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• Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 14 RE: Calibration of tube used in measurements [by Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 14: 044]

• AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. Robert Dery amount $11.66 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP and J. Sherman. "A quantitative discussion of bond orbitals." Journal of the American Chemical Society 89: 1450-1456. Received for publication June 1, 1937; published August 1937. [Filed under LP Publications: Box 1937p, Folder 1937p.7]
• LP writes cheque to: Linwood Vick amount $36.01 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP to Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Sciences-The Rockefeller Foundation. [Weaver's letter to LP May 19, 1937; Weaver's reply to LP June 8, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 5]

  June 1, 1937

  Dr. Warren Weaver

  The Rockefeller Foundation

  49 West 49^th Street, New York

  New York, New York

  Dear Warren:

  I am glad to have your advice regarding the revision of our application for grants in support of work in organic and structural chemistry and in biology. Professor Morgan will write to you regarding biology; I understand that he proposes to apply for $10,000 a year for a five-year period, and also to suggest the possibility of obtaining support for Dr. Haagen-Smit’s researches after this year. I have begun the preparation of a more detailed and considered description of the chemistry project. Would it be satisfactory to you if the revised application were submitted in July (after Dr. Millikan’s return), or should its preparation be made less leisurely? In the meantime I would hope to benefit by your advice on several points, one of which is the following.

  As the result of your kindness in calling him to our attention, we shall have Dr. Carl Niemann as one member of our enlarged staff in organic chemistry. As you know, Dr. Todd of the Lister Institute is also being considered; the chance that he could be brought here seems, however, to be small. I have been looking for other organic chemists who might be suited to our needs, and have felt that both R. R. Williams and Roger J. Williams might be well worthy of serious consideration. It has seemed improbable that R. R. Williams would leave his present position with the Bell Laboratories. However, during a recent visit to Corvallis I learned from Roger Williams about plans which he and his brother are making which throw new light on the situation.

  Roger Williams is in line to be made the head of the chemistry department at Oregon State in a year or two. With a few exceptions, the quality of the staff is very poor, and the financial and political situation is such as to make the prospect of improving the department small. He feels that his acceptance of this appointment would lead to an uninspiring and uninteresting life of routine administration, but that on the other hand his situation in the college would be unsatisfactory if he were not to accept it. He would prefer to carry on research more intensively than he has been able to in the past, rather than less intensively. R. R. Williams also would like the opportunity to devote himself whole-heartedly to research such as that which he has carried out on vitamin B1, and he would be willing (according to Roger) to resign his $20,000 job and accept a research position at a salary of about $5,000. Roger has in mind a proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation that a new institution for biochemical research be founded, perhaps in the Northwest, where Roger and R. R. Could carry on their work.

  I doubt whether your Foundation would be inclined to favor this proposal, involving the permanent endowment of a new institution. It is possible, however, that our own plans for developing organic chemistry at the California Institute could be carried out with R. R. Williams, Roger Williams, and Niemann as the newprofessors. I have a high opinion of Roger Williams, based on his significant research contributions despite a heavy teaching load, his authorship of two good textbooks, and his pleasant and retiring personality (which has not prevented him from being aggressive in research), and I feel sure that he would fit in well here. I have met R. R. Williams only once; I would rate him on the basis of his vitamin B₁ research as an able organic chemist and on the basis of his position in the Bell Laboratories as a man who does his work effectively. The problems in which the two men are interested, vitamins and growth hormones, are important ones, in which further great developments may occur soon, and they fit in well with Went and Koepfli’s work on plant growth hormones already under way here. I am accordingly inclined to think that Roger Williams may have the qualities that we want, and that they might be brought into our plan. Would you give us the benefit of the information you have regarding them, and especially of your own opinion regarding the men themselves and the part that they would play in our project?

