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• Publication: "Quantum mechanics and the third law of thermodynamics," LP and E. D. Eastman. Journal of Chemical Physics, 4, pp. 393-394. [LP Publications: 1936p.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Katharine Putnam Crane amount $85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pearl M. Hardwick amount $3.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from John Arthur Wilson to LP RE: Informs LP of his series of papers on the Electronic Theory of Tanning. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.3]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP recommends that the paper by Bent and Keevil be accepted for publication. He suggests one minor edit. [LP Science box 14.002, Folder 2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Bullock's amount $100.17 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. F. O. Anderegg RE: LP sends some silicate reprints however, some of the reprints have been exhausted. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #299, Folder #299.7]
• Letter from LP to Dr. L. J. B. LaCoste RE: LP apologizes for being negligent about sending his work on lithium hydride. LP hopes this has not caused a problem for him but does not know if it is desirable for LaCoste's research to continue in view of the recent thorough treatment reported in the Journal of Chemical Physics. [Filed under: L: Correspondence, Box #230.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Rogers Williams RE: Is pleased to learn that Williams will be given a large sum of money from the Rockefeller foundation work on pentothenic acid. LP plans to write a letter to the Chancellor regarding the poor state of the Chemistry department as well. [Williams' letter: May 22, 1936] [Filed under: Williams, Roger, J. Box #436.1]

• Letter from Karl Landsteiner to LP. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #212, Folder #7]

  THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR

  MEDICAL RESEARCH

  66th STREET AND YORK AVENUE

  NEW YORK

  June 3, 1936

  Dr. Linus Pauling

  California Institute of Technology

  Pasadena, Calif.

  Dear Doctor Pauling,

  I wish to thank you sincerely for your kind invitation. It is still my opinion that it would be of great advantage for the problems we talked about if I could discuss them with you at greater length with a view to possible ways of approach. I do not know just when it would be feasible for me to visit Pasadena, but I shall keep your kind offer in mind.

  With best regards to you and Mrs.Pauling,

  I am,

  Yours very sincerely,

  K. Landsteiner.

• Letter from LP to Dr. D. C. Carpenter. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #57.13, file: (Carpenter, Dwight Chance 1936-1944)]

  June 5, 1936

  Dr. D. C. Carpenter

  78 Maple Street

  Geneva, New York

  Dear Dwight:

  I am glad to hear that you and your wife reached home safely; I had a feeling that you would drive most of the way between 60 and 70, and consequently I was a little worried about you on the trip.

  My wife and I had a fine time in the East. We enjoyed our visit at Rochester as well as that at Ithaca very much, and we looked with interest at Geneva as we passed through it on the Lehigh Valley. Your region is surely a beautiful one at least in the spring time.

  I have learned that an old friend of mine named Harry Goresline is in Geneva. If you run across him, I hope you will give him greetings from me.

  No doubt you have heard of the death of Dr. Noyes day before yesterday. He returned in a weakened condition from Rochester and lived only a few days after being attacked by pneumonia. His funeral is to take place this afternoon, the services being held in Culbertson Hall. I am afraid that we shall have a hard time to get along without him.

  Don't forget to let me know how you get along with the publication of our papers and don't forget to order reprints for us and to have them charged to us. I was very greatly pleased by the good work which you did here and I feel that your investigations make a very interesting contribution to our knowledge of the polymerized aldehydes. When you get around to taking another Sabbatical leave, I hope that you will consider coming out here again. We are going to have more work in organic chemistry next year then ever before, and probably development in this direction will continue. Aside from Professor Lucas' students there will be three advanced workers in organic, one Commonwealth Fellow from Oxford, one member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, and a young man who has just taken a Ph.D. at Yale.

  Brockway has been working hard, but has not yet got around to doing anything about the chlorodioxanes so far as I know.

