Letter from Linus Pauling to Kenneth Shaw. October 27, 1959. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Better Chesley for $1.00. [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 #75.6]
• Check from AHP to COPE for $5.00. [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 #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Friends of the Huntington Library 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] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Standard Oil of California for $40.31. [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 #75.6]
• Check from AHP to The Cambrian for $3.00. [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 #75.6]
• Check from AHP to Women's Club of California Institute of Technology for $2.50. [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 #75.6]
• Check from LP to American Airlines for $127.05. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Journal Article: No Title, [advertisement] Chemical & Engineering News, (October 26, 1959). [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: 1959n.48]
• Letter from AHP to Dr. James Dombrowski, RE: Apologizes for her delay in response due to being away from Pasadena. Tells him that she is sending her pledge to the project with the letter. She also informs him that she will unfortunately be out of town in November when there will a luncheon in his honor. She also says she is sorry to hear the Aubrey Williams is ill and that she will write him a letter. [Filed under AHP: Individual Correspondence (Personal) Box #1.003 Folder 3.2]
• Letter from AHP to Miss Claire Walsh RE: Tells Miss Walsh that she would be very happy to speak to small groups of WILPF members and suggests possible things that she could talk about. [Filed under AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political, Box #1.004 Folder #4.5]
• Letter from AHP to Mr. Aubrey Williams RE: Tells him about the experience she and LP had visiting Dr. Schweitzer in Africa over the summer. Expresses hope that he will come to visit them sometime in California and tells him about their plans to go to Australia to give several talks. [Filed under AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political, Box #1.004 Folder #4.5]
• Letter from AHP to Mrs. Else Zeuthen RE: Tells Mrs. Zeuthen that the local president of the WILPF asked her to write and see if it would be too difficult for the members from Western Europe to have the next international congress of the WILPF to be held in America. Also discusses that the Congress in Hiroshima went very well and assures Mrs. Zeuthen that the congress wasn't dominated by communists though there were delegates from communist countries present. But she defends their presence by saying it is necessary for everyone to work together. [Filed under AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political, Box #1.004 Folder #4.5]
• Letter from Barney L. Taylor to LP RE: Informs that scientists will soon come to widely accept his "vacuum theory" and further defends his ideas about galaxies and their behaviors. Briefly discusses the book he is preparing entitled, Directions and Densities. [Letters from Taylor to LP October 22, 1959, November 24, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1959), #411.4]
• Letter from Caroline Ware, UNESCO, to LP RE: Thanks LP for reviewing the chapter on physical sciences of a manuscript. Says that the omission of a discussion of molecules should be remedied. Inquires if LP would be willing to assist Dr. Wetherill in remedying the defect. [Letters from LP to Ware October 22, 1959, October 30, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1959), #444.7]
• Letter from Charles Price to LP, RE: Price offers his opinions on how the United States should approach the subject of world disarmament. Price asks for LP's thoughts and suggestions on his ideas and opinions. [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, St-Wa), Box #4.015, Folder #15.4]
• Letter from Joan Harris to Mr. De Cruz RE: Says she called and talked to his daughter last week, hopes he received the message that LP is very sorry he can't speak to the Community Council, and explains that his schedule is so heavy he doesn't feel that he can add another speaking engagement to it. [Attached: yellow phone message at the top RE: from De Cruz asking LP to speak at the Community Council] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.2]
• Letter from Robert Glass to LP RE: Glass is asking if LP can give him any assistance in contacting reputable drug manufacturers to ask them to consider producing calcium that is taken from limestone. [LP's reply October 27, 1959] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: Strontium-90, June 1959-November 1959), Box #7.012, Folder #12.17]
• Letter from S. Phelps Platt, Jr., Dodd, Mead & Co., to LP RE: Informs that sales of LP's No More War! have diminished recently. Proposes that LP's royalty be reduced and a small edition be printed to account for reduced sales. [Letter from LP to Platt March 23, 1960] [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
• Letter from Shoichi Sakata, Nagoya University, to LP RE: Requests that LP contribute a paper to the Chubu Nippon Press. [Letter from LP to Sakata October 30, 1959] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a2.4]
• Letter from William Esslinger to LP RE: Suggests that the publisher of No More War! would be more likely to honor LP's request for permission for Esslinger to use excerpts of the book than they would Esslinger's. [Letters from LP to Esslinger September 5, 1959, October 28, 1959] [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: "3,000 hear Pauling assail nuclear peril," New York Times, October 26, 1959. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.410]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Rockefeller Calls for New A-Tests," Pasadena (California) Star-News, October 26, 1959. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: 1959n.47]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Rockefeller calls for new A-tests," Pasadena (California) Star-News, October 26, 1959. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.411]