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• LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Magnetic susceptibility of benzene and CCl4 [by Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 13: 166-174]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pearl M. Hardwick amount $4 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from G. E. F. Sherwood to LP RE: Looks forward to having LP speak before Sigma Xi members on November 4. Asks LP to please have the title of his lecture by October 21. [LP's letter: September 30, 1936, LP's next letter: October 20, 1936] [Filed under: S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #375.2]
• Letter from Herbert B. Shapiro to LP RE: Shapiro explains that Mr. R. J. Dery has not completed an application to work under N. Y. A. Program. Tells LP to be sure that Dery fills out an application and he will be assigned for immediate work provided he is eligible. [LP's letter September 17, 1936] [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.1]

• Letter from C. K. Ingold to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter and is very sorry about his decision not to come to England. Reports that Wheland has arrived and looks forward to having him for the next few months. [Filed under: I: Individual Correspondence Box #181.3]
• Letter from H. T. Clarke to LP RE: Inquires whether LP's departmental plans for next year still include an invitation to Gurin to join his group. [LP's reply: October 7, 1936] [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence: Box #66.4]

• Letter from Oscar Rice to LP RE: Asks LP for several reprints, as previous ones have proved helpful in writing his book. Informs LP that both his aunt and mother decided to move to North Carolina to be close to him during his time at Chapel Hill and thus far, all three of them have found it to be very enjoyable. [LP's reply: October 20, 1936] [Filed under: R: Individual Correspondence, Box #329.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $23.24 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from Gerald Wendt to Dr. Moelwyn-Hughes RE: Wendt returns his manuscript entitled "Remarks on the Incorporation of Thermodynamic Variables in Chemical Kinetics" and regrets to say that it will not be published in the review. He along with others feel it is too superficial for their readers but believe it will be suited for the Faraday Society. [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5]
• Letter from Gerald Wendt to LP RE: Is sending a manuscript by Professor Herzberg and asks for LP's advice as to the suitability of this paper for publication. [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5]

• Letter from Herbert B. Shapiro to Mr. Robert J. Dery RE: Regrets to inform Mr. Dery that he will be unable to work under the N. Y. A. Program due to the new age restrictions. [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.1]
• Letter from J. E. Graf to LP RE: As previously requested, he sends the two samples of zincite to be examined by Dr. Yearian. Asks that they pleased be returned upon completion of the project. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #375, Folder #375.5]

• Letter from Dr. Fred Fairbrother to LP RE: Thanks LP for his previous letter and announces that he plans to leave around December 15 in order to spend a few days moving to Pasadena. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, 1936, Box #128.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Sanders Home Service Company amount $2 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to H. T. Clarke. [Clarke's letter: October 2, 1936] [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence: Box #66.4]

  October 7, 1936

  Professor H. T. Clarke

  630 West 163th Street

  New York, New York

  Dear Professor Clarke:

  I am sorry to have to write you that in consequence of the death of Professor Noyes the plans of the department regarding development of organic chemistry have been dropped, I hope temporarily. I shall send this information to Gurin. I had rather surmised that Gurin had made other plans for the coming year inasmuch as he did not stop to see us in Pasadena this summer as he had planned to do when I saw him in Chicago in the spring. I was very well impressed by Gurin's apparent originality and industry.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:ml

• Postcard from Wheeler P. Davey to LP RE: Asks LP to send him three reprints of "Crystal Structure of Met aldehyde" written by D. C. Carpenter. [Filed under: D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.1]

• Letter from LP to Dr. E. Rabinowitch RE: Thanks Rabinowitch for the reprints which were sent. LP regrets to inform him that he has not heard of any positions available in the States especially because the teaching positions have already been filled for the coming year. LP will let him know if anything opens up and in the meantime suggests writing to the Eastman Kodak Company. [Rabinowitch's letter: September 17, 1936] [Filed under: R: Individual Correspondence, Box #326.1]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Galpin RE: Is glad to report that Dr. Degard arrived safely on October 1 and is already hard at work. Thanks him for sending Degard to his laboratory. [Filed under: Degard, Charles, 1936-1940: Box #91.1]
• Letter from Lucille to LP, RE: Informs LP that Aunt Anna and Uncle Jim have executed a deed transferring their interest in the Oswego property to LP, Pauling, and herself. Says that she will write LP each year to tell him how much he owes for taxes. Says she will try to get appraisal on the value of the lots and asks what LP would like to have done with the house. Asks if LP would take care of the sexton's fee each year, instead of Uncle Jim. Asks LP to write Uncle Jim. Discusses her week of vacationing. Handwritten note by LP: "$6 sent Ap. 15, 1937." [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.039.26]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pearl Hardwick amount $3 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Note from Hildegard Stklen to LP RE: asking LP to send him a reprint of one of his articles and discusses some of his recent research. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, box #377.6]

