Letter from Linus Pauling to Talitha Gerlach. November 29, 1949. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Itinerary: Cleveland. Lunch with Dr. and Mrs. William von Fischer, Case Institute of Technology; dinner at Hotel Charter, speech “The Future of the Profession of Chemistry” [Filed under LP Travel Materials: 1932-1954: Box #1.001 Folder #1.7]
• Letter from C. H. Sorum, Cooperative Committee Representative, to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Encloses two copies of the minutes of the AAAS Cooperative Committee meeting. Suggests additions to the minutes. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1949-1950: Box #14.005 Folder #5.2]
• Letter from George W. Gray, The Rockefeller Foundation, to Beatrice Wulf, Secretary, Gates and Crellin Labs, Cal Tech, RE: Asks her to thank LP for the summary of enzyme work that he prepared. [Letter from LP to Gray December 21, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.13, file:(G: Correspondence, 1949)]
• Letter from LP (signed in his absence) to Dr. B. O. Raulston RE: Encloses a draft of the letter about the Addis Memorial Committee to be sent out and asks permission to mention Raulston's name. Also mentions that his article on sickle cell anemia will appear in Science. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #2.3, file:(Thomas Addis Memorial Committee 1949-1955)]
• Letter from LP (signed in his absence) to Norman Tyre RE: Informs him that he and other friends and patients of Dr. Thomas Addis are forming a Memorial Committee and asks if Tyre would be interested in serving with them. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #2.3, file:(Thomas Addis Memorial Committee 1949-1955)]
• Letter from LP [Signed in his absence] to Dr. David Pressman, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, RE: Replies that they should not take any action concerning the Nickerson article, unless Pressman can include discussion of it in a future paper. Adds that Pressman should not let the Journal of Immunology attempt to change his modified nouns to adjectives, mentioning that he has experienced similar problems with the journal. [Letter from Pressman to LP November 11, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #309.7, file:(Pressman, David)]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to A.H. Shapley. LP writes to say that he is sorry for not replying to the letter Shapley sent, but he was on an eastern trip when the letter was sent, and the deadline had passed before he returned. LP states that he will do his best to help out in the future. [Reply to Shapley, September 17, 1949]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Dr. E.C. Kleiderer, Lilly Research Laboratories, RE: Encloses a check for vitamins prepared for LP by The Lilly Labs. Adds that he has had to postpone his trip to Indianapolis until January or February 1950. [Letter from Kleiderer to LP November 21, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #111.4, file:(Eli Lilly and Company, 1946-1951, 1953-1956, 1964-1968, 1970-1972)]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Dr. Walter A. Lawrance, Head, Department of Chemistry, Bates College, RE: Invites him to use their library and attend seminars at Cal Tech during his sabbatical. Asks Lawrance stop by and see him soon after arriving. [Letter from Lawrance to LP November 16, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #230.15, file:(L: Correspondence, 1949)]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Dr. Werner Nowacki RE: Reports that his delay in response is due to complications in the publication of the paper on DL-Threonine from which Nowacki has requested permission to use some diagrams. Adds that once the manuscript has been accepted for publication in a journal Nowacki may use the diagrams. [Letters from Nowacki to LP September 27, 1949, November 27, 1949; note from Corey to LP October 12, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #277.15, file:(Nowacki, Werner)]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Dr. William H. Eberhardt, Department of Chemistry, Georgia Tech RE: Thanks him for his manuscript, which he approves for publication. Informs Eberhardt that Dr. Davison is building an apparatus like the one detailed in his manuscript. (Note in bottom margin: “Mss. passed on to N. Davison.” [Letter from Eberhardt to LP November 14, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #106.3, file:(Eberhardt, William H., 1946, 1947, 1949-1951, 1953, 1955-1956, 1961-1963, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1991)]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Henry Allen Moe, Guggenheim Foundation. RE: Returns Keppel's report on Alien Visa Cases [Reply to Moe November 18, 1949] [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.4]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Prof. N.V. Sidgwick stating that he is pleased for his upcoming trip, but since the term will be over, they will not be able to arrange a series of lectures, but he could have him give one and uses this letter as the invitation. [Reply to Sidgwick November 20, 1949]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Robert L. Taylor, Editor, Chemical Industries, RE: Informs Taylor about the Pauling oxygen meter. Answers Taylor's earlier questions about its development. [Letter from Robert L. Taylor to LP November 14, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #410.14]
• Letter from LP [signed in his absence] to Talitha Gerlach, China Welfare Appeal, Inc. [Letters from Gerlach to LP October 22, 1949, from Fritchman to LP November 22, 1948 ] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.13, file:(G: Correspondence, 1949)]

  November 29, 1949

  Miss Talitha Gerlach

  China Welfare Appeal Inc.

  Friendship Cargo for China

  439 Fourth Avenue

  New York 16, N. Y.

  Dear Miss Gerlach:

  On the occasion of the recent visit in Pasadena of Dr. Arthur Chung, member of the Medical Committee and Board of Directors of the China Welfare Appeal, I was pleased to be able to make the effort to be of some service to him and to the China Welfare Appeal.

