Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to Pasadena Red Cross for $15.00. [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, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, folder #74.6]
- Commercial Account Counter Check from First Western Bank and Trust Company to LP for $200.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
- Letter (attached to card) from Phyllis Armstrong to LP RE: Wishes to express her appreciation to him for an inspiring speech, says AHP impressed upon her just by her presence and expression the great role a woman plays in the life of a successful man, and thanks him for making the evening of their Scholarship Banquet both enjoyable and profitable for them and their parents. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1959), #13.2]
- Letter form Barbara Kamb, Dodd, Mead & Co., to LP RE: Inquires about the proper division of royalties between LP and Roger Hayward on the sale of No More War! to the Liberty Book Club. [Letter from LP to Kamb May 22, 1959] [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
- Letter from Emily Parker Simon, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, to LP RE: Says she cannot answer LP's inquiry about the program for the WILPF's upcoming International Congress. Informs that Sign Höjer will attend to the inquiry. [Letter from LP to Simon May 14, 1959] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s2.4]
- Letter from John Kelly to LP, RE: At the suggestion of LP's son, Kelly is writing to ask if LP will be available any time between June 27 and July 28 to address a large public meeting in Honolulu on the subject of fallout hazards and the dangers of continued bomb testing. Kelly notes that LP's transportation and living expenses would be provided for the time that LP would be in Honolulu. [LP's response June 1, 1959] [Filed under LP Peace: (SANE, 1958-1966, 1982), Box #4.003, Folder #3.2]
- Letter from LP to Charles Schwieso RE: Thanks Schwieso for a reprint he sent. Says he agrees that Joseph Botter made a good statement. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S:Correspondence, 1959), #380.3]
- Letter from LP to David Dietz, Science Editor, The Cleveland Press Building RE: Says he was pleased to see the clipping of his column from The Cleveland Press, says he is doing a fine job and that he almost always enjoys reading his column. [Letter from Dietz to LP May 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1959), #98.24]
- Letter from LP to David R. Brower, Executive Director, Sierra Club RE: Says their article "How Dense Should People Be?" seems to present an excellent discussion of the problem of growing overpopulation, says that he believes this problem will be solved as the problem of world destruction through war will be solved, and says the solution to the population problem is control of conception. [Letter from Brower to LP May 14, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1959), #39.2]
- Letter from LP to John Davenport, RE: LP has decided not to sign the call to convene a world constitutional convention because he does not think that it is the best thing to do at this time. [Davenport's letter May 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Conferences, 1962-1994), Box #2.011, Folder #11.1]
- Letter from LP to Martin Karplus, University of Illinois, RE: Thanks Karplus for his paper on methylene angular-dependence. Says he is glad to learn of the Students for World Peace group at the University of Illinois's campus but thinks he may be unable to speak before them in the fall. [Letter from Karplus to LP May 11, 1959] [Filed under LP Books: Unpb.8]
- Letter from LP to Mr. and Mrs. Otho A. Pettyjohn, Jr. RE: Regrets that he and AHP will be unable to visit the Pettyjohns in the near future. Expresses hope that they might visit after their upcoming travels. [Notes from the Pettyjohns to LP April 16, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Pettyjohn, Otho) #308.1]
- Letter from LP to Mrs. Idyle Wilde Godard, Coos County School Superintendent's Office RE: Says he was pleased to receive her letter, says it seems unlikely that he can accept the invitation to speak at the workshop in September, says he is coming to Oregon for a few days at the end of August to give lectures as part of the Centennial program, says he cannot come to Coos County unless he was scheduled there as he has to leave for Canada the next day, and thanks her for the clipping from the Coos Bay paper. [Letter from Godard to LP May 13, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.2]
- Letter from Norman K. Allen, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, to LP RE: Writes to proffer a plan that is possibly useful to help cause nuclear test cessation, says that it consists of getting one pharmaceutical company to produce and sell a great amount of calcium lactate pills which pul from underground limestone and so are uncontaminated by Sr89-90, gives the probable effects of this move and the reasons for them, and thanks LP for his consideration. [Letter from LP to Allen May 22, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1959), #13.2]
- Letter from Professor Michael Heidelberger, Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, to LP RE: Says the executive board for the Middlesex County Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action voted LP as their preferred dinner guest at the next Roosevelt Day Dinner, wonders if he would consider a speaking engagement before the local group, tells when the annual banquet generally is, and asks if there is a time when he is making a trip out East in the next winter or spring. [Letter from LP to Heidelberger May 25, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Heidelberger, Michael), #153.3]
- Memo from Sten Samson to LP, RE: Describes research plans for the near future and gives an estimate of expenditures for the proposed investigations. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Memoranda, Notes and Assorted Materials re: "The Structure of Metals and Intermetallic Compounds," Contract Nonr 220(33) (Chemistry 43), 1958-1963), Box #14.035, Folder #35.1]
- Memorandum from Delegation of Scientists organized by the World Federation of Scientific Workers to Mr. Khrushchev [copy sent to LP]. [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo-Yo), Box #4.017, Folder #17.3]
- Note from Grace E. B. Murphy, Conservationists United for Long Island, to LP RE: Thanks LP for his comments on issues of deforestation and pollution. Mentions Dr. Chauncey D. Leake of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and his statements on the issue. [Letter from LP to Murphy May 5, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1959), #258.1]
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