March 22, 1961 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Letter from Linus Pauling to Gunnar Jahn. Page 1. March 23, 1961

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Letter from AHP to 100 Days for Peace Committee; Attn: Mrs. Loewi, RE: AHP has sent a number of requests for petitions to the 100 Days for Peace headquarters. AHP is worried that their supply is not large enough to fill all these orders. AHP asks that Loewi write to her and let her know if they are filling orders or if they are experiencing difficulties. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Alice Herz to LP, RE: Herz asks for 20 copies of the appeal and hopes to have many of her friends sign. Herz is a member of the WILPF and the peace groups of the First Unitarian Universalist Church. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Allen Strasburger to LP, RE: Strasburger is sending in a check for $25.00 to help LP pay for postage and handling expenses on the petition. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Bert Cochran to LP, RE: Discusses the fundamental laws of electrons, which are the basis of everything. Attachment: the essay “The Fountain of Youth”. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #76.1]
Letter from Blanche Murphy to AHP, RE: Murphy asks that AHP send fifteen copies of the appeal to Dr. John R. Scott. Murphy has had success in circulating the appeal and things that Scott will too. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Cyrus S. Eaton, The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, to LP, RE: Could not acquire extra copies of the General Electric Defense Quarterly, and therefor can only send excerpts form the more important articles, with the most provocative paragraphs marked. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Individual Correspondence. (Eastman-Eide), #106.2]
Letter from D. Skobeltzyn to LP, RE: Skobeltzyn would like to attend the Oslo Conference but his work for April is very overloaded and he is not able to make a definite decision at this point.+ [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Edward Beechert Jr. to LP, RE: Beechert asks for three copies of the petition so that he may have a small part in the effort to achieve sanity in the world. Beechert thanks LP for his service to humanity. [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 #12.4]
Letter from G. Ganuaut to LP, RE: Ganuaut is enclosing a small contribution of $1.00 for mailing expenses of the petition. Ganuaut congratulates LP on his great courage. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Hideki Yukawa to LP, RE: Yukawa thanks LP for the invitation to the Oslo Conference. Yukawa does not think that he will be able to attend the Conference. However, he thinks that his wife is a more appropriate guest. She is willing to attend and is prepared to participate in the Conference. [Reply from Robert Schutz April 4, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.002, Folder #2.2]
Letter from LP to Alan Van Poznak RE: LP would be pleased to sent Poznak a reprint of his paper on anesthesia which he thinks will appear in Science. [Letter from Poznak to LP March 13, 1961] [Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: Anesthesia Research, 1959-1983), Box #12.001, Folder #1.3]
Letter from LP to Barclay Kamb, RE: Updates him on their travels for the past week. They went to Seattle to deal with a libel suit, and to San Francisco to give a talk arranged by the American Friends Committee on Legislation, and then to Cleveland, where they attended the meeting by the American Humanist Association. There he was given a plaque stating that he is the “Humanist of the Year, 1961". Then to Toronto, where they spoke at a meeting arranged by the Toronto Committee for Disarmament. Tonight they will have dinner with Otto Bastiansen, and then in a couple days they will go to the ranch. He and Peter have come up with a new idea about antiferromagnetism. He has also read some of Barclay’s work, and thinks that he should write a book. Linda has probably told him that they will be moving out of their house soon, and hope to have the ranch completed. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: (Box 2, Family Correspondence: Linda Helen Pauling Kamb, 1960-1988), Walter Barclay Kamb, 1960-1981]
Letter from LP to Ben Shahn, RE: LP is asking Shahn to take part in the Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons. LP expects to have about 75 participants from 15 countries to discuss the problem of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. LP is prepared to pay for Shahn’s travel expense and living expenses during the Conference. [Shahn’s reply April 7, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from LP to Canon John L. Collins, RE: LP is pleased to give Collins permission to use his name in a list of sponsors for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament for Students and Youth. [Collins’ letter 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am-Co), Box #4.010, Folder #10.7]
Letter from LP to Durham Monsma, RE: LP suggests his book No More War!, which is probably available in his library, and Fallout, edited by John M. Fowler, Basic Books, 1960. [Note from Monsma to LP, undated] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1959-1961), #258.3]
Letter from LP to G. Wilkinson, RE: LP thanks Wilkinson for the references, but doesn't think that Wilkinson has answered LP's main question from his letter of March 15th. LP did not ask for references to the whole molecular-orbital method and ligand-field theory, but rather that Wilkinson provide one case in which he discusses some important structural problem by each of these methods. At Wilkinson's suggestion, LP has reread Moffit's article of 1954 on dicyclopentadienyl compounds. LP finds the article interesting, but says that no chemist could possibly understand it without unusual mathematical background and experience, and that in spite of Moffit's complex mathematics, Moffit himself admitted that he could not come to an absolute conclusion in regards to the nature of titanium biscyclopentadienyl. LP still hopes that Wilkinson can offer a non-mathematical discussion in which either the molecular-orbital method or the ligand-field treatment is given of some structural problem, so that LP can include it in the next edition of his book. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960, 1962), #445.2]
Letter from LP to Gabriel S. Thomas. RE: Thanks him for his encouraging statements. Would be pleased to have him write about his problems at work. [Letter from Thomas December 21, 1960, May 2, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1960) #411.5]