• LP Research Notebooks, RNB 09 RE: Electron diffraction data - Thiophene. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 9: 144]

• AHP writes cheque to: Gallenkamp's amount $3.71 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]

• Letter from H. T. Clarke to LP RE: Is sorry to hear that the plans for development of the organic chemistry department have been dropped. [Clarke's first letter: October 2, 1936; LP's letter: October 7, 1936] [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence: Box #66.4]
• Letter from Hugh S. Taylor to LP RE: Asking if LP plans to nominate E. B. Wilson for the Langmuir Award. [LP's reply: October 20, 1936] [Filed under: T: Individual Correspondence, Box #405.6]

• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $3.55 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: C. J. Gould amount $8 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $12.61 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Dr. E. H. McMillan amount $12 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fortner and Loud amount $21.74 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Goode's Seed and Feed amount $10.15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Helen K. Smythe, Treasurer, Book Club amount $5.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Katharine Putnam Crane amount $85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation amount $3.15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Model Grocery Company amount $22.15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $3.20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Company amount $3.91 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Company of California amount $32.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: T. W. Mather Company amount $53.11 [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 submits for consideration for publication his paper, "The Adjacent Charge Rule and the Structure of Methyl nitrate and Fluorine Nitrate." [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Hildegard Stcklen RE: LP explains that Dr. Brockway has prepared electron diffraction photographs of the two 2-butenes and concluded that the decision which Kistiakowsky has made regarding their identification was correct. [Hildegard's note: October 9, 1936] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, box #377.6]
• Letter from LP to J. L. Hoard. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #159.10]

  October 14, 1936

  Dr. J. L. Hoard

  Cornell University

  Ithaca, New York

  Dear Lynn:

  From the indirect news that has reached me by way of Sturdivant, I have learned that you are getting settled satisfactorily at Cornell. I am sure that you will be well pleased with Sturdivant's new tube when yours is completed. The first edition of the tube has been in operation for several months now and has worked very well. Most of the crystal structure work going on in the laboratory now is being done by Helmholz. He is reinvestigating potassium dihydrogen phosphate and silver phosphate, and is also studying (NH₄)₂H₂IO₆, which seems to have a simple structure based on a rhombohedral lattice, and H₅I0₆₊, which has a monoclinic unit 18 A in one direction and about 5 A in the other two. James and I have been devoting so is time to several crystals, all of which have turned out to be more or less disappointing, including B₄C, Ca₃Al₂O₆, CoCl₂.C₆H₁₂N₄.

  I have just run across some good crystals of K₄Mo(CN)₈ which I had thought of investigating with the collaboration of a new graduate student named Dery. It seems to me, however, that you told me that you had begun work on this substance. Would you let me know whether this is so or not, and, if so, what results you have obtained, so that we shall not be duplicating your efforts.

  Please give my regards to Professors Gibbs, Richtmeyer, Johnson, and Kirkwood.

  With best wishes and the hope that we shall meet your wife before too much time goes by, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:ml

• Letter from LP to Professor C. K. Ingold RE: After visiting with Professor Hill who had been visiting Pasadena LP realizes what he will be missing by not going to London. LP mentions that Ingold's papers on benzene in the Journal of the Chemical Society have gotten a lot of interest at CIT. [Filed under: I: Individual Correspondence, Box #181.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor C. S. Schoepfle RE: LP explains that Dr. Brockway will be at Princeton during the Christmas holidays giving lectures at the American Chemical Society Symposium. At this time it will be possible for him to stop in Ann Arbor on his way back to Pasadena. LP wonders if he would still like Brockway to stop by. [Schoepfle's reply: November 5, 1936] [Filed under: S: correspondence, box #377.6]

• Letter from LP to Mr. Barrett, RE: Says that he received notice from his bank that $97.92 had been deposited into his account. Asks what is the nature of this deposit. [Letter from Millikan to LP, 10-16-1936] [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.005.61e]
• Note from David Harker to LP RE: Is sorry to hear about Latimer's son death and reports that he has tried repeatedly to write a letter expressing his sympathy. Informs LP of John Eskijian's address in case he needs to be reached for further questions regarding his work. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #151.10]

• Letter from Robert A. Millikan to LP, RE: Informs him that his letter to Barrett was placed on his desk for reply. Explains that salary given by CIT is not divided up between the different services its staff members do, and therefore LP's new salary began on September 1st since it has no relation to do with his offer to be appointed Chairman of the Division of Chemistry. [Letter from LP to Barrett, 10-15-1936] [Letter from LP to Millikan, 10-17-1936] [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.005.61d]