  If these men were to come here, working on vitamin and hormone researches, our organic work would lie in the following fields:

  1. Vitamin B₁ and similar substances: R. R. Williams and assistants; also Dr. E. R. Buchman, formerly assistant to Williams, who will begin work here June 9, 1937, with a Ph. D. assistant (Dr. Richardson of Johns Hopkins), on the synthesis of substances closely similar to B₁, hoping to find some with B₁ activity. Dr. Buchman receives no salary, having a private income; his assistant’s salary is paid by the Research Corporation.

  2. Pantothenic acid and other water-soluble growth substances: Roger J. Williams and assistants (see attached sheets).

  3. The relation between structure and activity in the heteroauxins and other plant growth hormones: Dr. J. B. Koepfli, in collaboration with Professor F. W. Went and Dr. Haagen-Smit of the Division of Biology.

  4. The isolation, structure investigation, and synthesis of the bean-test hormone: Dr. James English, Jr., Lalor Fellow, in collaboration with Professor Went.

  5. The structure of proteins and carbohydrates: Professor Carl Niemann and assistants, with the aid, I hope, of the group working in structural chemistry.

  6. Researches in general organic chemistry, especially of the olefins: Professor H. J. Lucas and students.

  7. Applications of the work in molecular structure to organic chemistry.

  The first four of these fields are very closely related. I feel that this concentration of effort may be an advantage. Niemann and Lucas keep the specialization from being complete. What is your opinion of this plan?

  I am enclosing a copy of a description of Roger Williams’ general program which he sent to me, at my suggestion, after my talk with him in Corvallis. I made no intimation to him, of course, of the idea of including him in our project.

  With best regards and sincere thanks for your kind advice, I am

  Cordially yours,

  Linus Pauling

• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $5.62 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Bode's amount $30.70 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: C. J. Gould amount $16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $9.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Collector of Internal Revenue amount $26.55 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co., amount $14.43 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: EdW. Hopkins County Assessor amount $7.95 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: F.C. Nash Co., amount $0.71 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fortner and Land, Inc., amount $5.18 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Katharine Putnam Crane amount $85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Lola Cook amount $60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Co., amount $6.03 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Polytechnic Elementary School amount $2.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Co., amount $2.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Co., of California amount $3.63 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Olga Woolf, Ltd., amount $20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Dr. Paul Emmett to LP RE: Thanks LP for his previous letter congratulating him being named Professor of Chemical and Gas Engineering. Discusses briefly his work and comments on the book LP is working on. [LP's letter May 27, 1937] [Filed under: Emmett, Paul, 1937-1959, Box #109.1]
• Letter from Frank Blair Hanson, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: The Foundation is notifying Carl G. Niemann that he has been awarded a fellowship not to exceed 12 months beginning approximately July 1, 1937 to enable him to continue his work at the Rockefeller Institute and then to study abroad. Same letter to Millikan. [LP's reply to Hanson June 10, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 5]
• Letter from LP to Dean Frank C. Whitmore RE: LP explains that he wrote to Dr. Sherman not too long ago and offered him a position as assistant in connection with the work on molecular structure. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. A. A. Ketelaar RE: LP is glad to hear that he is coming to America and that he is planning on spending a month and a half at CIT. LP informs Ketelaar where he might stay and for how much during this time. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200.2]
• Letter from LP to Howard. [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #165.2]

  June 2, 1937

  Dear Howard:

  Could you give me an estimate, as detailed as you can make it, of the following items:

  (1) The cost of all equipment except permanent furniture such as chemical desks and hoods for organic research as we are contemplating it, for 4 professors including yourself, 3 or 4 men such as Koepfli, National Research Fellows, etc., and about 10 new graduate students. Please put individual items such as centrifuges, microbalances, etc., as far as possible.

  (2) The annual cost of chemicals and supplies for this group assuming that extensive researches are to be carried out on biological substances. I suppose the cost of solvents, for example, would be appreciable.

  (3) The cost of all organic books that we should have to bring our library into first class shape in this regard. Should we have any additional journals also?

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling.

