Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to J.W. Robinson for $19.71. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
- Check from AHP to National Parks Association for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
- Letter from Dr. George S. Handler to LP RE: Asks for his advice and suggestions for his present circumstances, says the company he is in is losing interest in science, says he wants to return to teaching and research, says he is mainly a quantum mechanics scientist, encloses a vitae and reprints, and asks if LP would let him know if he hears of any positions. (Attached: "Personal and Professional Data on G. Handler") [Letter from LP to Handler February 23, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1959), #167.4]
- Letter from LP to B. Svec, Radio Prague, RE: Recommends complete demilitarization of East and West Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary and any other willing countries as a solution to the German problem of finding peace. [Letter from B. Svec to LP February 6, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
- Letter from LP to Dr. R. H. Kent RE: Says he was glad to read how he wrote to the Editor of Scientific American to suggest that he get a competent geneticist to write an article on the role of mutations in evolution, says he is not considered a competent geneticist, and suggests Dobzhansky and L.C. Dunn or J. B. S. Haldane to write the article instead. [Card from Kent to LP February 7, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1959), #201.3]
- Letter from LP to Giles F. Filley, University of Colorado Medical Center, RE: Declines the invitation to attend a meeting on the Morphological Basis of Pulmonary Mechanics in June. [Letter from Filley to LP February 2, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (U: Correspondence, 1959), #421.17]
- Letter from LP to Hugh H. Anderson RE: Says he received a letter from Academician A. Topchiev, says he reports that there is no work under way about guayule rubber in the U.S.S.R., says there used to be during the 30's, but the work was stopped in 1952, and says he mentioned nothing about the possibility of Anderson coming to Russia. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., 1955-1967, 1970, 1977-1979, 1984, 1986-1988), #7.5]
- Letter from LP to Julian Gordon RE: Returns his manuscript Man in Relation to Woman, says he has some difficulty following his argument, and says he couldn't find a thesis that unifies the book. [Letter from Gordon to LP February 10, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1959), #141.3]
- Letter from LP to Professor Isaac Asimov RE: Says he is pleased that William Kaufman sent on the copy of his carbon-14 paper that appeared in the Journal of Chemical Education four years ago, remembers reading it when it first appeared, regrets that he did not mention it in the new carbon-14 paper he published recently, and encloses a copy. (Copy of the letter is attached the to letter from Asimov to Kaufman, the first half of which the ink has come off, the second half talking about his admiration of LP) [Letter from Freeman to LP February 3, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Asimov, Isaac, 1959-1994), #6.17]
- Letter from LP to William C. Carr RE: Thanks him for his letter, says he also wishes that his book would come out in paperback, says his publishers say that no paperback publisher is interested in it, and hopes this situation can be changed before long. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.2]
- Letter from LP to William Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Co., RE: Says he looks forward to visiting Freeman on the 20th. Discusses travel plans for his upcoming visit to San Francisco. [Letter from Freeman to LP February 3, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1959), #439.17]
- Letter from William Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Co., to LP RE: Requests LP's recommendation in regard to the publication of a manuscript on statistical mechanics by Oscar Rice. Encloses a set of correspondence between Rice and Freeman about Rice's manuscript. [Letter from LP to Freeman February 18, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1959), #439.17]
- Non-Pauling Reprint: "Microwave Spectrum and Structure of Propynal," C.C.Costain and J. R. Morton, Journal of Chemistry Physics, Vol. 31, No. 2 389-393. [Filed under LP Books: Unpb7.2]
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February
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