Letter from Linus Pauling to Don DeVault. July 7, 1961. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Action Memorandum from Lawrence Scott to Selected list of Peace Workers, RE: Invites all to join in the daily vigil in front of the White House to protest nuclear testing.  [Filed under AHP materials re: Women and Peace: (Newsletter and Pamphlets re: Committee for Nonviolent Action; Peace Action Center), Box#4.010, Folder#10.14]
• Letter from Gerard Piel to LP, RE: Piel regrets that the Oslo Statement was not available when the July or July issue of Scientific American went to press.  The August issue is soon to go to press and Piel does not think that it would be relevant to present the Conference as news because it is so late after the Conference took place.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4]
• Letter from L. John Collins to LP, RE: Collins thanks LP for the copy of the Oslo Statement and hopes that LP and AHP will be able to attend the Conference in London in September.  At the moment, funds are not available to pay for participants expenses.  [LP’s letter July 5, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Conferences, 1949-1962), Box #2.010, Folder #10.9]
• Letter from LP to Dr. And Mrs. Courtney Benedict, RE: LP was happy to receive the letter, but sad to miss them on their visit through Pasadena.  LP is also pleased that Mr. And Mrs. McGee will be at the Unitarian Church in Chico. [Note from Courtney and Dotty Benedict to LP, dated “Thursday”] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958-1961), #39.4]
• Letter from LP to Helen Farmer, Southern California Memorial Association, Inc. RE: Thanks her for returning the petition and explains that he and AHP will be presenting another group of signatures to the UN later in the summer. Also gives her permission to list him among the Advisors of the Southern California Memorial Association. [Letter from Farmer to LP June 30, 1961] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Materials re: LP Organizational Affiliations, 1946-1947, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1960-1982), Box #5.058, Folder #58.6]
• Letter from LP to J.H. Wise, RE: LP thanks Wise for his letter and agrees that something is going to have to be done about the economic system. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960-1962), #445.2]
• Letter from LP to Joseph Swanson, RE: LP doesn't know why Mrs. Carl Paul Link would say that LP would be able to speak in Madison on March 8th. LP and AHP are scheduled to make a speaking tour from March 4-24. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960, 1962), #445.2]
• Letter from LP to Kent Richards, RE: LP will be glad to send Richards copies of the Oslo Statement when he needs more.  LP hopes that it will be possible for him to speak before a group of Fellowship of Reconciliation members sometime in the fall.  [Richards’ letter June 30, 1961] [Richards’ reply July 17, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4]
• Letter from LP to L.G. Williams, RE: LP responds to a question about electron configuration of various atoms. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1960-1962), #445.2]
• Letter from LP to Professor Charles H. Best, Best Institute, RE: Encloses a clipping from the Los Angeles Mirror.  It will appear in about 100 newspapers. [Letter from Charles H. Best to LP, July 24, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1958-1961), #39.4]
• Letter from LP to Tormod Forland, RE: LP is pleased to see the translation of Forland’s article that was published in Dagbladet.  LP and AHP are pleased that Forland was able to participate in the Oslo Conference.  [Forland’s letter June 22, 1961]  [Filed under LP Peace: (Oslo Conference Against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, May 2-7, 1961), Box #2.004, Folder #4.4]
• Letter from LP, dictated and signed in his absence, to Dr. Yuri Alekseevitch Kruglyak, Case Institute of Technology, RE: LP was pleased to receive the letter and the reprints, and remembers their conversation with pleasure.  He has not published any papers on the nature of bonds in solvates, but sends his paper on the structure of water. [Letter from Dr. Kruglyak to LP, May 22, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1957-1962), #201.5]
• Letter from LP, dictated and signed in his absence, to Thomas Mitchell, Vice President, Associated Students of La Sierra College, RE: The two proposed dates are unsatisfactory for LP.  He is having difficulty arranging his schedule, and requests that he be approached for a decision in the fall. [Letters from Mitchell to LP, June 19, 1961 and October 8, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.1]
• Letter from LP, dictated, signed in his absence, to Dr. Don DeVault. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Individual Correspondence. (Demerec-Diamond)), #93.4]

  7 July 1961

  Dear Don:

  Thanks for writing to me, a few months ago, about extra sensory perception.

  I continue to be interested in this field, but also I continue to believe that nothing significant has as yet been discovered. It seems to me that the people who work in the field are pretty lacking in ability and imagination. I can think up experiments that seem to me to be much more interesting than the ones that have been carried out, but I am not willing to spend time on them because I think that the chance of getting any results is too small.

  You will be interested to see my paper on A Molecular Theory of General Anesthesia. It is to be in Science. I'll send a reprint to you.

  I have had a letter from Paschkis about the possibility of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science circulating the Oslo Statement, a copy of which enclosed - that is, of its being included in one or the Society's mailings. I have told Paschkis that my wife and I would provide the 2500 copies without charge, and probably could make a contribution to the Society of a sum to cover any extra cost involved in including the statement in the mailing. I hope that you will help in reaching a decision. I wish that the job could be done without much delay.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from the Academic Press to Author [LP] RE: Encloses information on the preparation of manuscripts for his contribution to the Szent-Györgyi Dedicatory Volume. [Letter from LP to Pullman June 22, 1961, Letter from Pullman to LP July 12, 1961] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1961), Box #1961a3, Folder #1961a3.10] 
• Note [handwritten] from Ilse Singer to AHP, RE: Hopes that the WILPF will not be affected by the Cold War and accusations involving Communist values, and expresses her adoration for the efforts of both AHP and LP.  [Filed under AHP materials re: Women and Peace: (Correspondence: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1959-1981), Box#4.001, Folder#1.1]
• Note from Mrs. Davis to LP, RE: Has just received a letter from the publisher saying that the section on fluoridation cannot be removed from the book, despite the fact that he assured her over the phone that it could.  Mrs. Davis apologizes for this. [Note from Mrs. Davis to LP, July 4, 1961] [Letter from Dr. Davis to LP, August 13, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1960-1966), #99.2]
• Note from Professor Heinrich Kluver, University of Chicago, to LP, RE: Professor Kluver is sorry that LP is so far away; it would be a great pleasure to take a walk and discuss various matters, from hydrate crystals to “memory”.  Written on reprint from Ciba Foundation Symposium on the Neurological Basis of Behavior. [Letter from LP to Professor Kluver, August 1, 1961] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Individual Correspondence. (Klein, Samuel-Kusch)), #199.4]
• Reprint: “A Molecular Theory of General Anesthesia,” Science, Vol. 134, No. 3471, pp. 15-21. Includes reprints of the article in Japanese and French. [Filed  under LP Publications: (Publications of LP, 1961), Box #1961p, Folder # 1961p.8]