  LP:mrl

• Letter from LP to Miss Little RE: LP asks if it is possible for Mr. Eugene Eyster to make use of Athenaeum board and room during the period of July 20 to August 20 instead of June 10 to July 10 this summer. [Filed under: L: Correspondence, Box #230.3]
• Letter from Miss Bessie Little to LP RE: Informs LP that it will be ok for Mr. Schomaker to have room and board at the Athenaeum under his fellowship during the period of July 20-August 20. [Filed under: Schomaker, Verner, Box #359.1]
• Letter from N. V. Sidgwick to LP RE: Sidgwick accepts LP's offer to stay with him, during his visit to Pasadena. He hopes to arrive in Pasadena sometime between July 20th and 31st. Sidgwick's last letter: May 12, 1937] [Filed under: Sidgwick, N. V. Box #364.1]
• Letter from T. H. Morgan to Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Science-Rockefeller Foundation, cc: LP RE: Thanks Weaver for his copy of letter to LP of May 10, 1937. Morgan still stands by his request for $10,000 to support the technical assistance in biochemistry and physiology and since this is impossible for the year beginning July 1, 1937, he requests it for the following year. [LP Science Box 14.048, Folder 5]

• Letter from LP to Mr. H. H. Harrison RE: Is very sorry to tell you that there is no opening in the Department of Chemical Engineering at this time. [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #165.2]
• Letter from Miss Bessie Little to LP RE: Little says that it will be quite satisfactory for Mr. Eugene Eyster to make use of the Athenaeum board and room during the period of July 20 to August 20. [Filed under: L: Correspondence, Box #230.3]
• Letter from Mr. Thomas McQuistion RE: Asks LP to do some water testing and how much it would cost to do so. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255.4]
• Letter from William G. Young to LP RE: Thanking LP for his letter regarding the treatment of the system of two conjugated double bonds. [LP's letter to Young: May 27, 1937] [Filed under: Y: Individual Correspondence, Box #460.4]
• Note from J. G. Kirkwood to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter and is disappointed that nothing can be with secondary butyl alcohol. He had hoped that the electron diffraction work would help. [Filed under: K: Individual Correspondence, Box #198.12]

• Edward Crellin Pauling born, weighing 9 pounds 4 ounces.
• LP writes cheque to: Boys Scouts of America amount $4 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Marjorie R. Lassettre, Secretary, to Isabel C. Weeks, Librarian, RE: Explains that he reprints by Paul C. Cross has been exhausted and recommends contacting Cross directly. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]

• Note from John Y. Beach to LP RE: speaks of his work with ketones his first compound and the results of it. Offers to publish their work together because they are both working on ketones and offers to send his results. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #27.1, file: (Beach, John Y.)]

• Letter from LP to Mrs. Dickinson RE: LP acknowledges the check of $50 for the loan repayment and is happy to hear that Neil is enjoying his work in South America. LP suggests that she and their little boy also go to Colombia. [Oleta's letter: May 24, 1937, Oleta's next note: September 2, 1937] [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.2]

• LP writes cheque to: American Chemical Society amount $20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Henry Gilman to LP RE: Reports to LP that Dr. H. T. Clarke speaks very highly of his chapter. [Filed under: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #136.11]
• Letter from LP to Mr. William F. Baird RE: Explains that LP has already heard of the mineral collections at Red Rock Canyon and doesn't believe there is anything of interest to him. Regrets that they will not be able to accept his invitation to visit Baird during their regular scheduled visits because AHP is still in the hospital with their new baby boy. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.4, file: 1937]
• Letter from Walter Soller to LP RE: thanking him for his cooperation in assisting to fill the position of Chemistry Instructor. They will make their decision by the end of the month. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377.7]
• Note from George Wheland to LP RE: Wheland summarizes his work on the structure of benzene and also his work with the oxidation-reduction potentials of quinones and the ultraviolet absorption. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #434.7]
• Note from H. A. Kramers to LP RE: Mentions to LP what a wonderful man Dr. Ketelaar is and how much he should appreciate that he will be coming this summer. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200.2]

