Activity Listings
- Letter from Beth Wilson, Executive Editor, Science, to LP RE: States she has seen a recent statement that LP has made about the ACS needing to work continually on improving chemists' pay and conditions of employment. Asks him if he would be willing to write an article about this for their journal. [Letter from LP to Miss Beth Wilson August 15, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #374.6]
- Letter from George E. Farrand to Dr. Lee A. DeBridge, President, Cal Tech, RE: Thanks him for allowing LP and Beadle to carry out work through the “Laurabelle Arms Robinson Cancer Endowment Fund.” Notes the income for that fund and the Henry M. Robinson Trust for the year. [Letter from Farrand to Beadle and LP July 19, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #117.6, file:(Farrand, George E.)]
- Letter from LP to Dr. E.C. Kleiderer, Eli Lilly and Company, RE: Mentions his trip to Boston to see his son. Sends a statement about his traveling expenses to Indianapolis for reimbursement, which total $150.00. Adds that he has heard Stanley Swingle has accepted an appointment with Eli Lilly and Co. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #111.4, file:(Eli Lilly and Company, 1946-1951, 1953-1956, 1964-1968, 1970-1972)]
- Letter from LP to Prof. Werner Nowacki, Universität Bern, RE: States he is pleased that Nowacki was given an appointment. Adds that Zechmeister has recovered and may still visit Switzerland. Discusses work on DL-threonine at the Cal Tech labs. [Letter from Nowacki to LP June 19, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #277.15, file:(Nowacki, Werner)]
- Letter from LP to W.F. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP is getting anxious to know what Freeman's opinion of his manuscript will be. He asks if Freeman would object to seeing sections from "General Chemistry" in "College Chemistry." [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1950b.1]
- Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP has finished ten chapters of "College Chemistry," and would like to know if Freeman would prefer to review the ten chapters as they are or to wait for the first 12 or 15 chapters. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1950b.1]
- Letter from LP to Wilbur H. Miller. RE: Thanks him for his letter. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1949-1950: Box #14.005 Folder #5.1]
- Letter to LP and G.W. Beadle from George E. Farrand, Attorney, RE: States that he is enclosing a copy of the letter that he wrote to Dr. DuBridge which he wrote after reading a statement that refers to the “Laurabelle Arms Robinson Endowment and the Cancer Problem”. [Letter from LP to Farrand July 20, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #117.6, file:(Farrand, George E.)]
- Memo from LP to Dr. David P. Shoemaker RE: Suspects that Mr. Knop is going to take more photographs of NaCd2, which he finds unnecessary at this point. Asks Shoemaker to look into it. [Filed under LP Correspondence: #363.3]
- Memorandum from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP is uncertain as to the suggestion of Steiner as an author of a general chemistry text. He would prefer to see the text written by a younger man, of the California school. He has no objection to the Deming "quizbook" and encourages Freeman to publish it. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b6.1]
- Memorandum from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP would like to have Malm's opinion about the use of "molality" vs. "molarity."[Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b6.1]
- Newspaper clipping: "Chemist Honored," The Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 1949. [Filed under LP Biographical: Political Issues, 2.032]
- Writes cheque to “Nat Ac” $10.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.074, folder 74.1, item 2]
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