September 23, 1960 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Letter from AHP to Dorothy Hodgkin. [Filed under AHP Correspondence: Box #1.003, Folder #3.5]

23 September 1960

Dear Dorothy,

It gave me great happiness to write on this envelope this lovely address. I have regretted that I did not have time to congratulate you properly in London. We are always so filled with joy at seeing you and Thomas that we forget to say all of these proper and expected things. You must know, though, how much pleasure it gave us to know that you were one of the two Wolfson Professors. It is, of course, a position which you well deserve and we can think of no one who could fill it more admirably. Nevertheless, it gives us a great personal pleasure to know that you were selected to receive it.

How are you and Thomas? Has he returned from Africa? We think of both of you often and I had hoped to be able to invite Thomas to give our Bill of Rights Day address, but the A.C.L.U. has decided this year not to have a dinner meeting, but to have a large meeting in which we will have some sort of entertainment more suitable to the masses. I regret this very much, and if Thomas were to come to UCLA anyway, then the A.C.L.U. would arrange a somewhat smaller gathering with a dinner at which he would talk to us about Africa. However, if he does not do it this year, then we can arrange for next year. Africa is such an important subject now that I think we should make arrangements for a large gathering this year, but I am not in charge of that department.

Last Sunday there was a large party in our honor given by A.C.L.U., nearly 1500 people and they made a good bit of money. We were glad that it was successful. I shall send you a book about it so that you can see the sort of gathering that it was. I had wanted to give Elizabeth a gift and want her to have a cardigan. I have decided, however, that I do not know enough about her size to buy it here, so I am sending you the money and I hope you will forgive my doing it this way, but will see to it that she gets exactly what she wants. I was touched by her willingness to do my laundry for me when we were with you last summer and I would like just through affection, too, to send her a little present, I hope you will agree to this.

Our affairs are not yet in order, but they should be finished very soon. We hear rumors that the Subcommittee means to vacate the order to Linus, but nothing official has been sent out yet. The Supreme Court makes its decisions on the 10th of October, so that we shall not have to wait much longer in any event. Of course, if the Supreme Court decides against us, and the Subcommittee orders us to produce the signatures, Linus will refuse and the contempt of the Senate citation will follow, although there is a chance that the Senate would vote not to cite him for contempt. But, if he is cited, then, of course, we would have the long court battle. Most people feel that this is not what is going to happen. And for Linus’s scientific work, I hope very much that it doesn't happen. We should be very happy, however, if we could remove this dreadful committee from the American scene. For far too long it has ruined the lives and careers of far too many people. It is time it is brought to an end.

When are you coming to the United States? Are you coming to Canada with Thomas? We were very sorry to give up the Cambridge meeting and I tried to persuade Linus too, but I think we were too distressed to really be of much use anywhere, I do believe, though, that the people in England did not realize the seriousness of this situation. It is no light matter to be cited for contempt by the Senate and many lives have been ruined in just this way. You must know, too, that there are a good number of people in prison right now in the United States for the exact reason that they were citing Linus, namely, the refusal to produce names. The First Amendment protects people in this regard and it is absolutely against our Constitution to ask for these names and to put people in prison when they refuse to divulge them. But, nevertheless, this goes on all of the time. This is really an attack against the peace movement in the United States and we recognized it as such in the beginning.

We are well and happy and this doesn't worry us too much. I only regret the time taken from Linus's scientific work. I, too, have been unable to do a number of the things which I would like to be doing if we could really know just when we shall have to go to Washington. It was a joy to see you and you looked absolutely beautiful in the lovely frock which Thomas was so proud to have purchased for you. It is a joy to see people who love each other and who are happy to be one with the other. Give my love to Thomas and to Luke and Anna and little Dominick who must be running about now in a lovely way.