• Letter from D. W. Hansen to LP RE: Asks for LP's reprint of the article by Dr. Mirksy and LP. [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #165.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. Lynn Hoard. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #159.10]

  June 8, 1937

  Dr. Lynn Hoard

  110 College Avenue

  Ithaca, New York

  Dear Lynn:

  Your letter has waited a month for answering, because of various demands on my time. I have no special desires regarding books, other than the usual crystal structure books including Strukturberichte 1, 2, and 3. My lectures probably will not require the use of many crystal models. I should, however, be glad to have on my desk a 20-inch slide rule, and I should also like very much to have available for the exclusive use of Jack Sherman, who will probably come with me, an electric calculating machine, preferably either a new automatic Marchand or Monroe. Your department might well consider this expenditure of around six hundred dollars unjustified, however, and we would be satisfied if a machine were available for us part of the time.

  The Crellin Laboratory is similar to Gates and is located on the west side of the library unit. It will have five stories, three as in Gates, and a third floor in place of attic and a sub-basement. Concrete has been poured up to the floor of the first floor. A biology building and two geology buildings, completing the borders of the planned reflecting pool, are also being built.

  We have a new baby boy, born on June 4. So far he has not been named.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

• Letter from LP to Professor W. A. Noyes RE: LP has no suggestions to make regarding an editor for the planned Monograph on Laboratory technique. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]
• Letter from Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Acknowledgment of receipt of LP's letter of June 1, 1937. [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 5]

• LP writes cheque to: Cornell University Press amount $1.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Frank C. Whitmore to LP RE: Thanks LP for giving Dr. Jack Sherman a position at CIT, for the time being. He would find it a shame to let his knowledge and experience go to waste. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]
• Letter from J. C. Warner RE: Thanking LP for the reports regarding the library facilities at CIT. [LP's letter: May 27, 1937] [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]
• Letter from W. E. Tisdale, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Tisdale congratulates LP on his new position as Director of the Gates Chemical Laboratory. [LP's reply June 29, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 6]
• Research notebooks of LP, RNB 14 RE: Cyanuric acid; trisodium cyanurate [by Fred Stitt] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 14: 042]

• LP writes cheque to: Milton Durby amount $2.85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Edgar A. Whiting to LP RE: Informs LP of arrangements that could be made at the University Club during his stay at Cornell. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Paul Emmett RE: Thanks Emmett for his letter congratulating him on his new appointment at CIT. LP goes on to explain that a new laboratory, the Crellin Lab, is under way. Looks forward to seeing Emmett during his time at Cornell. [Filed under: Emmett, Paul, 1937-1959, Box #109.1]
• Letter from LP to Frank Blair Hanson, The Rockefeller Foundation RE: LP is pleased to learn of Carl Niemann's fellowship. [Hanson's letter to LP June 2, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 5]
• Letter from LP to John Y. Beach RE: explains it is not ketone he is working with but with alleno. However he would be interested in knowing his results on ketones. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #27.1, file: (Beach, John Y.)]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Barrett RE: LP asks that he would revise an attached letter, as he sees fit. And asks whether it should be signed by himself? [Filed under: N: Correspondence, Box #287.4]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Thomas McQuiston RE: LP regrets to report that he is not in a position to make an analysis of the water from the spring. LP suggests that he go to a testing laboratory. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor J. E. Lennard-Jones RE: Thanks Lennard-Jones for his kind letter. LP encloses a table summarizing the results of his work on electron diffraction study of hydrocarbons. [Lennard-Jones' letter: May 26, 1937] [Filed under: L: Individual Correspondence, Box #215.4]

