ground
nuclear weapons tests. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. October 1, 1963.
Pauling writes to discuss his recent activities and to express his happiness at the
recent ratification of the nuclear test... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Gunnar Jahn. October 17, 1963.
Letter in which Linus Pauling expresses his happiness at having been named the recipient
of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Jerome Wiesner. December 13, 1963.
Pauling writes to recount his treatment by the United States Ambassador during his
Nobel trip to Oslo, Norway. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Hubert H. Humphrey to Linus Pauling. March 19, 1964.
Humphrey writes to congratulate Pauling for his receipt of the Temple Beth Zion Award
and to praise Pauling for his... Transcript. View all information.
Note from Linus Pauling to Martin Luther King, Jr. March 18, 1965.
Pauling responds to a telegram in which Dr. King had invited Pauling to participate
in a civil-rights march. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Ava Helen Pauling to Albert Szent-Györgyi. April 7, 1965.
Ava Helen writes to express her and Linus's thanks for Szent-Györgyi's support regarding
their anti-Vietnam War activism. Ava Helen... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Martin Luther King, Jr. June 21, 1965.
Pauling writes to provide an update to Dr. King concerning An Appeal by Recipients
of the Nobel Peace Prize and... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Lyndon B. Johnson. December 2, 1965.
Pauling communicates, on behalf of recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, a letter received
from Ho Chi Minh regarding the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Donald W. Ropa to Linus Pauling. October 17, 1966.
Ropa writes to acknowledge President Lyndon Johnson's receipt of "An Appeal by Recipients
of the Nobel Peace Prize" for peace... Transcript. View all information.
Telegram from Ho Chi Minh to Linus Pauling. May 27, 1967.
Telegram in which Ho thanks Pauling for supporting efforts to end the Vietnam War
and expresses his views on the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Senator James Devitt. November 30, 1973.
Pauling writes to express his views on the dangers of nuclear power production. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Anne Eaton. December 29, 1982.
Pauling writes to recount to Eaton the details of his recent trip to the Soviet Union. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Yuri Andropov. June 15, 1983.
Pauling writes to request that the Soviet government allow Andrei Sakharov to leave
the country and join the staff at... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Colin Powell to Nobel Laureates for Mideast Peace. October 27, 1988.
Powell writes to thank the Nobel Laureates for Mideast Peace for their letter and
to discuss U.S. initiatives in support... Transcript. View all information.
Open Letter from Linus Pauling to President George H.W. Bush. January 18, 1991.
An open letter to President George H.W. Bush in which Pauling asserts that war is
immoral and causes human suffering,... Transcript. View all information.
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