March 17, 1954 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Letter from Alexander R. Todd to LP RE: Questioning LP about what type of presentation he should prepare for the symposium on nucleic acids at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]

Letter from Alexander R. Todd to the D. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences RE: Todd would like to accept the offer to take part in the session on nucleic acids at the National Academy of Sciences meeting. [Letter from Bronk March 9, 1954; Reply March 29, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]

Letter from LP to Cornell University Press: LP requests that one copy of his book, "The Nature of the Chemical Bond," be sent to Mr. K Oteni, and that his royalty account be charged. [Filed under: LP Manuscripts of Books, 1960b.5.2]

Letter from LP to K. Otani RE: LP is sending Otani a copy of The Nature of the Chemical Bond and is interested to learn more about Otani's study and research at his university. [Otani's letter January 15, 1954; Otani's reply May 3, 1954] [Filed under O: Correspondence 1954, Box #300.16]

Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1].

17 March 1954

(Dictated 14 March)

Dear Peter:

Mama and I are taking off tomorrow for Antioch College, which is in Yellow Springs, Ohio. We are to be there one week. On Tuesday I shall give an assembly talk, on "Science as a Cultural Subject." Then later in the week I am to give a public address, on molecular medicine -- mainly about hemoglobin. Then on Wednesday 24 March we shall leave Yellow Springs, flying to Chicago, and Mama will continue on to Spokane, where she will stay one day with Aunt Elizabeth, and then fly to Portland, on Thursday. On Wednesday I shall continue from Chicago to Kansas City, staying there two nights. I am to preside at a symposium on sickle cell anemia on Thursday afternoon. At this time Harvey Itano is to give the address in connection with his receipt of the Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry ($1000). About five other talks on sickle cell anemia and other abnormal hemoglobins will also be presented. Dr. Itano and two collaborators in Children's Hospital in Los Angeles will announce the discovery of a fourth abnormal hemoglobin -- it is named hemoglobin E, the others being sickle cell anemia hemoglobin (S), and hemoglobins C and D -- all of them discovered here.

Then on Friday I shall fly from Kansas City to Portland. Mama and I shall stay with Linda until Monday morning and then fly home. Monday is registration day. Our classes begin on Tuesday.

Would you ask the book dealer to get a copy of the book "The Restless Voyage" by S.D. Porteus, 10s 6d, published by George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., London, and send it to me?

I am looking forward to receiving some more Penguin books.

I have continued to work on the collagen structure. I think there is little doubt about its correctness, although we do not as yet have the radial distribution curve calculated. The calculation is a big one, and we shall probably do it on the punched card machines, although there is a bare possibility that it will be programmed for the consolidated electronic calculator, which has been made available to us for a short while. I don't know whether the Institute will buy one of these calculators, or whether in the future we shall have to rent it.

Mama and I shall talk with Linda about plans for the summer. I wish that you would write immediately about your plans, to the extent that they affect Linda or might affect her. I judge that you are going to work in Naples. Is this definite? If Linda were to stay in Europe for a year, what would you advise? There is the possibility of her studying, in Tubingen, say -- I think that Tubingen would be better than a big city, and also better than Paris. Of course, she might go to Sweden, but German and French are better languages to learn than Swedish. Would you think that there would be a possibility for her to study in England, and if so, what? If there were something worthwhile that she could do in Cambridge, it might be nice for her to be with you.

Love from

[Linus Pauling]

Dictated by Linus Pauling

Signed in his absence:W

Letter from LP to Prof. K. S. Pitzer, UC Berkeley RE: Caltech will be glad to have Dr. Bell speak and will give him an honorarium as well lodging at the Athenaeum. LP may be able to give a seminar talk at Berkeley in May. [Pitzer's letter March 11, 1954] [Filed under P: Individual Correspondence, Box #308.7]

Letter from Manuel Morales, Naval Medical Research Institute RE: Inviting LP to lecture at the National Naval Medical Center in April "as discussed in prior correspondence" [LP's reply April 5, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]

Letter from W. M. Stanley to A. Wetmore, Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences, cc. to LP RE: Suggesting that a paper from the Biochemistry and Virus Laboratory, "Considerations on the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Evidence for a Watson-Crick Model with Interrupted Chains" be included in the program for the session on nucleic acids at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. [LP's reply April 1, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]

Newspaper Clipping: "Science Test of Imagination, Speaker Tells Antioch Group", Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, March 17, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.47]

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