• Letter from John R. Lapham to LP RE: Congratulates LP for his new appointment as Director of the Gates Chemical Laboratories. [Filed under: L: Correspondence, Box #230.3]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Howard A. Poillon, President Research Corporation, Chrysler Building, RE: LP writes in support of Dr. Edwin R. Buchman's request for a grant of $2500 for his work on Vitamin B1. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #33.2, file: (Buchman, Edwin R. 1936-1960)]
• Letter from W. A. Noyes to Clark, Fieser, Lind and LP RE: Noyes shares with the Board what Professor P. A. Shaffer wrote regarding the possibility of writing a Monograph on the Metabolism of Carbohydrates. Shaffer writes that although he thinks the idea is splendid however he could not be author because he is doing administrative work in the medical school. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]

• Typescript: Progress at the California Institute of Technology, by Allan C. Balch, President of the Board of Trustees. [Review given at the Commencement Exercises on June 11, 1937] [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 2, Folder 2.006.32]

• Letter from LP to Dr. N. E. Dorsey RE: LP Requests that any information or suggestions for methods for preventing supercooling of water by adding other solid substances that would induce crystallization of ice. [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.2]

• Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Lamb encloses all correspondence pertinent to Professor's Giauque's paper (which the editors feel needs some alteration) and would like LP's input on the situation. [Previous letter re: Giauque's MS May 26, 1937; LP's reply June 26, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 3]

• Letter from LP to Dean John R. Lapham RE: LP thanks Lapham for his letter about LP's new position. [Filed under: L: Correspondence, Box #230.3]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Edgar A. Whiting RE: LP thinks the rate at the Willard Straight Hall are too high to pay considering there isn't a private bath. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Fogg RE: Informing him that Mr. John E. Parker will serve during the coming summer as research assistant to Professor D. M. Yost. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, 1937, Box #128.3]
• Letter from LP to Mr. W. D. Leech, Australian Food Research Laboratories RE: LP is glad that he is developing plans for graduate work in the United States and believes study under Professor Bailey would be a good choice. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #277.5]
• Letter from LP to Professor N. V. Sidgwick. [Filed under: Sidgwick, N. V. Box #364.1]

  June 16, 1937

  Professor N. V. Sidgwick

  Cosmopolital Hotel

  Denver, Colorado

  I am afraid that I shall have to withdraw my invitation to stay with us as a house guest. We have a new baby in the family, born last week, and my wife's health has not been as good as usual, so that it seems wise for us to live as simple a life as possible during the next few weeks. I am sure that pleasant quarters are available at the Athenaeum, and if you would write to me as soon as you learn exactly when you are to arrive here, I shall reserve a room for you there. If you come by train from the North, please let me know the time of your arrival so that I can meet the train at Glendale.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:mrl

• Letter from LP to Professor W. A. Noyes RE: LP approves of asking Professor and Mrs. Cori to prepare a Monograph on the metabolism of carbohydrates as recommended by Professor Shaffer. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]
• Letter from Ludvig Hektoen, Secretary, Fellowships Board in the Natural Sciences, National Research Council to Robert Millikan, Chairman of the Exec. Council, C. I. T. cc: LP RE: Informing Millikan that three of the men appointed to National Research Fellowships will be conducting their Fellowship activities at C. I. T. [LP Science Box 14.027, Folder 2]
• Letter from W. A. Noyes to LP RE: Asks LP if he can name anyone else to write on x-ray spectra who would be willing to write for the Board. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]
• Letter from Warren Weaver, Director of The Natural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Weaver is leaving the office for an absence of two months and therefore is providing LP with tentative feedback about his proposal of hiring on the two Williams brothers (which he does not think is a wise idea) before he leaves. [LP's reply June 21, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 8]

• Letter from Albert E. Jennings, Jr. To LP RE: Asks LP for a reprint of the recent paper presented at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi. [Filed under: J: Correspondence, Box #192.4]
• Letter from D. M. Wrinch to LP RE: Asks if it would be possible to see LP in the East at Cornell, before February 15th. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.12]
• Letter from W. H. Zachariasen to LP RE: Congratulates LP on being chose as the new Director of the Chemistry Department. Also, informs LP that despite illness, they hope to be in Pasadena round July 1st. [Filed under: Z: Individual Correspondence, Box #464.1]

• LP writes cheque to: W & J. Sloane amount $116.13 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]

