Memorandum from Linus Pauling to Frank Catchpool. January 9, 1961. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Copy of Letter from LP and AHP to unknown, RE: LP and AHP ask for signatures on the appeal in light of recent events in the international arena which have increased the danger of war.  LP and AHP plan to present the appeal, with the list of names of signers, in early February to the United Nations. [Filed under LP Peace: (Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, January-March, 1961), Box #5.012, Folder #12.1]
• Letter from AHP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Family Correspondence: Peter Jeffress Pauling), Box #5.044, Folder #44.2] 

  12 January 1961

  Dear Petie,

  You have received a copy of our appeal. Would you be willing to send on with the proper air mail postage those which are being mailed to you under separate cover? Then those replys which are returned you would send on to us unopened. Does this involve you more than you want to be?

  We are working very hard and are mailing many hundreds.

  We have included a small slip saying mail to P.P. We hesitated but wanted to get replies quickly if possible.

  If you don't want to do this I believe Thomas and Dorothy Hodgkin would do it, but your address has been enclosed for the signed return.

  We send our love and I'll get your box off when we're through with this.

  Hugs and kisses

  Mama

  Peter, you will do it immediately won't you. AHP? xxxx oooo

• Letter from Christian Bay, Nansen Institute, to AHP, RE: Eagerly awaits AHP’s news in hope that the initial steps toward an international campaign have been taken.  Informs AHP that he has been in touch with C.P. Snow and provides a copy of their correspondence with one another. [Filed under AHP Correspondence: (Bay, Christian, 1961-1963), Box#1.005, Folder #5.7]
• Letter from Culbert L. Olson, President, United Secularists of America, to LP, RE: Olson's Secularist Society of Southern California invites LP to speak about the development of nuclear weapons and their relationship to world peace at their meeting on Sunday, February 12th. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (U: Correspondence, 1936-1970), #421.19]
• Letter from Edwin Bidwell Wilson and Saunders Mac Lane to LP (The members of the National Academy of Sciences) RE: Discusses a change in the rules for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in which the Academy has raised the allowance from $200 to $300 dollars per year, per member. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.4]
• Letter from Graham DuShane, Science, to LP. RE: Asks him for his advice on the enclosed manuscript by Clark and Muus on “Thermal Motions in Polytetrafluoroethylene”. [Note from LP January 17, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Individual Correspondence): Box #374 Folder #374.6]
• Letter from Joan Harris, Secretary to LP, to Anita Monsees, Cornell University Press, RE: Informs that she has been unable to locate clippings of reviews of LP’s first two editions of The Nature of the Chemical Bond.  [Letter from Monsees to Harris November 23, 1960] [Filed under LP Books: 1960b5.5]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP, to Jean Shanberg, American Civil Liberties Union. RE: Apologizes for not writing her sooner. Greatly appreciates having the unused mats. [Letter from Shanberg December 20, 1960]  [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Box # 1960s3, Folder #1960s3.16]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP,, to Stanford University. RE: Requests a copy of their general catalog and of the special catalog for the Hopkins Marine Laboratory. [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2]  
• Letter from LP to Assembly Interim Committee on Public Health RE: LP asks for a copy of the hearing of the Subcommittee on Radiation Protection, “Nuclear Fallout Shelters,” held on November 15th and 16th, 1960.  [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense 1954-1961: Box #7.007, Folder #7.22]
• Letter from Linda Hopkins, Secretary to LP, to Dorothea Kelley, RE: Informs her that LP has not prepared any statement about the San Francisco student riots and has never appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee. [Telegram from Kelley October 30, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(K: Correspondence, 1960) #201.4]       
• Letter from Peter Pauling to LP and AHP. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Family Correspondence: Peter Jeffress Pauling, 1960-1974), Box #5.044, Folder #44.2] 

  12-1-61

  Dear Parents,

  Thank you very much for the presents of the New Yorker, Arizona Highways and Scientific American and the $100. We enjoy them all very much. Daddy, thank you for some books that have come. Chem Bond, 3x DNA models, 2x crystals and crystal growing, Bubbles, and Buerger.

