Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to Roess Market for $9.21. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
- Itinerary [handwritten]: Temple Isaiah Forum, Los Angeles [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.4]
- Letter [undated, reply below] from Dr. Ernst Leva to LP RE: Reminds LP that he gave him his time s few years ago when he needed advice on a scientific problem, believes he has succeeded in finding the true interpretations of his research, asks if LP could examine his work and the applications it may have, says he is innocent in the world of business and feels he can trust LP. [Letter from LP to Leva January 27, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1959), #231.5]
- Letter from Dean Simeon E. Leland, Northwestern University, to LP RE: Says Fred Basolo has been recommended by the Department of Chemistry for promotion from Associate Professor to Professor, says they have a committee consisting of three professors from other departments to appraise the candidate, says the committee feels that LP is familiar with his publications and perhaps professionally as well, includes a list of Basolo's publications and an outline of his professional career, hopes this request will not be an undue burden on him, and asks that the inquiry be kept confidential. [Letter from LP to Leland February 10, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1959), #39.2]
- Letter from Donald Keys to LP, RE: Keys is enclosing a survey that he thinks LP might be interested in since LP has been working on the problem of establishing a research agency for peace.
- Letter from Dr. Mosco Americo, Chemico, to LP RE: Acknowledges his letter of December 11, 1958, tells about the results from the use of aluminum ions as fungicides which is his product, says there has been no final agreement reached thus far for using his product in the United States due to wrong evaluations, talks about the standard methods for testing fungicides and how the American experts have been using the wrong concentrations, and asks him if he would give Dr. W. P. Utermohlen, Jr. his opinion that the traditional methods of evaluation of fungicidal power are inexact since there are no free aluminum ions in the cultural grounds, and asks LP to let him know if he agrees to his proposal. [Letter from LP to Americo February 10, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1959), #13.2]
- Letter from Kaoru Yasui, Director Japan Council Against A&H Bombs to LP, RE: The executive board of the Japan Council Against A&H Bombs met on January 24 and adopted a proposal for the international even of 1959 (enclosed). The Council would appreciate a reply with any amendments or additions. [Filed under LP Peace: (Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, 1957-1965, 1991), Box #4.008, Folder #8.3]
- Letter from LP to Christopher Hill, Balliol College, Oxford RE: Says they have been reading his book Puritanism and Revolution with much pleasure, and tells about the explanation he heard that hatters went insane from mercuric nitrate. [Letter from Hill to LP February 6, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hill, Christopher), #159.5]
- Letter from LP to Curtis D. Benster RE: Says he will be pleased to talk with him about the problem he described in his letter, says he is not sure he would have any worthwhile suggestions to make but he will try, suggests he look in his office sometime when he is looking in the library at Cal Tech, and says he is in his office everyday but Benster could call his secretary and make an appointment. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1959), #39.2]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Ernst Leva RE: Says he looked over his manuscript, says he has decided that he is so out of date in the field of immunological reaction and busy with other activities that he does not have enough time to go through it with the proper care, returns it to him, and says he is sorry that this is his present situation. [Letter from Leva to LP (undated, above)] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1959), #231.5]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Homer Wellman RE: LP says that as a chemist he finds medical problems difficult and confusing so he is not sure how great the value of vitamin C is although her is sure that is has much value. LP will continue to discuss the matter with his friends. [Note from Wellman to LP January 25, 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. M. Denbrow, Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Chealsea College of Science and Technology RE: Says he doesn't know of any source for peptides of the sort that he described in his letter, says he also asked Professor Robert B. Corey, and says he didn't have any suggestions either. [Letter from Denbrow to LP January 9, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1959), #98.24]
- Letter from LP to Frederick K. Trask, Jr., The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation RE: LP is pleased to accept reappointment as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Foundation for the next year. [Letter from Trask to LP January 22, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation—Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence 1954-1959: Box #15.002, Folder #2.5]
- Letter from LP to G.E.W. Wolstenholme, Ciba Foundation, RE: Discusses arrangements for the upcoming 10th Anniversary Symposium. [Letter from Wolstenholme to LP January 13, 1959, Letter from Wolstenholme to LP April 21, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s2.2]
- Letter from LP to K. G. Stone, Michigan State University, RE: Declines the invitation to address the Mens Faculty Club luncheon in April. [Letter from Stone to LP January 23, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
- Letter from LP to K. Swaminathan, Indian Institute of Technology, RE: Explains that he is no longer directing research in the field of inorganic chemistry. Suggests that Swaminathan consult American scientific journals to find professors carrying on work in his field of interest. [Note from Swaminathan to LP January 16, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
- Letter from LP to Marii Hasegawa, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, RE: Declines the invitation to speak at the annual meeting of WILPF in Trenton because of his scheduled appearance on the Greater Trenton Science Forum. [Letter from Hasegawa to LP January 24, 1959, Letter from Hasegawa to LP February 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.18]
- Letter from LP to Mary Lou Flynn RE: Says he is interested to learn about her work on the color of inorganic substances, gives her a reference to a paper on the relation between the color of compounds and the partial covalent character of the bonds by Professor Pitzer at the University of California. [Note from Flynn to LP January 13, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1959), #129.3]
- Letter from LP to Professor Erdelyi, RE: Erdelyi thanks LP for his comments on the Proposal to the Carnegie Corporation. [Erdelyi's reply January 30, 1959] [Filed under LP Peace: (Carnegie Seminars for International Peace), Box #2.007, Folder #7.1]
- Letter from LP to Robert E. Decker RE: LP apologizes but he does not know of any medical man who is using the physical chemical approach to mental disease. [Letter from Decker to LP February 17, 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 T. L. Hodgkin, Balliol College, Oxford RE: Thanks him for sending them Christopher Hill's book Puritanism and Revolution, and says he has written to Hill that he has heard that mad hatters were mad because of mercury poison. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hodgkin, Dorothy Crawford), #159.12]
- Letter from LP to William Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Co., RE: Says he does not know Kosower and cannot make a recommendation about the publication of his notes. Mentions that he has written again to Kasha. [Letter from Freeman to LP January 20, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1959), #439.17]
- Letter from Norman J. Fernandes to LP RE: Says he is making another try to give his lady another chance, hopes LP will give his lady his letter, says he is dedicating his first volume of work to LP, and says there is sincerity in purpose in his actions. [Attached: Letter from Fernandes to "Mona" January 31, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Fernandes, Norman J., 1958-1959), #119.5]
- Letter from Richard C. La Force, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, to LP RE: Says he will be finishing his thesis in the next month and so is looking for a research/teaching position, asks LP's advice about what positions he should apply for, tells about his thesis as well as his research experience and interests, tells about his interview with Bell Laboratories to illustrate the difficulties in getting a position since he has been in jail, and hopes for advice from LP. [Letter from LP to La Force February 10, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (La Force, Richard C.), #212.2]
- Letter from Richard H. Sullivan, Reed College, to LP RE: Says the students and staff are pleased that LP will give the 1959 Commencement address at Reed. Regrets that LP was unable to visit the college last week. [Letter from LP to Sullivan January 26, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s2.1]
- Note from George Rieveschl, Jr., Parke, Davis and Company, to LP RE: Thanks LP for sending a copy of his book, No More War! Hopes to see LP and AHP during their visit to Detroit. [Letter from LP to Rieveschl January 9, 1959, Letter from LP to Rieveschl January 29, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1959), #341.5]
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