Letter from LP to Gordon Sendziak RE: Explains that his associates are carrying out some work on phenylketonuria but that there is no possibility for them to use Sendziak in their research. Handwritten “Ford–patients.” [Note from Sendziak to LP March 18, 1961] [Filed under LP Science: (Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1966), Box #11.089, Folder #89.10]
Letter from LP to Herbert Jehle, RE: LP is asking Jehle to take part in the Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons. LP expects to have about 75 participants from 15 countries to discuss the problem of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. LP is prepared to pay for Jehle’s travel expense and living expenses during the Conference. [Jehle’s reply March 31, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from LP to K. C. Shrivastava. RE: Thanks him for writing. Is sorry to say that he is unable to supervise graduate studies and cannot consider his request. [Letter from Shrivastava undated] [Filed under LP Correspondence (S: Correspondence, 1961): Box #381 Folder #381.2]
Letter from LP to Peter Pauling RE: LP encloses a rough draft of his and Peter’s paper on one-electron bonds and antiferromagnetism along with some notes. Asks Peter for any ideas and suggests that they publish the paper without making any calculations. [Typescript March 12, 1961] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP), Box #1962a3, Folder #1962a3.9]
Letter from LP to Professor Harold Hart, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, RE: LP’s wishes he could serve as the editor or one of the editors of the volume on chemical bonding for the series of reprints of classic papers, but is too busy at the moment. [Letter from Professor Hart to LP, March 15, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #168.1]
Letter from LP to Professor J. B. Neilands, Department of Biochemistry, University of California Berkeley, RE: LP is sorry that he missed Neilands, and hoped that the discussion with Dr. Marsh was beneficial. Eichorn decided that it wasn’t worthwhile to work on ferrichrome any longer, but Hodgkin or Morgulis are willing to pick it up. [Letter from Neilands to LP, March 13, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Individual Correspondence): Box #276 Folder #276.6]
Letter from Lou Harrison to LP, RE: Since he leaves for the Orient in three days, he does not have time to gather any more than a few signatures for LP’s appeal, and is very ashamed. As proof that he regards this matter as the only and first concern for any of us, and has written the enclosed essay, which he will revise when he returns. Norman Cousins liked it, and he hopes LP will too. Attachments: “On the Separation of War from State” and a pamphlet on Lou Harrison. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #168.1]
Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Carl V. Nelson to LP, RE: The Nelsons are enclosing a signed petition along with a stamped envelope so that LP may send them more copies of the appeal. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Nora Rodd to LP, RE: Rodd is the National Secretary for the Congress of Canadian Women and the group was happy to have heard LP speaking in Toronto recently. Rodd is enclosing $2.00 to cover the postage expenses of sending some petitions. The Congress sends their best wishes for LP’s continued success. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Peter Lerke, Assistant Research Bacteriologist, Hooper Foundation, University of California Medical Center, to LP, RE: Asks for LP’s advice: his wife underwent urological surgery two years ago and had 25-30 X-ray photos taken of her abdominal area. They already have two children but would like to have at least one more; would this be advisable? [Letter from LP to Lerke, March 24, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.1]
Letter from Richard H. Sullivan, President of Reed College, to LP RE: Asks LP if he would be willing to interview with the G.A. Brakeley & Co., Inc. as a contribution to the study they are conducting concerning the significance and fund-raising potential of Reed College. [Letter from LP to Sullivan March 29, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence (R: Organizational Correspondence, Ra-Ro), #339.4]
Letter from Robert Schutz to 100 Days for Peace Committee, RE: Schutz asks the committee to send 500 copies of the petition, in five separate packages, to the Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter. [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 #12.4]
Letter from Secretary to Gunnar Myrdal to LP, RE: Myrdal has received three more names from Signe Hojer to add to the current list of signers. [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.002, Folder #2.1]
Letter from Stan Clark, San Jose City College, to LP. RE: Invites him to a speaking engagement during the coming school year. [Letter from LP March 28, 1961] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1962) Box #1962s Folder #1962s.12]
Letter from Vernise Frazekas to LP, RE: Frazekas is the secretary for the London Peace Committee and she requests fifteen copies of the appeal so that the committee may circulate them for signatures. Frazekas sends her best wishes for the success of LP’s presentation 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 #12.4]
Newspaper Clipping: “Bullyragging,” The Washington Post, March 22, 1961. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1964), Box #3.006, Folder #6.13]
Newspaper Clipping: “Linus Pauling’s Case,” The Dallas Morning News, March 22, 1961. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Articles and Newspaper Clippings re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1966), Box #2.023, Folder #23.11]
Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling to Head Nuclear Conference,” Pasadena (California) Star-News, March 22, 1961. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1961-1965), Box #6.008, Folder #8.47]
Newspaper Clipping: “Roknings farlighet i formler,” Svenska Dagbladet, March 22, 1961. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1961-1965), Box #6.008, Folder #8.47]
Note from Judith Ewing to LP, RE: Apologizes that she and her husband could not make it to LP’s birthday celebration. Updates LP on the state of Fred’s illness, and how he desperately wants some kind of mental stimulation but can’t seem to find it. If LP or any of his colleagues could help in this area, she would be much appreciative. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Individual Correspondence. (Enstrom-Eyster), #110.5]
Typescript: “Proposal to the National Science Foundation for Research in Functional Analysis and its Applications.” Approved and returned March 22, 1961. [Filed under LP Biographical: California Institute of Technology: Committee on Sponsored Research, 1960-1961), Box #1.026, Folder #26.2]