Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to Minnie Verdugo for $44.55. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
- Letter from Carl Fenichel, Director, League School for Seriously Disturbed Children, to LP RE: Expresses honor if he would accept their invitation ot be the Guest Speaker and recipient of our Citation Award at the luncheon on May 2nd. Discusses the event. Note on top: "Mr. Fenichel called Tues. 10 mar and I promised we would send him a telegram on Thurs. 12 Mar". Note on bottom: "Greatly regret that speaking engagement in Los Angeles prevents my accepting invitation 2 May. LP" [Telegram from LP to Carl Fenichel March 13, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.14]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Joan Harris] to Earl Sherry, Little Wheel Farm, RE: Returns Sherry's manuscript saying he cannot comment on its usefulness because he does not understand it. [Letter from Sherry to LP January 17, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Joan Harris] to Frank L. Lambert, Occidental College, RE: Declines the invitation to come to Occidental College in August. Explains that he is unaware of the progress of the film on molecular vibrations. [Letter from Lambert to LP February 24, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence) #313.7]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Joan Harris] to Harold C. Urey, University of California, RE: Tells Urey about his plan to set up a World Academy of Sciences, and asks Urey if he is interested in this proposal. If yes, then could Urey please name the leading scientists of the world whom he considers worthy of inclusion. LP is especially interested in having suggestions about outstanding scientists in the smaller and more distant countries. [Filed under LP Science: (Wold Academy of Sciences, 1958-1963), Box #14.043, Folder #43.1]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Joan Harris] to J. H. Means RE: Informs that he has read Victor C. Vaughan's paper. Informs that he will discuss the problem of the nature of life in his Messenger Lectures at Cornell. [Letter from Means to LP November 19, 1958] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1959), #258.1]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Joan Harris] to Leon J. Ricks RE: Explains that he finds William V. King's statements in his Trance Session I account to be vague and meaningless. [Letter from Ricks to LP January 18, 1959, Letter from Ricks to LP March 3, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1959), #341.5]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Joan Harris] to T. A. Stephenson, University College of Wales, RE: Says he thinks Stephenson's letter to the editor of the Times was of great value. [Note from Stephenson to LP September 10, 1958] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
- Letter from LP [Signed by Joan Harris] to Victor Reynolds, Cornell University Press, RE: Says he is making good progress on the manuscript of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Says he thinks he will have the manuscript ready by April. [Letter from Reynolds to LP February 24, 1959, Letter from LP to Reynolds April 6, 1959] [Filed under LP Books: 1960b5.3]
- Letter from LP [dictated by LP and signed by Joan Harris] to Dr. Phillip Zeidenberg RE: Thanks Zeidenberg for his letter and says that he regrets the choice of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. [Letter from Zeidenberg to LP February 15, 1959] [Filed under LP Science: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation- Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1958: Box #15.007, Folder #7.12]
- Letter from LP [signed by Joan Harris] to G. Sutherland, National Physical Laboratory, RE: Accepts the invitation to present the opening talk at the International Conference on Biophysics in July 1959. Says he is sure to have no trouble with British immigration authorities. [Letter from Sutherland to LP February 20, 1959, Letter from Sutherland to LP March 25, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s2.4]
- Letter from LP to Alfred Y. K. Au RE: Says he has read his book "Myth of Mankind," says his thesis seems to be so far removed from the work he is doing that it is not possible for him to take an interest in it, and says to let him know if he should return the copy of his book. [Letter from Au to LP January 15, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1959), #13.2]
- Letter from LP to Clara Zempel, Program Coordinator, American Dietetic Association RE: Appreciates the invitation to take part in the program of the meeting of the American Dietetic Association in August, regrets that he is goign to be away from Pasadena at that time and so declines the invitation. [Letter from Zempel to LP February 25, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1959), #13.2]
- Letter from LP to Ernest Weill, RE: LP thinks that Weill's idea that research on peace should be carried out in universities is an excellent one. The is a successfully functioning peace research program at Columbia University, though it is on a very small scale. LP thinks also that Dr. Killian's group in the President's office can be considered a peace research group as well. LP thinks that in addition to the small peace research groups that are going on already there needs to be an international World Peace Research Organization. [Weill's letter January 26, 1959] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: World Peace Research Organization, 1958-1960), Box #6.003, Folder #3.1]
- Letter from LP to Everett S. Allen, The Standard Times, RE: Says his article is being sent via airmail special delivery. [Letter from LP to Lewin February 25, 1959, Letter from Lewin to LP March 4, 1959] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a.2]
- Letter from LP to Helmut de Terra, RE: LP is pleased with de Terra's suggestion for donations for the World Peace Research Organization. However, the administration of Cal Tech is not sympathetic to LP's activities and so LP does not think that de Terra's suggested plan will work. [De Terra's letter January 16, 1959] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: World Peace Research Organization, 1958-1960), Box #6.003, Folder #3.1]
- Letter from LP to J.J. Wadsworth, RE: LP thinks that the peace talks in Geneva should not end before an agreement has been made. LP is not discouraged that it has been four months and there has yet to be a final agreement. LP is enclosing reprints of his paper on Carbon-14 that he wrote with Professor Kamb about the effects of Strontium-90 on mice. [Wadsworth's reply March 3, 1959] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: World Peace Research Organization, 1958-1960), Box #6.003, Folder #3.1]
- Letter from LP to M. J. Buerger RE: Accepts the invitation to prepare a paper for the Festschrift for Professor Laue. Says he will send the manuscript in June. [Letters from Buerger to LP February 25, 1959, March 16, 1959] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a.9]
- Letter from LP to Peter Charlton RE: Sends him under separate cover the book The Arms Race, says Philip John Noel-Baker will be in the U.S. for a month in April to attend the Washington seminar on international affairs, gives the dates he will be in Pasadena, says Noel-Baker is an excellent speaker whose stand is exactly what the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy supports, and recommends that SANE collaborates with AFSC in sponsoring a talk as well as giving him an honorarium. [Letter from Charlton to LP February 21, 1959, letter from Charlton to Raitt February 28, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Charlton, Peter, 1959), #64.5]
- Letter from LP to Professor Herbert Jehle, Physics Department, George Washington University RE: Thanks him for his letter about Noel-Baker, says they are trying to arrange a sponsor for a talk by him, and says he will be out of town. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Jehle, Herbert), #189.3]
- Letter from LP to Professor Herman Mark, Director, Polymer Research Institute, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn RE: Says he is not sure if he answered their letter about Dr. L. Pokras, says he has looked over the manuscript, thinks it would serve well as a text for an introductory course, says he didn't find anything he considered to be seriously in error, and was pleased with the presentation in general. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Mark, Herman), #244.1]
- Letter from LP to William Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Co., RE: Says he was pleasantly surprised with the manuscript on general chemistry by Andrews and Kokes. Explains his thoughts on the book and suggests that Freeman's company not publish it. [Letter from Freeman to LP February 24, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1959), #439.17]
- Letter from Norman J. Fernandes to LP RE: Says he has had no word from his Lady, suggests that maybe LP can help him find another woman, and says he hasn't had any word from LP for quite a while. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Fernandes, Norman, 1958-1959), #119.5]
- Memo from LP to Barclay Kamb RE: Informs that he has been invited to prepare a paper for a special issue of the Zeitschrift für Kristallographie in honor of Professor von Laue's 80th birthday. Requests Kamb's assistance in developing a topic for his paper. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a.9]
- Publication: "The American Naturalist" published for the American Society of Naturalists at Arizona State University. [Filed under LP Science: Box #6.009, Folder #9.2]
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