Letter from Linus Pauling to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Perlin. Page 1. May 25, 1961
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Activity Listings

  • Letter from Dr. David Pressman, Director of Cancer Research in Biochemistry, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, to LP, RE: Pressman sends a copy of their recent publication as well as a proof for “Acetylation of Antibody and the Effect on Precipitin Reaction” which just appeared in the Journal of Immunology.  Also sends a manuscript of a walk he will be giving this June at the National Colloid Symposium.  He recently read about LP’s work on the structure of water, and asks if he might send him what he has written on the subject.  Handwritten at the top: “For my Antigen lecture Fall 1961.”  Attachment: Symposium Abstract, “The determination of the structure of substances in aqueous solutions by immunochemical means,” by David Pressman. [Letter from LP to Pressman, May 18, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Individual Correspondence. (Polunin - Pritkin)), #309.7]
  • Letter from E.C. Kleiderer, Eli Lilly and Company, to LP RE: Explains that he heard LP’s TV lecture on protein structure the previous week and was wondering how LP’s supply of potassium penicillin V is holding out. Writes that he will send an additional supply whenever LP needs it. [Letter from LP to Kleiderer May 26, 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Assorted Biographical Materials), Box #5.060, Folder #60.1] 
  • Letter from Henry Abrams to LP, RE: Abrams thanks LP for attending the Carnegie Meeting and notes that it was LP and AHP that made the meeting successful.  Abrams notes that Thursday’s meeting arrived at no conclusions and that the problem is how to encourage local committees in activities while preserving a national approach to issues.  [LP’s letter May 17, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.3]
  • Letter from Thomas H. Einstein, NASA, to B.H. Sage, Caltech, RE: Encloses a discussion of some of his views regarding measurements in turbulent channel flow, which he thinks Sage might be interested in. Also comments on several other subjects of interest and asks for Sage’s views and comments on the goals and ideas he wrote about. [Letter from Sage to Einstein June 13, 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: (California Institute of Technology: Committee on Sponsored Research, 1960-1961), Box #1.026, Folder #26.7] 
  • Letter from Vally Weigl to AHP, RE: Weigl has been in contact with three radio stations and a television station who are interested in WNTA and wold be interested in interviewing LP and AHP about the Oslo Conference and the peace movement.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Correspondence re: circulation and signing of An Appeal to Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, April-December, 1961), Box #5.013, Folder #13.1]
  • Newspaper Clipping, “An Open Letter to Chairman Khrushchev,” The New York Times. [Filed under LP Peace: (Publications by and about SANE, 1960-1964), Box #4.005, Folder #5.10]
  • Typescript: “Proposal to NASA-JPL for Research on Advanced Programming Techniques and their Application to Systems Optimization Problems,” submitted by G.D. McCann, approved and returned June 2, 1961. [Filed under LP Biographical: California Institute of Technology: Committee on Sponsored Research, 1960-1961), Box #1.026, Folder #26.5]