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Letter from Linus Pauling to William C. Boyd. Page 1. January 9, 1941

Letter from Linus Pauling to William C. Boyd. January 9, 1941. Page 1 Larger Images / More Information. 1 p. View Transcript

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Federal Union Inc. Headquarters Bulletin No 9. Union Now Marches On. [Filed under Publications re: Union Now/Federal Union, Inc., 1940-1941: Box # 5.009, Folder 9.6]
Letter from LP to Dr. Leslie Bliss RE: Informs him of the travel allowances provided by the Federal Government and the Guggenheim Foundation. [Letter from Bliss to LP January 4, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.8, file:(B: Correspondence, 1941)]
Letter from LP to Erle Billings RE: Sends names of the students who have not yet received national defense questionnaires. [Field under LP Correspondence: Box #37.8, file:(B: Correspondence, 1940)]
Letter from LP to Prof. H. I. Schlesinger, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Chicago, RE: Agrees to the schedule of lectures proposed by Schlesinger and gives the titles and descriptions of the two courses. States he is uncomfortable with the structure of the diborane molecule Schlesinger described in the past letter. [Letters from H. I. Schlesinger to LP January 3, 1941, January 20, 1941] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #357.7]
Note from Dr. Max Delbrück to LP. [Letter from LP to Delbrück January 20, 1940] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #92.1, file:(Delbrück, Max, 1940-1941)]

Jan 7, 1941

Dear Pauling,

I had a letter from Jordan, from Nov. 13. He is in the army since the beginning of the war, and his forwarding address is: c/o Pastor Finke, Rolandstrasse 9, Bremen. Probably he is now busy quenching? the fires. He would like to have a reprint of your antibody paper. Apparently he cannot send any of his papers, because there seems to be a prohibition on sending printed matter out of Germany. Apparently he does not feel very much [?] by our note in Science, because he says he does not believe in the resonance idea very much any how

You showed no reaction to the Frank-Kamenetzky proposal of synthesis by resonance between the reaction product and an intermediate activated state. I was X-mas in Princeton and talked it over with Wigner who saw no serious objection to it. One could probably test it by experiment without to much difficulty.

April 4 and 5 we are going to have a meeting here of the Southeastern Phycists, nothing to brag about. But we are trying to pep it up by a symposium on molecular structure, with Miss Sponer, Teller, H. H. Nieben, Brockway And Placzek. If an Eastern trip of yours would coincide with this date you would be most enthusiastically welcome to participate.

With best regards,

Max

Postcard from J. Bernstein to LP RE: Requests reprints. (Note in pen: Sent 1/21/41 BRC) [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.8, file:(B: Correspondence, 1941)]

Research Notebook of LP, RNB 19R, p. 5 RE: Rate of Reaction of S2O8-- and 2I- → 2SO4– + I2.