  With best wishes to Mrs. Carpenter as well as to you, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling,

  LP:ml

• Letter from LP to Dr. John Arthur Wilson RE: LP was very interested to read his reprint on the electronic theory of tanning and explains for the most part that he agrees. LP details a few points of disagreement. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor Gordon RE: LP thanks Gordon for inviting him to attend the summer session at Gibson Island but regrets to say that he will be unable to attend. [Filed under: J: Correspondence, Box #192.3]
• Letter from Walter A. Hubbard to LP RE: Has received the samples Hubbard sent and apologizes for the delay in responding. Is sad to report Professor Noyes death, who passed away the two days ago. Explains that while he interested in his work, he can offer little suggestions for his work with ores because CIT is not set up for their study. [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #165.1]
• Note from E. Bright Wilson to LP RE: Communicates with LP that he has accepted a job as Assistant Professor at Harvard, even though offered a job at Princeton as well. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.5]

• AHP writes cheque to: Clara Gilchrist amount $7.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Edwin Porter amount $3 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Vroman's amount $1.85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from Jack to LP RE: LP's suggestion to write a supplement to the Chemical Review article. Jack is interested in doing so and would like to collaborate with Mr. Edienoff, a graduate student in chemistry. Plans to devote most of the discussion to J. E. Mayer's work. [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5]
• Note from W. D. Springall to LP RE: Apologizes to LP for note writing sooner, but informs him of his arrival in Pasadena in September. [LP's reply: July 13, 1936] [Filed under: S: Individual Correspondence, Box #367.6]

• AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $2.85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]

• AHP writes cheque to: A. C. Vroman amount $12.56 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from C. R. Narayan Rao to LP RE: Rao sends LP the latest copies of Current Science a monthly scientific journal published in India. Asks LP if he would be willing to supply an article on x-ray analysis to be included in the supplement of 25 years of Laue diagrams. [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #340.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Thomas S. Chambers RE: LP reports that he would be happy to have Chambers join him at the Institute for next school year. Although lab space is limited LP ensures there will be enough room with little inconveniences to deal with. Informs Chambers of living arrangements etc. [Chambers' letter: May 30, 1936] [Filed under C: Correspondence, 1921-1957, Box #74.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor E. D. Eastman RE: LP encloses the letters he has received from Rodebush regarding their paper. [Filed under: E: Individual Correspondence, (Eastman-Eide), Box #106.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor G. E. MacGinitie. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255.3]

  June 8, 1936

  Professor G. E. MacGinitie

  Corona Del Mar

  Orange County, California

  No doubt you remember that last summer the boys working in the laboratory here arranged for a picnic with us on the beach at Corona Del Mar. In collaboration with my wife they have now been making plans to do the same thing again, the proposal being to spend next Monday, June 15, at the beach. I suppose there will be about as big a crowd as last year, that is, about 20 people. Would you give us permission to use the dressing rooms of the laboratory provided that we promise to behave ourselves in general? We would hope that you and your wife and Walter would join us in lunch on the beach.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:ml

• Letter from LP to Professor G. W. Stewart RE: LP has read his paper and thinks after a few minor changes are made, it will be satisfactory for the Faraday Society meeting. [Stewart's reply: June 23, 1936] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377.6]
• Telegram from W. D. Harkins to LP RE: Expresses his desire to interview Anderson early Thursday morning at the lab. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #151.11]

• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $3.24 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Charles C. Thomas amount $4 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from Charles Degard to LP RE: Thanks LP for admission to the group at California Institute of Technology for a year as Graduate Fellow of the C. R. B. Educational Foundation Inc. Explains his work and the evident of the influence of thermal vibrations of the atoms on the diffraction of electrons. [LP's reply: June 29, 1936] [Filed under: Degard, Charles, 1936-1940: Box #91.1]

• AHP writes cheque to: Bullock's amount $116 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from R. Rowling Barnes to LP RE: Asks LP for reprints of those articles concerning molecular structure specifically those regarding "the nature of the chemical bond" and those with electron diffraction experiments such as the one on formic acid written with Brockway. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.3, file (B: Correspondence 1936)]

• Letter from H. J. Yearian to LP RE: Thanking LP for allowing him to work in at CIT during his time as a research fellow. Explains that he is married and has two children so any information regarding furnished apartments or houses will be much appreciated. Hopes to continue his work of explaining the zinc oxide intensity discrepancies other than by atomic distortion. [LP's last letter: May 28, 1936, LP's reply: June 23, 1936] [Filed under: Y: Individual Correspondence, Box #460.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Gerald Wendt RE: LP strongly recommends that Professor Oldenberg be invited to write the article on "persistence of molecular vibration and rotation in collisions". Also, recommends that Dr. Kinney be invited to submit a manuscript. [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5]

• AHP writes cheque to: Clara Gilchrist amount $7.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]

• Letter from S. Goudsmit to LP RE: Asks LP to inform others that Ewald will be available for other lectures throughout the country. He is committed to summer school in Michigan but would love for some work. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, Box #128.2] also [Filed under LP Correspondence: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #137.4]