  We are fairly well. Sarah has at last got four teeth after many months teething. Thos. is well and fairly happy. Julia and I are in a state of not knowing what to do.

  Please will you let me have up to $5000 to buy a mews house in north Kensington? I have thought about it for a long time, but have just learned that it is being auctioned on January 18th. It has advantages and disadvantages and would not do as either a permanent home for my family nor as a factory. It would do as a permanent home for me, or as an office and work place for me. It will not be a factory, but workshop, studio, office, flat. I need to have some settled place and it would be excellent. It is close to town, good communications, bus and train. It is in a mews and backs on to the Hammersmith train line which I ride to work. This is a disadvantage in that it is noisy but an advantage in that it is open and airy and sunny and faces south.

  [Diagram of house location]

  Both #1 and #22 are to be auctioned. No 22 is the better one I think. It might be a real bargain and I must have a place of my own to do the things I want. It is a disadvantage that it cannot be a factory but I hope to contract out most of the stuff, at least to begin.

  My lawyer says that to begin with there is no need to incorporate, just register the name. In a few months if bigger then incorporate. What names should I use? Should I use mine and do all my activities in one company Peter Pauling Ltd. or should I use another name. Central Scientific or something? What do you advise?

  I want very much to get some housing. Housing is rising at at least 15% per year in London. The longer we wait the more it is. While this mews is not suitable for everything, it will serve excellently for many things I want to do. I must have a place to work.

  Perhaps you should wire whether it is possible or not. I am sorry the 18th is so close.

  love from

  Peter

• Letter from Professor K.J. Laidler, National Research Council, to LP, RE: Describes the IUPAC Congress to be held in August, 1961, and invites LP to attend and present a paper at the symposium.  Handwritten at the bottom: Personal note from Dr. Laidler inviting LP to attend and act as a chairman in one of the sessions. [Letter from LP to Dr. Laidler, January 19, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1936-1973), #185.1]
• Letter from Stuart Innerst to AHP, RE: Innerst thanks AHP for reminding him of the date of the NATO meeting in May.  Innerst is glad to get a report of the outcome of the meeting on December 22nd  and a follow up.  Innerst wishes AHP the best in her efforts for peace. [Filed under LP Peace: (Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, January-March, 1961), Box #5.012, Folder #12.1]
• Letter from V Kachanov to LP, RE: The Novosty Press Agency is conducting a survey on what prominent figures think the world and their countries will look like in the future.  Sends a questionnaire for LP to fill out; his response will be published by their agency. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1957-1962), #201.5]
• Letter from W. Albert Noyes, Jr. to LP RE: Encloses Linnett’s revised manuscript “A Modification of the Lewis-Langmuir Octet Rule” as well as Linnett’s letter to Noyes and to Referee IV (LP). Noyes asks for LP’s opinion on publication of the paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and says the Journal will abide by LP’s decision. [Letter from LP to Noyes November 9, 1960, Note from LP to Noyes 1-??-61] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder #6.5] 
• Memorandum from G.W. Beadle, California Institute of Technology, to Faculty Members RE: Asks the faculty members to update their records regarding information on consulting and other outside professional activities. Encloses two questionnaires to be filled out. [Filed under LP Biographical: (CIT: Materials re: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1956-1964), Box #1.022, Folder #22.2] 
• Newspaper Clipping [copy]: “Economic Planning for Disarmament Urged by U.C. Analyst, by Frances W. Herring.”  Los Gatos Times-Saratoga Observer. [Filed under AHP Correspondence: (Herring, Frances, 1961-1971, 1975, 1978, 1985), Box # 1.005, Folder# 5.20]
• Receipt from the California Institute of Technology for $130.83. [Filed under LP Biographical: (California Institute of Technology: Assorted Financial Materials, 1945-1965), Box #1.032, Folder #32.5]