Letter from Linus Pauling to Albert Einstein. June 1, 1954. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• AHP writes cheque to: Pierre Dalinet Coiffures amount $8.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Dr. W. G. Palmer to LP RE: Response to LP's complaints against his review of General Chemistry stating he cannot enter a "direct and private correspondence with LP until he receives word from Editor Ewald on the matter. [LP's letter May 18, 1954] [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box # 7] [Ewald's letter June 11, 1954]
• Letter from Fritz Lipmann to LP RE: Thanking him for note of congratulations on Nobel Prize. [LP's letter January 18, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Abe Fadem RE: Reply to Fadem's letter and request that LP help him get his short story, "Martian Moxie," published. LP does not feel he can get the story published for numerous reasons. [Letter from Fadem May 4, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
• Letter from LP to Albert Einstein. [Filed under E: Individual Correspondence, Box #107.1]

  1 June 1954

  Prof. Albert Einstein

  Institute for Advanced Study

  Princeton, New Jersey

  Dear Professor Einstein:

  I have been talking with the members of a new organization, Everybody’s Committee to Outlaw War, and am writing to you now to ask if you could make a brief statement to be used in the publications of this Committee.

  I enclose the first pamphlet that the Committee has prepared. You will see that there is a brief quotation from you on the bottom of the first page.

  It seems to me that the pamphlet may well have a significant effect. I have found that the problem of working for peace in the world in an effective way is a difficult one. We have, however, to continue to work toward this end.

  I am sorry that I have not been able to come to Princeton during the last two years. I am hoping, however, to be able to visit you again sometime during the coming year.

  My work has gone along well in general. My wife and I suffered a serious disappointment in December. I had been invited by the Government of India and the Indian Science Congress Association to come to India for six weeks. My wife and I started on the trip, but did not get farther than New York, because the Department of State failed to take action on my request for validation of my passport for this trip. After two weeks of last-minute effort, and after the time when it would have been necessary to leave in order to attend the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad, we gave up, and came home.

  Night before last we had a sort of reunion. Harold Urey was visiting Pasadena, and he, his daughter and son-in-law, and

  Prof. Einstein -2- 1/6/54.

  Harrison Brown and Mrs. Brown cane to our house for dinner. We wish that you had been with us too.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Dr. I. Moyer Hunsberger RE: Thanks for manuscript. [Hunsberger's letter May 20, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. S. S. Penner RE: Accepting invitation to prepare a paper (with Corey) on the structure of large molecules (esp. protein) for the Second Conference of West Coast Spectroscopists [Penner's letter of April 27, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to Francis Blancet RE: Acceptance of invitation to speak at UCLA and UC Berkeley. States available dates to speak are March 28, 1955 and April 2, 1955. There is an attached summary of the lecture topic(s). [Letter from Francis E. Blancet to LP April 27, 1954 reply from LP to Blancet June 1, 1954] [Filed B correspondence 1954, Box #37.21].
• Letter from LP to Gilda Vasconcelos RE: Reply to Vasconselos' letter or January 11, 1954; apologizes for delay in response and thanks her for article from Paul Schatz and invites her to visit when LP returns home in July. [Vasconcelos' letterJanuary 11, 1954] [Filed under V: Correspondence 1954, Box #427.14]
• Letter from LP to Malcolm Wright RE: Reply to Wright's letter of January 12, 1954, thanking him for clipping and letter and wishing him well. [Wright's letter January 12, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from LP to P. P. Ewald RE: Acknowledgment of Ewald's letter of June 1, 1954. LP anticipates Palmer's reply to his letter and defense of his criticism of LP's book. He does not plan to attend Assembly of the Union of Crystallography over the summer. [Ewald's letter of June 1, 1954] [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box # 7]
• Letter from LP to W. H. Freeman RE: Stating LP will be able to see Wall while in the East. [Freeman's letter May 11, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP would like Freeman to send him four copies of College Chemistry, which he intends to cut up and paste into the preparation of the second edition. They need not be bound. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from LP to the Braun Corporation RE: Request for refund check for $31.52. [Filed B correspondence 1954, Box #37.21].
• Letter from The Svedberg to LP RE: Requesting that LP allow Sven Malmstrom visit Caltech laboratories while in the U. S. [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #370.11]
• Letter from W. H. Freeman to LP RE: Freeman hopes LP will be able to meet Ralph Emerson, the Botany Editor while at the symposium in Dartmouth, where he is also giving a paper [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Manuscript Notes, Diagrams: "CeMg₁₂" and TiBe₁₂", June 1, 1954. [Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: Electron Theory and the Structure of Metals and Intermetallic Compounds, 1950-1955), Box #5.003, Folder #3.20]
• Memorandum from A.H. Walter to R.B. Gilmore, cc: LP RE: Final Notification of Amendment No. 8 to Contract N6onr-24432. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.17]
• Memorandum from LP to A.H. Walter RE: LP informs Walter that the application to the PHS for a grant supporting the research on the chemistry of blood must be in by July 1, 1954 to be considered at the November meeting. LP will be away in late June and asks that Walter send the application. [Filed under LP Science: (United States Public Health Service: Assorted Grants, 1954-1964), Box #14.042, Folder 42.1]