• LP writes cheque to: Collis P. And Howard Huntington Memorial Hospital amount $108.30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Dorothy Litchfield amount $18 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Dr. J. M. Wilson amount $25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: H. Johnson amount $4.89 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Helen J. Price amount $24 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Margaret J. Haight amount $30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Market Basket amount $6.22 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Harry Goresline to LP RE: Congratulates LP on his promotion and is pleased to learn he will be going to Cornell in the fall. [Filed under: G: Correspondence, Box #140.2]

• LP writes cheque to: Cleveland Publications amount $2.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from E. Bright Wilson, Jr. to LP RE: Congratulates LP and AHP on the new baby. Is impressed that LP is working on another book as well. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Herbert N. McCoy RE: LP thanks McCoy for his letter of congratulations regarding his new appointment. Also, LP explains that AHP is due to return home from the hospital with their new baby boy, named Edward Crellin Pauling. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Warren Weaver, Director of The Natural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation RE: Thanks Weaver for his letter of June 16, 1937 and agrees that it would be imprudent to hire the Williams brothers. He will continue his search for an organic chemist and prepare his grant application to the Foundation which he will send in upon Weaver's return. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 8]
• Letter from LP to Henry Gilman RE: Was pleased to learn that Professor Clarke enjoyed his chapter and informs LP that he will be in Pasadena all summer until September when he leaves for Cornell. [Filed under: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #136.11]
• Letter from LP to Mr. D. P. Mellor RE: LP looks forward to talk over the problems addressed in his previous letter. Feels it would be worthwhile to attempt to verify some of his compounds through physical work. [Mellor's letter: May 25, 1937] [Filed under: M: Individual Correspondence, Box #246.7]
• Letter from LP to Professor Kramers RE: LP thanks Kramers for his letter and looks forward to seeing Ketelaar this summer. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200.2]
• Letter from N. Ernest Dorsey to LP RE: Regrets to say that he does not have the information requested in LP's letter of June 12. [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.2]

• LP writes cheque to: Boy Scouts of American amount $11.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Ralph Hultgren to LP RE: Hultgren congratulates LP for his appointment as Director to succeed Dr. Noyes. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #163.3]

• LP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $21.51 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Prudential Life Insurance Co., amount $10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery to LP RE: Asks if it is possible for LP to make definite plans to stop in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska etc, en route between Cornell and Pasadena. [Filed under: E: Correspondence, 1930, 1936-1959, Box #112.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Albert E. Jennings Jr. RE: Apologizes that he will not be able to send a copy of the paper on "The Use of Magnetic Methods in Chemistry" because he prepared the talk without making use of a manuscript. [Filed under: J: Correspondence, Box #192.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Harry Goresline RE: Thanks Goresline and Lucile for writing and informs them that he will be bringing the children when he visits. [Filed under: G: Correspondence, Box #140.2]
• Note from Oliver Wulf to LP RE: Thanks LP for his last letter and is glad to learn that Dick Badger is planning to discuss Albert Shermans' arguments in paper. Reports that his infrared work is in progress again. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]

• Note from John Y. Beach to LP RE: Thanks LP for his results on the table of data he sent and explains his own work and findings on ketones. Regrets to say he will not make it to California during the summer to help Brockway on their paper and asks that LP tell Brockway of his change of plans. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #27.1, file: (Beach, John T.)]

• LP writes cheque to: Edwin Porter amount $6 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: H.M. Davis amount $25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society. [Previous letter re: Giauque June 15, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 3]

  Professor Arthur B. Lamb, Editor

  Journal of the American Chemical Society

  Chemical Laboratory of Harvard University

  12 Oxford Street

  Cambridge, Mass.