• Letter from LP to Gerald Wendt RE: Sends LP the manuscript of Herzberg on The Heat of Dissociation of the Carbon Monoxide Molecule and asks for LP's opinion of possible publication. [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5]
• Letter from LP to Professor Millikan, RE: Says that he is pleased to learn that the action of his salary being fixed at $7500 was not invalidated by his refusal of the position of the Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. [Letter from Millikan to LP, 10-16-1936] [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.005.61c]

• Note from Dr. Fred Fairbrother to LP RE: Inquires about the possibility of coming to work in the Chemistry Department. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, 1936, Box #128.2]

• Letter from LP to Dr. S. Gurin RE: Regrets to report that because of the death of Professor Noyes the plans for developing organic chemistry at CIT have been abandoning and thus, no job opportunities are available. [Filed under: G: Correspondence, Box #140.1]
• Letter from LP to G. E. F. Sherwood RE: As requested, LP sends the title for his lecture to be given on November 4. "The Use of Magnetic Methods in Chemistry" will be the topic. [Sherwood's last letter: October 1, 1936] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #375, Folder #375.2]
• Note from Kathleen Lonsdale to LP RE: Informs LP that she has read with great interest his paper on "Diamagnetic Anisotropy of Aromatic Molecules" that appeared in the October issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics. Explains to LP that in correlation with his work she will be publishing a paper of her in about three or four months. [LP's reply: November 10, 1936] [Filed under: L: Individual Correspondence, Box #218.2]

• Letter from C. R. Narayan Rao to LP RE: Informs LP that they wish to publish the supplement to Current Science in book format in hopes that the publication will support future endeavors to build up a Publication fund. [LP's reply: November 25, 1936] [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #340.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. David Harker RE: Is glad to hear that Harker is enthusiastic about his work at Johns Hopkins and informs Harker of what work is being done in the lab at CIT. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #151.10]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Gerald Wendt RE: Suggests to Wendt that a review article covering hydrogen bonding be published. Also, suggests that Mr. Edwin N. Lassettre be invited to submit a manuscript of the subject. [Wendt's response: November 2, 1936] [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5]
• Letter from LP to Professor Frederick G. Keyes RE: Thanks Keyes for giving him two copies of the photograph of the painting of Professor Noyes. Asks if it possible to send several more copies as men in the lab have been requesting them. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor Hugh S. Taylor. [Taylor's letter: October 13, 1936, Taylor's reply: October 26, 1936] [Filed under: T: Individual Correspondence, Box #405.6]

  October 20, 1936

  Professor Hugh S. Taylor

  Department of Chemistry

  Princeton University

  Princeton, New Jersey

  Dear Professor Taylor

  I too would be very glad to see the nomination of E. B. Wilson for the Langmuir Award renewed. Because of the distance from here to Cambridge, and my inability to obtain seven copies of reprints, etc, as well as the probable gaps in my information regarding Wilson's recent work, it seems to me that it would be more appropriate if the nomination this year were to be prepared and submitted by someone at or near Harvard. Do you know of anyone to whom we could suggest this action? If no one at Harvard seems suitable, I feel that it might be wise if you yourself were to prepare the nomination. I shall, of course, be very glad to assist in any way, and in case that you feel that my suggestion is not appropriate, I should do my best to prepare a suitable nomination myself.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:ml

• Letter from LP to Professor Oscar Rice RE: LP sends the reprints Rice asked for in his previous letter. LP is sorry to report that Mrs. Morrill died in September and that just a few weeks ago, Latimer's brother was found shot in the head. [Rice's letter: October 3, 1936] [Filed under: R: Individual Correspondence, Box #329.2]
• Letter from Lynn Hoard to LP RE: Reports to LP what is going on in his own lab and gives a good report of the freshman engineers. [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #159.10]

• AHP writes cheque to: Stage amount $1 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]

• Letter from LP to Carl Tiedcke RE: Explains that Dr. Koepfli has turned over the letter regarding a position as micro chemist and biochemist at the CIT. Regrets to say that there is no opening at present however his letter will be kept on file. [Filed under: T: Correspondence, Box #410.1]

• Letter from V. M. Goldschmidt to LP RE: Asks LP to write a letter discussing the possibility of W. H. Zachariasen receiving a research professorship in Norway and specifically giving him credit for his scientific research while not giving the impression that he is a very expensive experimenter. [Filed under: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #136.19]

• LP Research Notebooks, RNB 09 RE: Electron diffraction data-Ethane. [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 9: 064-065]
• Letter from LP from Mr. S. B. Cunningham RE: LP is glad to suggest the names of several American chemists for consideration as editor of the series of chemistry books. Among them include: Professor Harold C. Urey, Wendell N. Latimer, W. A. Noyes, V. K. LaMer, and H. L. Johnston. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #212, Folder #212.15]