• Letter from F. K. Richtmyer, Secretary to Dr. Millikan RE: Richtmyer informs Millikan that Hubert Jose Yearian has been appointed to National Research Fellowships and has chosen to conduct his work at CIT. [Filed under: M: Individual Correspondence, Box #247.1]
• Letter from H. L. Johnston to LP RE: Asks LP to participate in the symposium and discussion for the Division of the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society regarding "Molecular Structure" to be held at Princeton on January 1, 2, and 3 1937. [Filed under: J: Individual Correspondence, Box #190.2]
• Postcard from Wheeler P. Davey to LP RE: Asks LP for three reprints of "The Application of the Three-Dimensional Patterson Method and the Crystal Structures of Pronstite and Pyragyrite." [Filed under: D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.1]

• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $15.53 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Collector of Internal Revenue amount $17.69 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Polytechnic Elementary School amount $1.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP recommends that Dr. Wyman revise his manuscript before publication. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP recommends that the paper by Dr. Onsager be accepted for publication. He suggests a few changes. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Messrs. C. A. Beevers and H. Lipson, Victoria University. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.3, file: (B: Correspondence 1936)]

  June 19, 1936

  Messrs. C. A. Beevers and H. Lipson

  Physical Laboratories

  Victoria University

  Winchester, England

  Dear Sirs:

  I was very much interested to see a notice in Nature stating that you have prepared strips of numbers for use in calculating Fourier series. We have been making use of strips giving values of (sin x)/x for our electron diffraction calculations and have found the method so convenient that I am sure that your strips would also be of much value to us in connection with our crystal structure work. Could you send me a sample strip and a description of the set of strips and a statement as to the cost of a set?

  I wish to congratulate you on the very interesting series of structure investigations that you have been carrying on.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP: ml

• LP writes cheque to: California Institute of Technology amount $34.73 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from Gerald Wendt to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter of June 12, regarding Oldenberg and Kinney. [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5]
• Letter from R. Rowden to LP RE: Explains to LP that a copy of Quantum Mechanics was sent to Mr. Henry Allen Moe at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in Pasadena however, the package was returned. Asks LP if the address may have been incorrect. [LP's letter: May 25, 1936,LP's reply: July 1, 1936] [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.5]

• Letter from Felix Haurowitz to LP RE: Thanks LP for sending the papers on the magnetic properties on Hb-derivatives. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #152.7]
• Letter from G. W. Stewart to LP RE: thanking LP for his critical comments on his paper. Asks LP for his comments about the more acceptable radii to use in the electrolytes. [LP's letter: June 8, 1936, LP's reply: June 26, 1936] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. H. J. Yearian RE: LP looks forward to seeing him around September 15th and explains that he is located in the Astrophysics Building on California Street. [Yearian's letter to LP: June 12, 1936] [Filed under: Y: Individual Correspondence, Box #460.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. H. L. Johnston RE: LP regrets that he will be unable to take part in the symposium but suggests that Brockway present a review of the work on electron diffraction work instead. [Filed under: J: Individual Correspondence, Box #190.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. S. Goudsmit RE: Hopes that it will be possible for some extra lectures or even a permanent appointment for Ewald and LP offers to do what he can ensure this happens. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, Box #128.2] Also [Filed under LP Correspondence: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #137.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor R. Bowling Barnes, Princeton University, RE: LP sends some of the reprints Barnes had requested however, the reprints on the nature of the chemical bond have been exhausted. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.3, file: (B: Correspondence 1936)]
• Letter from LP to Professor S. C. Lind. [Filed under: L: Correspondence, Box #230.2]

  June 28, 1936

  Professor S. C. Lind

  School of Chemistry

  University of Minnesota

  Minneapolis, Minnesota

  Dear Professor Lind:

  On behalf of my colleagues and myself I wish to thank you for your expression of sympathy for our loss of Professor Noyes.