  Dear Professor Lamb:

  In recommending that Tables XV to XVIII in the manuscript of Giauque and Kemp be omitted, I was actuated to a considerable extent by the belief that the calculations underlying them were not extremely extensive and that the tables contained errors. Now that Professor Giauque has pointed out that this belief was wrong and that it rested on a mistake in the manuscript in connection with Equation 14, I withdraw my earlier recommendation, and recommend instead that the manuscript be accepted for publication, after Professor Giauque has made the corrections which he mentions in his letter. I believe that it would be satisfactory to omit Table III and to replace tables X, XI, and XVI by summaries, as suggested by Professor Giauque.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

• Letter from Carl Niemann to LP RE: Is pleased to report that plans for the coming year are coming together nicely and that Foundation has granted him a fellowship beginning July 1. [LP's reply: June 6, 1937] [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #277.5]
• Letter from LP to Dean George H. Whipple, University of Rochester School of Medicine RE: Recommends Throfin R. Hogness for the position of Head of the Department of Chemistry. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #162.5]
• Letter from LP to Professor L. A. Du Bridge, copy to Dean George H. Whipple, RE: LP recommends Professor Thorfin R. Hogness to serve as Head of the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester. [DuBridge's reply: June 30, 1937] [Filed under D: Individual Correspondence. (Dil-Dyson): Box #96.16]

• Letter from LP to DR. J. G. Kirkwood RE: Thanks Kirkwood for his answer to the question about the dipole polarization energy. [Filed under: K: Individual Correspondence, Box #198.12]
• Letter from LP to Dr. D. M. Wrinch RE: LP looks forward to seeing Wrinch in Cornell before February first. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.12]
• Letter from LP to Dr. E. Bright Wilson, Jr. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.5]

  June 29, 1937

  Dr. E. Bright Wilson, Jr.

  12 Oxford Street

  Cambridge, Massachusetts

  Dear Bright:

  I am sorry to not to be able to come to Rochester for your big occasion. Stitt, too, seems to think that he can't get away quite that early, but he may change his mind.

  Helen and I thank you and Emily for your congratulations. The baby is getting along very well. At present he is the only child in the house, Peter and Linda being at Corona del Mar for a two weeks' vacation with Lola and Linus at Catalina with the Boy Scouts.

  It is fine that you have two National Research Fellows to work with you next year, and I am sure that you will make much progress with your large group of research men.

  I haven't any explanation for the low distance in formaldehyde. For several months I have been trying to get Brockway to photograph it, and he once promised to do so before leaving. Have Dieke and Kisty done heavy formaldehyde? The old formaldehyde C-O distance can be brought up to around 1.22 by varying the C-H distance suitably.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

• Letter from LP to Dr. Fred Fairbrother RE: Is glad to learn that he is having a pleasant journey across the country. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, 1937, Box #128.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Ralph Hultgren RE: LP thanks Hultgren for his kind letter regarding his new appointment. Looks forward to seeing Hultgren this summer. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, box #163.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. E. Tisdale, The Rockefeller Foundation RE: Thanking Tisdale for his letter of congratulations on LP's new position. The Crellin Laboratory is now under construction and everyone is looking forward to a period of continued activity in chemical research. [Tisdale's letter to LP June 9, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 6]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Barrett, C. I. T. RE: LP recommends certain changes be made in the appointments of April 23, 1937 for appropriations from the Rockefeller Fund. [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Mr. William F. Baird RE: Tells Baird that he has just learned from Dr. Ernest L. Dorsey of the Bureau of Standard that he knows of no substances other than ice itself which will prevent supercooling in water. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.4, file: 1937]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter of June 23 and discusses the possible honoraria that are given to speakers. [LP's response: 75-37] [Filed under: E: Correspondence, 1930, 1936-1959. Box #112.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor William Lloyd Evans RE: The availability of Edwin N. Lassettre to teach mathematical chemistry for freshman. LP recommends him for the position. [Filed under: E: Individual Correspondence. (Enstom-Eyering) Box #110.3]
• Letter from Lee A. DuBridge to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter regarding Hogness. Ensures that Hogness will be considered for the position. [Filed under: D: Individual Correspondence. (Dil-Dyson). Box #96.16]