  My colleagues and I have in recent years developed a promising substitute for blood plasma. This material, Oxypolygelatin, can be manufactured cheaply and with use of equipment readily available. In the hope that it might be of some value in the department [?] of disease and of wounded persons in China, I was glad to be able to turn over to Dr. Chung a sample of the material, and a detailed description of its method of manufacture.

  With my best wishes to you for great success in your fine work, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Dictated by Linus Pauling

  Signed in his absence:W

  P.S. Please forgive me for having been so slow to answer your letter. L.P.

  cc: Dr. Fritchman

• Letter from LP to Dennis Flanagan, Managing Editor, Scientific American, RE: Agrees to prepare the article that he mentioned by May 1, 1950. Writes that he is honored that he asked him to do this and that he is happy to assist him in the publication of such a fine journal as the Scientific American. [Letters from Flanagan to LP, November 23, 1949 and December 5, 1949] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1950a.7]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Earl Royals, Emory University, RE: Freeman has told LP that Royals is preparing a manuscript of an advanced organic text. LP would like very much to have the opportunity of examining the manuscript, and LP is writing to find out if Royals would be interested in the possibility of publishing with Freeman and Co. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b6.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Gordon Cumming, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. RE: Informs him that the instruments are being manufactured by Dr. Beckman. Suggests he write that company. [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work - Materials re: the Pauling Oxygen Meter, 1944-1982: Box #13.003 Folder #3.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. John T. Edsall, Department of Physical Chemistry, Harvard School of Medicine, RE: Informs Edsall that he hasn't published his work yet but he does have a manuscript. Asks if he wants a copy to be made available to him. [Letters from Edsall to LP November 18, 1949, December 15, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #106.5, file:(Edsall, John T., 1938-1939, 1941, 1945-1946, 1949-1951, 1953-1958, 1965, 1967-1968, 1971-1972, 1975, 1978-1979, 1987, 1993)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Michael Somogyi, The Jewish Hospital of Saint Louis. RE: Informs him that he hasn't responded to Root yet. Asks permission to keep the copies of the Weekly Bulletin for a little longer. Thanks him for his trouble. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1949-1950: Box #14.005 Folder #5.3]
• Letter from LP to Evelyn Barrett RE: Reports on who he has contacted in relation the to Addis Memorial committee and asks for details on some committee policies. Informs her that he will not be able to write any more letters on behalf of the committee until he returns from his next trip East. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #2.3, file:(Thomas Addis Memorial Committee 1949-1955)]
• Letter from LP to Florence Chesse, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP has two small corrections to "General Chemistry." [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b4.6.]
• Letter from LP to Hans-Jürgen Booss RE: Responds that he would be happy to answer any scientific questions that he has. [Letter from Booss to LP September 5, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.16, file:(B: Correspondence 1949)]
• Letter from LP to Prof. N. V. Sidgwick, Lincoln College, Oxford University, cc: JHS, RE: Encourages Sidgwick to visit Cal Tech in June 1950, but states that their term will be over by then and so they will not hold a series of lectures. Invites Sidgwick to give one lecture. States he is unsure whether or not he will be in Philadelphia for the American Chemical Society meeting. [Filed under LP Correspondence: #364.1]
• Letter from LP to Victor Reynolds, Cornell University Press. RE: Telling Reynolds that he might not be done with the third edition of his book until mid 1951, instead of the proposed beginning of 1950. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1960b.5.2]
• Letter from LP to W. A. Noyes, Jr., University of Rochester. RE: Has no objection to his representing the ACS at the presentation of the Chemical Engineering Award on December 1st. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1949-1950: Box #14.005 Folder #5.2]
• Letter from Prof. George Glockler, Department of Chemistry, State University of Iowa, to LP RE: Thanks him for the reprints and the note concerning bond energies and special valence states. Sends some reprints and his complete list of publications. Mentions that Darrell Feay has applied to Cal Tech. Regrets that at this time they have no one to recommend for a position in organic chemistry. [Letter from Glockler to LP December 3, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #136.15, file:(Glockler, George)]
• Manuscript, Correspondence: The Future of the Profession of Chemistry, First Annual Dinner of the Chemistry Professionals, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio. [Filed under: LP Speeches, 1949s.20]
• Memo from LP to himself with notes on heteropoly acids.
• Series of four memos from LP to Dr. J.L.T. Waugh RE: Asks him to prepare various chemical compounds and to do some research on certain substances. (Memos from Waugh attached, along with Waugh's paper) [Waugh's replies November 29, 1949, January 11, 1950] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 443.17]
• Telegram from Beatrice Wulf, Executive Secretary, Gates and Crellin Lab., C. I. T. to David C. Crockett, Massachusetts General Hospital RE: LP has left for East already, but plans to stay with LP Jr. while in Boston and expects to be met by him. [Crockett's telegram November 28, 1949] [Filed under LP Science: Massachusetts General Hospital - Scientific Advisory Committee, 1949-1957: Box #15.008 Folder #8.1]