• LP Research Notebooks, RNB 09 RE: Electron diffraction data-Propane. [Filed under lP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 9: 062-063]
• Letter from Frederick G. Keyes to LP RE: Gives LP th information regarding how to get more copies of the prints of picture of Professor Noyes as it may be easier to order them directly from the studio. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200.1]
• Letter from Hugh S. Taylor to LP RE: Explains that he has spoken with Professor Kistiakowsky about nominating Wilson for the Langmuir Award. [LP's last letter: October 20, 1936, LP's reply: November 3, 1936] [Filed under: T: Individual Correspondence, Box #405.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Raymond R. Ridway RE: LP writes that he and Dr. Sturdivant have been investigating crystals of boron carbide and have succeeded in determining the dimensions of the unit of structure and the possible group space symmetry. [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #340.1]

• Letter from S. B. Cunningham to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter suggesting several men as a possible editor for the chemistry series. Asks for more information regarding Wendell M. Latimer. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #212, Folder #212.15]
• Letter from W. A. Noyes to LP RE: Informs LP that it is the unanimous decision of the present members of the Board of editors of the Scientific Monographs of the American Chemical Society that LP should succeed Arthur A. Noyes as member of the Board. [LP's reply: November 2, 1936] [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]

• Letter from Hermann Weyl, the Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics, to LP, RE: Invites LP to come to the School of Mathematics of their Institute as a visiting professor from October 1, 1937 to May 1, 1938. Informs LP that they would pay him a stipend of half his salary and that, although he would have no formal obligation, he would be welcome to give lectures or participate in seminars. [Letter from LP to Weyl, 11-12-1936] [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.005.28]

• Letter from LP to Dr. G. W. Wheland. [Wheland's letter: September 29, 1936] [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #434.7]

  October 30, 1936

  Dr. G. W. Wheland

  Chemistry Laboratory

  University College

  University of London

  Gower Street

  London W.C.1.

  You wrote your last letters to me on August 28 and September 29, which dates I have extrapolated to today as a suitable time for my answer. Actually I have put off writing to you as long as possible because I was ashamed of the small amount of work that I have accomplished on our monograph. By diligent effort during the last few weeks, Mrs. Lassettre and I have now practically completed putting the finishing touches on your manuscript of the first two chapters, and we shall send this material to you soon. I have found considerable difficulty in doing anything on the manuscript because of the amount of work made by the large number of men in the laboratory this year, and also in part because of the general administrative work in the department which is divided among various members of the staff at present. I am hoping that things will clear up somewhat and that I can do a great deal of work on the manuscript before long.

  I am glad that you had a pleasant trip and enjoyed seeing Sweden and Norway, and especially that you missed the catastrophe at Loen. It is fine that you are going to present a paper on resonance at the meeting of the Chemical Society next month, and I hope that you do a good job of upholding the American end. I am pleased that you stopped in New York to see Moe, especially since Brockway is now applying for a Guggenheim Fellowship for the coming year and everything that we can do to help him is called for.

  It is not surprising to me that you find rentals in London high, although I had not remembered that they were quite so high as those that you quote.

  I know that the London Laboratory is a fine one - in fact, it has the reputation of being the best one in England. I wish that you would look around in order to see whether the funds available for research are comparable with the equipment at hand. I having had the opinion that the department was rather hard up for ready money. Would you also let me know as to what researches are under way and what the major interests of the people in London are? I am sending you a copy of Brockway's article. There is nothing much else in the way of new reprints that you might be interested in here, but on a chance I am including the article that Mirsky and I wrote on the denaturation of proteins.

  Hampson and Springall, the new Commonwealth Fellows from Oxford, have both expressed their disappointment at not having found you here. It is clear from what they say that you have a great reputation in England, and I am expecting you to live up to it by saying something once in awhile and not keeping perfectly quiet.

  With best regards to you and Mrs. Wheland, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

• Letter from LP to Mr. S. B. Cunningham RE: LP recommends Professor Wendell M. Latimer of the University of California for appointment at Prentice-Hall, Inc. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #212, Folder #212.15]

• Letter from LP to Dr. E. Bright Wilson, Jr. RE: Discusses his lectures on quantum mechanics and the recent work he has been doing. Asks if Howard took the job at Princeton or if he is staying in Cambridge. [Bright's reply: November 10, 1936] [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. V. Medlin RE: LP offers his opinion and suggestions for his work. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor N. V. Sidgwick RE: Thanks LP for sending Hampson and Springhall to him. He has been very impressed with their work as they have added a lot of talent to the research group. Sidgwick speaks highly of L. O. Brockway and informs LP that he will be applying for a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. [Filed under: Sidgwick, N. V. Box #364.1]