  During his stay in Rochester he apparently preferred to postpone the task of answering letters. I, too, wrote to him twice during that period, and he told me on his return that he had postponed his replies.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP feels that Mr. Barracca's paper on isotopes does not contain any significant material and should not be accepted for publication. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Professor G. W. Stewart RE: LP finds the changes to be quite satisfactory and is looking forward to seeing the revised paper. [Stewart's letter: June 23, 1936] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377.6]
• Letter from R.C. Tolman to the Gentlemen of the Executive Council of CIT, attn: Mr. E.C. Barrett, Secretary. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.005.59]

  June 26, 1936

  To the Executive Council

  California Institute of Technology

  Attention: Mr. E. C. Barrett, Secretary

  Gentlemen:

  Mr. Barrett informs me that during my absence in Seattle it was voted by the Executive Council to recommend to the Board of Trustees that I be made Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Director of the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry. I am very appreciative - and indeed quite touched - by this expression of confidence on the part of the members of the Executive Council. Nevertheless, both from the point of view of my own work and from that of the welfare of the Institute, I do not think that it would be wisest for us to accept.

  From my own point of view, there are two considerations which I should like to mention. In the first place, I already have a very considerable administrative task as Dean of the Graduate School. I should be glad to continue this work as Dean for a number of years, but I find it more and more time consuming as the graduate school grows and as I try to do my duty by it somewhat better. In the second place, I have always been a member both of the Chemistry and Physics Divisions, and as my own scientific thinking has developed I have found myself more interested in rather abstract problems in physics and astrophysics than in the more concrete problems of chemistry. I should hence be loth [sic] to have to take still more time away from my work in relativity and in statistical mechanics.

  From the point of view of the Institute, there are two analogous considerations which should be kept in mind. In the first place, it seems to me that the main administrative duties of the Chairman of the Division should have to do with the Division itself, and not be such as to divert too much

  time away from his own research in chemistry. In the second place, it seems to me specially improtant [sic] to select a man who is himself primarily interested in chemistry and active in its pursuit. He should be an outstanding chemist, who is actively engaged in chemical research, who has a good knowledge of the chemical work being done in this and in other countries, and who is himself recognized as a man who is now making important contributions to chemistry.

  For these reasons I do not think that it would be wise for me to accept the proposal which you have made, and wish to recommend very strongly that Professor Linus Pauling be offered the position of Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He is eminent in having the desirable qualifications for the position, which I have mentioned above, and if he accepts I feel confident that the development of chemistry at the Institute will have an assured and very successful future.

  With regard to the organization of the Chemistry Division, I recommend that the plan of a Division Council as set up by the action of your body on November 2, 1935 be maintained. This council consists at present of Professors Dickinson, Lacey, Pauling and myself, and I think that this personnel might well be retained for the present. I should myself be glad to remain on this council for a year or two, and could in that way I think make more real contributions to the welfare of the Division than if I were Chairman.

  I should myself do all I could to urge Professor Pauling to accept the position of Chairman, and to secure for him the active and friendly cooperation of other members of the Division.

  Respectfully and sincerely yours,

  R C Tolman

• Letter from William E. Vaughan to LP RE: Vaughn sends LP yet another sample and regrets for the delay in sending. Asks LP to please send the remaining sample of allene back once he is completed. [Filed under: V: Individual Correspondence, Box #425.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $22.86 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Degard RE: Is looking forward to his arrival for the fall and suggests that he and wife stay a couple of nights in the Hotel Constance while finding a place to live. [Filed under: Degard, Charles, 1936-1940: Box #91.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor C. R. Narayan Rao RE: LP would be glad to send an article on the x-ray analysis of crystals to be included in the supplement on 25 years of Laue diagrams. [Rao's letter: June 8, 1936] [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #340.1]

• Letter from Charles M. Schwartz to Professor A. A. Noyes, forwarded to LP RE: explains that he has a Ph. D degree in chemistry from Syracuse and is now looking for a job. Asks if there are any openings this year at CIT and what steps he should take to be considered. [LP's reply: July 6, 1936] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Millikan RE: LP asks Millikan if it would be possible for Brockway's expenses to be paid for as he plans to attend the Symposium on Molecular Structure held by the American Chemical Society at Princeton. [Filed under: LP Correspondence, Millikan, Robert, Box #247.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor Herzfeld RE: Explains that no one at CIT is planning work on the absorption of visible and ultraviolet rays by organic compounds. Congratulates Herzfeld on his new position as Head of the Physics Department at the Catholic University of America. [Herzfeld's letter: June 25, 1936] [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #165.1]
• Note from George S. Parks to LP RE: Asks LP if he has any post-doctorate research associateships available at CIT for a young man named, John D. Ferry. Parks warns LP that he may seem shy and difficult upon the first meeting but in fact he is very promising. [LP's reply: July 6, 1936] [Filed under: P: Correspondence, Box #312.1]