Activity Listings
- Letter from LP to Dean LW Jones RE: Provides opinion of the questions for the chemistry examination being prepared for the Measurement and Guidance Project in Engineering Education [Filed under California Institute of Technology: Materials re: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1933-1963, No Date: Box #1.024, Folder 24.10]
- Letter from LP to Dean LW Jones RE: Submits the mimeograph stencil for the freshman entrance examination in chemistry, which was prepared by Mr. WH Eberhardt, Instructor in Chemistry. [Filed under California Institute of Technology: Materials re: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1933-1963, No Date: Box #1.024, Folder 24.10]
- Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, Guggenheim Foundation. RE: Encloses a letter from Karl Paul Link. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1925-1945: Box #14.013 Folder #13.18]
- Letter from LP to John A. Behnke, W. B. Saunders Company. RE: Informs him that he will not be attending the Cleveland meeting. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.003 Folder #3.2]
- Letter from LP to Lt. Kenneth D. Johnson RE: Sends a set of reprints of his papers on immunochemistry. Comments on work at Cal Tech and looks forward Johnson's return after the war. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #192.11, file:(J: Correspondence, 1944)]
- Letter from Linus Pauling Jr to AHP RE: Says he will be getting out of the hospital tomorrow. Speaks about the air corps falling to pieces with no more enlistments. He has discovered that he likes Eugene O'Neill and he is excited to leave once he receives his transfer. Discusses his skin treatment. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Linus Carl Pauling, Jr. 1930-1944: Box #5.036, Folder 36.5]
March 31, 1944
Dear Mom
I'm getting out of the hospital tomorrow. I hope I find my transfer to the medical
detachment waiting.
The air corps has fallen completely to pieces. No more cadet enlistments, no more air
combat crew enlistments nothing. That means the big shots think that there are enough men in
training to satisfy all our needs. So there is no chance of advancement in the air corps ratings
have been frozen for a long time anyway. So I would be well out of it.
I have discovered that I like Eugene O'Neill or perhaps I've just gotten to the state in
which I enjoy reading plays. I read one play of O'Neill's a long time ago, but I didn't like it so
I've steered clear since. But now his ideas are very interesting.
It seems incredible that I wasted five months in this God forsaken country. I certainly
hope I am sent to a decent climate.
I sun-bathed for a couple of hours yesterday and actually achieved a reasonably accurate
facsimile of a sunburn sort of splotchy, but real. Reminds me of home.
I went to skin clinic (did I tell you? I've forgotten) and was given some green soap,
some sort of sulfa-laden lotion, and an injection of a cc of sterile milk. Supposedly the foreign
protein has some effect. The minor surface infections cleared up rapidly, but the larger deep
nested ones are still bad. It's a start in the right direction however.
Keep in shape and don't try to do too much.
All my love,
Linus
- Letter from Pauline H. Eason, Acting Chief, Contract Section, Office of Scientific Research and Development, to E. C. Barrett, Comptroller, California Institute of Technology. RE: Enclosed a signed copy of contract number OEMsr 584, Supp. No. 3. [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work - Materials re: the Pauling Oxygen Meter, 1940-1947: Box #13.001 Folder #1.1]
- Payroll stub from California Institute of Technology (period ending Mar 31 ‘44) and Bank of America deposit slip for $673.73 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.068, folder 68.2]
- Writes cheque to "H.L. Byram, County Tax Collector," $180.65. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial, Box 4.017, Folder 17.2]
- Writes cheque to “HL Byram. 2nd inst. 1943 taxes” $180.65 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.3]
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