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Letter from Linus Pauling to Arnold Sommerfeld. October 20, 1925.
Pauling writes to inform Sommerfeld of his forthcoming travels to Europe and to discuss the research topics that he would... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to the Research Fellowship Board of the National Research Council. December 28, 1925.
Pauling writes to describe his on-going course of research in anticipation of traveling to Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship --... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes. April 25, 1926.
Pauling writes to update Noyes on his travel experiences, research and scholarly interactions while in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship.... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling and Ava Helen Pauling to A.A. Noyes. May 22, 1926.
Pauling writes to update Noyes on his research and scholarly interactions while in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Ava... Transcript. View all information. 6 pages total.

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes. July 12, 1926.
Pauling writes to update Noyes on his travel experiences, research and scholarly interactions while in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship.... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes. November 22, 1926.
Pauling writes to update Noyes on his travel experiences, research and scholarly interactions while in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship.... Transcript. View all information. 5 pages total.

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes. December 17, 1926.
Pauling writes to update Noyes on his travel experiences, research and scholarly interactions while in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship.... Transcript. View all information. 6 pages total.

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Letter from Henry Allen Moe to Linus Pauling. March 9, 1927.
Moe writes to notify Pauling that his Guggenheim Fellowship has been renewed. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Samuel Goudsmit. November 16, 1927.
Pauling writes to propose that an English-language translation of Samuel Goudsmit's thesis be published. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Samuel Goudsmit to Linus Pauling. November 21, 1927.
Goudsmit writes to grant his permission for Pauling to translate Goudsmit's thesis, and to update Pauling on his research and... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from A.A. Noyes to Linus Pauling. November 29, 1927.
Noyes writes to discuss the publication of Samuel Goudsmit's thesis. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to G.N. Lewis. March 7, 1928.
Pauling writes to update Lewis on his recent work, including details of a forthcoming publication in PNAS as well as... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Gerald Wendt to Linus Pauling. March 13, 1928.
Wendt writes to express his hope that Pauling might be able to complete his manuscript on the application of quantum... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from G.N. Lewis to Linus Pauling. May 1, 1928.
Lewis writes to discuss recent research on quantum mechanics and structural chemistry. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to W.L. Bragg. October 22, 1928.
Pauling writes to discuss recent research on the structures of topaz, tungsten and the molybdenum compounds, the publication of Pauling's... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from James Conant to Linus Pauling. February 20, 1929.
Conant writes to invite Pauling to visit Harvard University and to express his desire the Pauling leave Caltech to join... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes. February 24, 1929.
Pauling writes to update Noyes on some of the work that he has completed and some of the people that... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to W.L. Bragg. March 21, 1929.
Pauling writes to discuss the possibility of visiting Bragg in Manchester, England. Pauling also expresses his interest in Bragg's... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes. March 21, 1929.
Pauling writes to detail his expectations for future support from Caltech. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to G.N. Lewis. May 18, 1929.
Pauling writes to inform Lewis that he has decided to stay at Caltech, but has received permission to conduct an... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from James Conant to Linus Pauling. May 20, 1929.
Conant writes to describe the specifics of a job offer that could be made to Pauling by Harvard University. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Robert Millikan to Linus Pauling. May 21, 1929.
Millikan writes to describe his thinking behind why Pauling should reject job offers from Harvard University and stay at Caltech. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to James Conant. May 23, 1929.
Pauling writes to thank Conant for his job offer but to inform Conant that he has decided to stay at... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from G.N. Lewis to Linus Pauling. May 29, 1929.
Lewis writes to express his pleasure that Pauling is staying at Caltech and will be able to make regular trips... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from John C. Slater to Linus Pauling. June 16, 1929.
Slater writes to express his understanding of Pauling's decision to stay in Pasadena, and also to discuss his recent work. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to W.L. Bragg. July 15, 1929.
Pauling writes to discuss the logistics of his forthcoming trip to visit Bragg in Manchester, England. Pauling also discusses, in... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to W.L. Bragg. September 16, 1929.
Pauling writes to discuss his researh on the structure of crystals -- particularly the structure of pseudobrookite -- and to... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Norman Smith to Linus Pauling. November 27, 1929.
Jensen writes to notify Pauling of his election to an Honorary Research Fellowship by the University of Manchester. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from G.N. Lewis to Linus Pauling. March 8, 1930.
Lewis writes to express his delight at Pauling's forthcoming trip to Berkeley. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from John C. Slater to Linus Pauling. January 21, 1931.
Slater writes to describe the details of a job offer being made to Pauling by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes. January 27, 1931.
Pauling writes to describe to Noyes his reasons for being interested in the job offer made by the Massachusetts Institute... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to John C. Slater. February 9, 1931.
Pauling writes to say that he is tempted by the offer of a job at M.I.T., but that his position... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Arthur B. Lamb. February 11, 1931.
Pauling writes to submit the paper "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" for publication in The Journal of the American... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Arthur Lamb to Linus Pauling. February 26, 1931.
Lamb writes to inform Pauling that his manuscript on the nature of the chemical bond has been refereed and accepted... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Arthur B. Lamb. June 4, 1931.