With love to you,

Ava Helen Pauling

Letter from AHP to George Miller RE: Explains that she did not read his letter when Pat was visiting because they did not have very much time. Discusses the presidential election and explains that she thinks that Kennedy would be a better choice than Nixon. Also discusses people wanting to write in LP as a candidate as a protest. [Letter from Miller to AHP October 6, 1960] [Filed under AHP: AHP's Siblings: Genealogy, Biographical Information, and Correspondence: Box #3.024, Folder #24.2]

Letter from AHP to Gertrude Baer RE: AHP had hoped that Baer would write her about the occurrences at the International Executive Meeting. AHP tells Baer that she will talk about the International Congress of women at the state meeting of the WILPF. Discusses the organization of the International Congress and who would have to send the invitation as well as the problems involved. [Filed under AHP: AHP: Individual Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.005, Folder #5.6]

Letter from AHP to Helen RE: Tells Helen that Jack visited the other day and also thanks Helen for her contribution to the A.C.L.U. party, saying that it was not necessary. Discusses LP's case now going before the Supreme Court. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Personal, N-Z: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]

Letter from AHP to Herbert RE: Briefly discusses LP's case before the Supreme Court. AHP speaks about her children: Linda, Crellin, and Peter. Tells Herbert that they are planning to come to Washington on October 11th. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Personal, N-Z: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]

Letter from AHP to Irving H. Flamm RE: Thanks Flamm for sending the report of his trip abroad and tells him that she and LP were most interested, as well, in their trip to Israel. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.2]

Letter from AHP to Juvenile Court, Gadsden, Alabama RE: AHP hopes that they will release the children of Revered Fred L. Shuttlesworth who were arrested without cause. AHP does not want the world to think that Alabama is South Africa. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.3]

Letter from AHP to Leroy Collins, Executive Mansion RE: AHP protest the sentencing of the Reverend Edward T. Grimm and the Reverend Theodore R. Gibson for refusing to reveal the membership lists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. AHP calls upon the First Amendment, which gives people the right to belong to and meet within organizations and without problems from the government. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.1]

Letter from AHP to Lina RE: AHP apologizes that the shoes were too small and that the color was not right but she is glad that Lina was able to exchange them for something she really wanted. Hopes that Lina got the three pairs of seamless stockings as well. Discusses how her A.C.L.U. party went. Thanks Lina for the beautiful poet. Asks for Lina to send her Sidney's address if she has it. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Personal, N-Z: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]

Letter from AHP to Mrs. John Taylor RE: AHP suggests that Taylor should get in touch with Martin Ray since he uses plastic corks. AHP is sorry that Taylor sold all of her chardenay [sic] since AHP has neglected to order more. AHP discusses holding a wine tasting party. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Personal, N-Z: Box #1.002, Folder #2.2]

Letter from AHP to Mrs. Lawrence Symons RE: AHP was happy to have her letter and sends her a Stone's Weekly so she can get news not otherwise available to her. Discusses the affair with the Internal Subcommittee as well as the United Nations and Fidel Castro (briefly). [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.4]

Letter from AHP to Ray Goodman, Saturday Review RE: AHP wishes to cancel her subscription to the Saturday Review and asks that the unused subscription price be returned to her. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Personal, A-M: Box #1.001, Folder #1.2]

Letter from AHP to Sarah Campion RE: Asks Campion to tell her where they met in Akron. AHP is interested in Campion's activities and hope that she will be able to talk over the radio or television if she comes to the U.S. Would like to know Campion's opinion on having the W.I.L. issue an invitation to women generally, all over the world, to come and discuss disarmament. [Letters from Campion to AHP September 12, 1960, October 4, 1960] [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.1]

Letter from AHP, ACLU to Fellow Citizen RE: Encloses a brochure describing the work of the ACLU and hopes that they will become a member. [Filed under AHP: AHP: American Civil Liberties Union: Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]

Letter from Adam F. Kudlacik, W. H. Freeman & Co., to LP RE: Informs that Charles E. Tuttle Company has been authorized to publish a Modern Asia Edition of General Chemistry. Discusses matters of royalties. [Filed under LP Books: 1953b.1]

Letter from Aileen Cramer, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, to LP. RE: Is delighted that he has consented to address their rally at Commodore Hotel on October 24. Informs him of the character of the rally. Will keep him informed of the final program. [Telegram from LP September 21, 1960] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Folder # 1960s2 Box #1960s2.14]

