March 8, 1951
Dear Mr. Flanagan:
In answer to your letter of February 27, I would say that I think it would be fine
if George Grey would write about the sickle cell anemia work.
I think that it would be good for me to give him some additional information. Would
you tell him, when you talk to him about the letter, that I would like to see his
rough draft (presumably it will be somewhat changed from the Rockefeller Foundation
report) and that I would hope that he could include some of our newer material in
it.
I am so excited about some new developments in the field of research that I cannot
consider taking time to write the sickle cell anemia article for you now. The new
development is that I think we have discovered the secret of the protein structure
problem. I hope that Professor Corey and I can get several papers on this matter published
in the next three months. It seems to me to be just about the most important step
forward that has been made during the last 25 years or perhaps 50 years in this field.
Cordially yours,
Linus Pauling