Pauling writes to thank Lamb for securing the prompt publication of his paper on the nature of the chemical bond.... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Moses Gomberg to Linus Pauling. July 8, 1931.
Gomberg writes to notify Pauling that he has been chosen as the first recipient of the "American Chemical Society Award... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Karl Compton to Linus Pauling. October 15, 1931.
Compton writes to inform Pauling that he has been appointed as visting lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Karl Compton. October 23, 1931.
Pauling writes to accept an appointment as visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Jack Sherman to Linus Pauling. April 10, 1932.
Sherman writes to note that he and Ralph Hultgren have been working on the evaluation of Slater's "F" and "G"... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Jack Sherman to Linus Pauling. April 18, 1932.
Sherman writes to pass along the formulae obtained for Slater's "F" and "G" integrals, notes that he will resume work... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Karl Darrow to Linus Pauling. May 23, 1932.
Darrow writes to define the stochastic hypotheses for Pauling from the 1909 edition of Alexander Smith's Inorganic Chemistry. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred Allen. September 13, 1932.
Pauling informs Allen that he would like to work with Yost on xenon and asks Allen for a sample. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred Allen. October 12, 1932.
Pauling writes to thank Allen for the sample of xenon. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from W.A. Noyes to Linus Pauling. November 21, 1932.
Noyes writes to Pauling to discuss Pauling's book publication proposal. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to James B. Conant. February 21, 1933.
Pauling writes to thank Conant for recommending Wheland and to report that he is now completing a quantitative treatment of... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Fred E. Wright to Linus Pauling. April 26, 1933.
Wright informs Pauling that he has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred E. Wright. May 2, 1933.
Pauling writes to accept the National Academy of Sciences' offer of membership. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from W.A. Jensen to Linus Pauling. May 31, 1933.
Jensen writes to notify Pauling that Oregon State College wishes to confer upon him an honorary doctorate. Pauling responds... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred Allen. July 12, 1933.
Pauling writes to inform Allen of Yost's failure in creating a compound of xenon with chloride or fluorine, which Pauling... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Fred Allen. November 16, 1933.
Pauling writes to update Allen on Don Yost's work with xenon, requesting that Allen allow them to keep the loaned... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to A.A. Noyes and J.P. Buwalda. February 2, 1934.
Pauling requests that Noyes and Buwalda communicate a grant application to the Geological Society of America in Pauling's name. ... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from G.N. Lewis to Linus Pauling. July 18, 1935.
Lewis writes in endorsement of Pauling's idea that he make a trip to Berkeley to deliver a series of lectures.... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Richard C. Tolman to the Executive Council, California Institute of Technology. June 26, 1936.
Tolman writes to decline the Executive Council's offer of the chairmanship of the Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to the Executive Council, California Institute of Technology. August 10, 1936.
Pauling writes to decline the Executive Council's offer of the chairmanship of the Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Robert Millikan to Linus Pauling. December 15, 1936.
Millikan writes to inform Pauling that he has been granted a leave of absence to fill the Baker Lectureship at... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Jacob Papish. December 17, 1936.
Pauling writes to accept the Baker Lectureship residency at Cornell University. Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Edward Barrett to Linus Pauling. May 4, 1937.
Barrett writes to offically inform Pauling that he has been appointed chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Fritz London, October 28, 1937.
Pauling requests that London send reprints of his papers, noting that his suggestions were of minor consequence in light of... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to James B. Conant. September 2, 1938.
Pauling writes to discuss Conant's discussion of resonance in the revision of his organic chemistry text. Pauling offers his... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Irving Langmuir. June 2, 1939.
Pauling responds to Langmuir's questions regarding the polypeptide chain theory, discussing each question in detail. He suggests that most... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to W.S. Schaefer. June 13, 1939.
Pauling provides Cornell University Press with a list of professors, researchers, and scientists who should receive copies of The Nature... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to G.N. Lewis. August 29, 1939.
Pauling discusses his dedication of The Nature of the Chemical Bond to Lewis. He notes Lewis' upcoming paper on... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to William Seifriz. April 12, 1946.
Pauling discusses the nature of the Heitler-London bond and informs Seifriz that he would be willing to write an article... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to J. Holmes Sturdivant. February 21, 1948.
Pauling writes to discuss his research on the structure of metals. Pauling notes that through "a great stroke of... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to J. Holmes Sturdivant. May 4, 1948.
Pauling writes to discuss Unicam instruments and to request that equipment be ordered. Describes the system of work at the... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Arnold Sommerfeld. May 16, 1949.
Pauling writes of his pleasure in hearing that Sommerfeld will receive the Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Robert Mulliken to Linus Pauling. July 13, 1951.
Mullikan forwards to Pauling a form letter detailing the proposed itinerary and travel logistics for participants in the Shelter Island... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Roger Hayward. July 19, 1951.
Pauling writes to request that Hayward craft five drawings of the Na2Cd11 molecule, providing detailed instructions concerning the specific nature... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Lee DuBridge. November 4, 1954.
Pauling writes to request a paid leave of absence while he embarks upon his Nobel acceptance trip and subsequent world... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Linus Pauling, Jr. November 26, 1954.
Pauling writes that he and Ava Helen are excited for their trip, but are currently very busy getting prepared. He... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to the Collector of Internal Revenue, December 5, 1954.
Pauling writes to state that he will be making a trip to Stockholm and will be out of the country... Transcript. View all information. 

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Letter from Linus Pauling to Frank Archibald. December 1, 1955.
Pauling writes to share an anecdote about Arnold Sommerfeld. Transcript. View all information. 

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