Letter from Charles D. Coryell to Senator Thomas J. Dodd RE: Informs that he supports LP's position. Discusses LP's May 1957 speech, and possibly including it as background in the committee's record. Shares that he helped collect signatures. Discusses LP's character and work. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box #2.019, Folder #19.1]

Letter from Edward H. Sherman, to LP. RE: Confirms their telephone conversation about LP coming to Denver on November 19th to speak at the 40th anniversary of the ACLU. [Letter from LP September 29, 1960] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP) Box #1960s3 Folder #1960s3.9]

Letter from J. Lee Rankin, Solicitor General, to A. L. Wirin, Attorney at Law, RE: Explains that the anticipated problem to which Wirin referred in a recent letter is a matter for the Committee to decide on. Says the committee will determine if LP's appearance before the committee should be postponed. [Filed under LP Books: Unpb12.1]

Letter from John W. Huntley to LP, RE: Huntley talks about a teacher named Mr. Liu Hsi-Ping who taught in the English Department of The Taiwan Provincial Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. Huntley says that Liu was working on an English-Chinese dictionary and on January 5th he was arrested. Huntley made inquiries about Liu and could not find anything. [Filed under LP Safe: Drawer #2, Folder #2.013]

Letter from LP to Abraham C. Keller, University of Washington. RE: Is unable to accept his invitation. [Letter from Keller June 3, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960) #445.1]

Letter from LP to Arthur Campbell, Harvey Mudd College. RE: Thanks him for talking to Cassyd. Thinks the films are excellent. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Campbell, J. A.) #57.7]

Letter from LP to Bruno Licitra. RE: Pleased that General Chemistry has been translated into Italian. Sends a copy of No More War! to be translated. [Letter from Licitra August 6, 1960][Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1960) # 231.6]

Letter from LP to Chandra Pal Tilak. RE: Pleased to receive his letter. Wishes that he could do something to help him. Cannot be of any help. [Letter from Tilak September 14, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1960) #411.5]

Letter from LP to Elena Garcia Travesi, Prensa Libre. [Filed under LP Correspondence, (P: Correspondence, 1960) #314.1]

23 September 1960

Mrs. Elena Garcia Travesi

Prensa Libre

823 Temple Street

Los Angeles 12, California

Dear Mrs. Travesi:

I regret very much that my greetings to Prensa Libre and to the Mexican people on the 150th Anniversary of Mexico's independence are delayed.

I am happy to send my congratulations to the Mexican people for their celebration of the 150th Anniversary of independence, and also my best hopes for further progress and great development of the Mexican nation.

I send my best wishes also to Prensa Libre.

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling: jh

P.S. Your note and the copies of Prensa Libre arrived while I was away on a European trip. Since my return I have been taking care of my first-class mail, but only now have I been going over the second-class mail.

I am pleased to see the fine article that you published on 22 July about my difficulties with the Internal Security Subcommittee.

L.P.

Letter from LP to Hanna Jensen. RE: Has not heard anything about Nicola Tesla's anti-war machine. [Letter from Jensen September 20, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1960) #192.26]

Letter from LP to Harold Grooms and Herbert Shapiro, Independent Political Forum. RE: Informs them that the title of this speech will be 'Disarmament and World Peace'. Will speak to the student on the same subject in the afternoon. [Letter from Grooms and Shapiro September 18, 1960][Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Folder # 1960s3 Box #1960s3.5]

Letter from LP to Isadore L. Sonnier, Robert E Lee High School. RE: Apologizes for not answering his letter till now. Is not able to accept the invitation to speak before the Louisiana Science Teachers' Association. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1960) # 231.6]

Letter from LP to James A. Ibers. RE: Informs him that he is overwhelmed by work, and is unable to speak for the Alumni Association at this time. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958-1961), Box # 39, Folder #39.3]

Letter from LP to Mark Boulard, Sir George Williams University. RE: Is unable to accept the invitation. [Letter from Boulard September 1, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960) #445.1]

