Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to Lake Florist for $12.48. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.2]
- Letter (copy) from Edward Hughes to Dr. Roland Kiessling, Aktiebolaget Atomenergi RE: Invites him to give seminar as he outlined in his letter to LP, hopes he can change the week he wants to give it, tells their normal meeting time for seminars, offers other days, tells him their honorarium, and hopes he can accept soon and send a title and date for his lecture. [Memo from LP to Hughes January 6, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1959), #201.3]
- Letter from Clifford E. Nelson, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to LP RE: Requests five copies of his article entitled, (Genetic and Somatic Effects of Carbon-14" as published in Science for their training activities of the Division of Radiological Health. Handwritten note indicates they were sent January 20, 1959. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles:1958a2.7]
- Letter from J. E. Barrett to LP, RE: Encloses his 1958-59 tax receipts and a county warrant for $11.21 for overpayment. [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer 2 Folder 2.035]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Ferreira RE: Sends him back the copy of his manuscript, and says he will include reference to it in his new edition of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Ferreira, Ricardo), #119.7]
- Letter from LP to Dr. G. E. W. Wolstenholme, The Ciba Foundation RE: Says news has reached him that the Ciba Foundation is sponsoring a conference on biochemical genetics in Naples next May, tells about the work his group has done in the field of biogenetics, believes that they should send one of their men, discusses Dr. Stanley Wright and Dr. Richard Lippman who collaborated with him on the hemoglobinemias. [Letter from Wolstenholme January 29, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. George Ehrmann RE: Says he has read the manuscript he left with him yesterday, says it contains very many untrue and seriously misleading statements, says there are few statements he can agree with, and says as he feels the publication of this manuscript would do harm to the world, he urges him not to publish it. [Letters from Ehrmann to LP January 13, 1959, January 19, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1959), #112.25]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Homer B. Wellman RE: Briefly discusses the oxidation-reduction state of the body in relation to schizophrenia and the tests accompanying this, LP concludes that the vitamin C concentration in the body may be a significant factor with respect to mental behavior. Will send Wellman information he can find about the work on vitamin C. [Notes from Wellman to LP January 9, 1959, January 21, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1966: Box #11.089, Folder #89.9]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Irving Michelson, Assistant Technical Director, Consumers Union RE: Says he was pleased to have a copy of the draft of his report on strontium-90 in milk, says it seems to be very good in general, tells about the changes he should make, and congratulates Consumers Union on doing this fine job. [Letters from Michelson to LP January 9, 1959, January 13, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Consumer Reports [Consumers Union]), #72.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. William A. Nierenberg, The American Physical Society, University of California RE: Says he is pleased to be invited to give a paper at their symposium at the University of Hawaii, explains that he is going to Europe this summer and might not be back in time, asks how soon they must know, and says he should be able to make a decision after making his plans later in the spring. [Letters from Nierenberg to LP January 12, 1959, January 16, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (American Physical Society), #11.10]
- Letter from LP to Drs. Kulp, Boecker, and Schulert, Department of Geology, Columbia University, Lamont Geological Observatory RE: Acknowledges receipt of their letter and thanks them for their measurements and manuscript, asks for Tables 3 and 4 of the manuscript, says they may want to change the wording of their reference to the work of Dr. Finkel after they have read LP's paper with Dr. Kamb about the statistical analysis of her reported results, tells where to find it, asks for a reference to Kulp's published work on cesium-137, and points out that their criticism of his carbon-14 values is unjustified if they based it off of their unpublished measurements. [Letter from Kulp to LP December 29, 1958] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1959), #201.3]
- Letter from LP to Edwin B. Wilson RE: Thanks Wilson for his comments on his book, The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Explains that his biochemical work is financially well supported. Discusses the progress of his work on mental deficiency. [Letter from LP to Wilson February 10, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Williams, Roger J., 1959), #436.11]
- Letter from LP to G. P. Speeckaert, Union of International Associations, RE: Asks about the possibilities of obtaining an international charter or international sponsorship for a new organization called the World Academy of Sciences. Also asks if he has any advice on steps to be taken to permit funds, grants and subsidies to be made available to the World Academy of Sciences on a tax-exempt basis. [Letter from Speeckaert to LP February 2, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: (Wold Academy of Sciences, 1958-1963), Box #14.043, Folder #43.1]
- Letter from LP to Mrs. Hugh Henshaw, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, RE: Tentatively suggests that he could speak in Ann Arbor on April 17. Discusses possible conflicts in his travel plans. Proposes a satisfactory payment for his speech. [Note from Henshaw to LP January 6, 1959, Note from Henshaw to LP January 20, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.18]
- Letter from LP to Mrs. Ichiro Hasegawa, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, RE: Informs that Dr. Libby will not appear with him at the Greater Trenton Science Forum. Says he is available to speak at the WILPF New Jersey Branch's annual meeting on April 25. Inquires about a possible conflict with his April 26 lecture. [Letter from Hasegawa to LP January 3, 1959, Letter from Hasegawa to LP January 24, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.18]
- Letter from LP to P.P. Ewald, RE: LP is pleased that Ewald has been so interested in his book. LP is working on the problem of setting up an institution for peace. At this point LP does not think that the United Nations would accept it as a branch organization. Rather LP thinks that he will try to set up the institute on a private basis as a non-governmental agency. [Ewald's letter September 15, 1958] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: World Peace Research Organization, 1958-1960), Box #6.003, Folder #3.1]
- Letter from LP to Phyllis N. Smith, Jefferson Medical College, RE: Says he would expect the molecular rearrangement presented by Smith to occur. Explains that he knows little about sugars and suggests that she consult someone with a better background in the field. [Letter from Smith to LP January 9, 1959, Letter from Smith to LP February 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
- Letter from LP to Professor Edward H. Cox, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University RE: Says he was pleased to learn he was in Bangkok from his letter, asks to give his regards to Dr. Thongsook, says he was also pleased to learn he will be Science Attache in Paris, hopes to see him when they come to Europe that summer, tells about what he is working on now including trying to set up a World Peace Organization, and sends a copy of No More War to him under separate cover. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.2]
- Letter from LP to Salvador Armas Pérez RE: Thanks Pérez for his letter. Sends reprints of his recent work under separate cover. [Letter from Salvador Pérez to LP January 1, 1959, Letter from Pérez to LP May 27, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence) #313.7]
- Letters from LP to William L. Laurence, New York Times; Editor, Associated Press; Editor, United Press; Gentlemen, Science Service, RE: Sends proof sheets of his joint paper with Kamb on the effects of strontium-90 on mice. Explains how their research disproves conclusions made by Miriam Finkel. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a2.2]
- Note from Lloyd Chandler to LP RE: Says he will be in LA sometime in the next few weeks, hopes they can have a few minutes to talk together, says he is also disappointed regarding the small sale of LP's book, says people probably don't want to hear the truth, and says they discussed his plan to send copies to the House of Representatives but believes they wouldn't read it unless it was within one page. [Letters from LP to Chandler October 28, 1959, January 26, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.2]
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