Letter from LP to Martha Rubin, University of Rochester. RE: Accepts her invitation to speak about disarmament on the afternoon of October 23. Suggests the title 'The Necessity for Peace'. [Letter from Rubin 9-60] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Folder # 1960s3 Box #1960s3.5]

Letter from LP to N. C. Khanduri, University of Tennessee. RE: Pleased that he has an assistantship at the University of Tennessee. [Letter from Khanduri September 18, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1960) #201.4]

Letter from LP to Peter J. Ceccotti. RE: Thanks him for his letter and report on hydrate crystals. Looks forward to seeing a copy of his thesis. [August 24, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]

Letter from LP to Peter ['Petey'] Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Family Correspondence: Peter Jeffress Pauling, 1960-1974: Box #5.044, Folder #44.1]

23 September 1960

Dear Petey,

We were happy to have your letter from Nottingham and I think it is fine that you spent some time there with Julia’s parents. I am sure that Thomas has a good time there. Do they still have such a lovely vegetable garden? 1 thought that it would be fun to work with Mr. in this garden. He seems to enjoy working with vegetables about as much, as I do.

I hope that Thomas does go to school again. I am sure that it is very good for him. I should like so much to see little Sarah and surely did enjoy seeing her last summer. It is really uncanny how much she looks like you, especially when she laughs. I could have almost believed that I was holding you again when I held her. Of course, you were much ornier, but, and I suppose I should say not nearly so pretty, certainly she does look very much like you.

I am so glad that you are full of ideas. You always used to be full of ideas and always managed to get about twice as much done as anyone else in any project and it has been hard to understand these years when you seemed unable or unwilling to think or do anything. I suppose this was a necessary reaction to authority and a necessary opposition to what you considered our interference in your life. It is a pity that this is so, because I think that we have been better than the usual parent in allowing our children to select their own way and have shown too somewhat more sympathy with them. The process of growing up is always painful and I suppose always will be.

I came to the end of the role, Petey, and so must stop. I am not too good at this dictating.

Love,

[Linus Pauling, Jr.]

Letter from LP to Ralph R. Lashbrook, Kansas State University. RE: Informs him that his plans for November as still confused. Will makes plans to be there November 18. [Letter from Lashbrook September 26, 1960] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP) Box #1960s3 Folder #1960s3.8]

Letter from LP to Stuart C. Cullen, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia, University of California Medical Center. RE: Apologizes for the delay in answering his letter. Will be glad to take part in the symposium on theories of narcosis. Already has engagements for the 22nd and the evening of the 20th. [Letter from Cullen June 1, 1960, September 27, 1960] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1961), Box # 1961s, Folder # 1961s.3]

Letter from LP to Waclaw Szybalski, University of Wisconsin. RE: Does not know the answers to his questions. [Letter from Szybalski September 9, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1960) #381.1]

Letter from LP to William T. Holser, California Research Corporation. RE: Apologizes for his delay. Is not accepting speaking invitations at present. [Letter from Holser June 1, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1960) Box # 167 Folder #167.5]

Letter from Michael Harrington, Socialist Party, to LP. RE: Delighted to receive the carbon of his letter to William Davidson. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1960a2.11]

Letter from Nina Bell Allen Reader's Digest, to LP. RE: Informs him that his letter has gone to Kenneth Payne. Informs him that he will be in touch with him shortly. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Reader's Digest) # 339.2]

Letter from Steve Allen to Sane Supporter, RE: Allen will be in New York on October 3rd and is inviting LP to a nightclub party. Allen hopes to see LP at the event. [Filed under LP Peace: (SANE, 1958-1966, 1982), Box #4.003, Folder #3.9]

Letter from Syd Cassyd, Administrative Aide to LP, to Sam P. Edwards, Second Coming, RE: Says that LP is unable to prepare an article for the magazine but suggests that they use LP's article reprinted from the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin. States conditions of use of the article. [Letter from Edwards to LP September 5, 1960] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1959a2.6]

Memo from Syd Cassyd, to LP. RE: Asks if he can take some of his previous statements. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Cassyd, Syd) #57.15]

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