Letter from Linus Pauling to Mrs. Stephen W. Sharmat. April 24, 1962. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Article: “Letter to the Editor,” Bates Student. [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1962-1965: Box #7.008, Folder #8.10]       
• Check from AHP to McBride Animal Hospital for $19.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] also [Filed under LP Biographical: Check Registers, 1961-1962: Box # 4.076 Folder #76.5] 
• Check from AHP to Roess Market for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] 
• Check from AHP to Southern California Edison Company for $34.88. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] also [Filed under LP Biographical: Check Registers, 1961-1962: Box # 4.076 Folder #76.5] 
• Check from LP to Miracle Offset from $18.57. [Filed under LP Biographical: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks: First Western Bank, January 1962-December 1962: Box # 4.027 Folder #27.1] also [Filed under LP Biographical: Check Registers, 1961-1963: Box #4.077 Folder #77.1] 
• Check stub from LP to Alivin’s for $10.87. [Filed under LP Biographical: Check Registers, 1961-1963: Box #4.077 Folder #77.1] 
• Handwritten note: ‘Two N.M.W.’s sold to Ned Webb.’ [Filed under LP Biographical: Receipts, 1961-1962: Box #4.060 Folder #60.6] 
• Letter from Angella to AHP, RE: Angella was happy to hear over the radio that LP is heading the movement to ask the government to stop the spread of nuclear weapons testing.  Angella hopes that AHP will be able to attend a conference on July hosted by the Congress of Fighters for Peace.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: petition signers, USA, USSR, Nobel Laureates), Box #5.016, Folder #16.3]
• Letter from Corliss Lamont to LP, RE: Lamont think that LP will be interested to know that he has distributed about 3,000 copies of the Open Letter to President Kennedy on South Vietnam which LP had signed.  Lamont is enclosing four letters which constitute his correspondence with Mr. McGeorge Bundy at the White House.  Lamont thinks that LP will find this exchange interesting.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Vietnam Peace Research Materials, 1962-1972), Box #6.006, Folder #6.1]
• Letter from Director Gunnar Jahn to LP . RE: Jahn thanks LP for his letters, which he has just received, and says that he agrees with LP's stance on the Americans starting atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. He wanted to write a letter to President Kennedy, but as the Chairman of the Nobel Committee, had to inform at least one other member, who disagreed strongly with the idea. Though he can't write to the President, he urges LP and AHP not to stop fighting. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.024]
• Letter from Director Gunnar Jahn to LP RE: Letter is not present in folder, but is referenced in LP’s letter to Jahn May 8, 1962. [Letter from LP to Jahn May 8, 1962] [Filed under LP Science: (World Academy of Sciences, 1959-1963), Box #14.043, Folder #43.1] 
• Letter from Dr. James G. Foulks to LP RE: Foulks has been informed by Dr. Thomas Perry that it is possible to use the Richard W. Lippman Fund to continue Perry’s research of mental illness/deficiency. Asks LP to act as an unpaid consultant to the Department of Pharmacology so he can supervise the application of the fund. [Letter from LP to Foulks May 14, 1962] [Filed under LP Science: (R.W. Lippman Memorial Fund, 1949-1962), Box #14.040, Folder #40.15] 
• Letter from Francis Hoague, to John Raeburn Green. RE: Inform shim that hey have just settled LP’s suit against the Bellingham Publishing Company for $16,000 and a retraction. Summarizes LP’s deposition for the case. Encloses the only portion of the deposition of which he has a copy.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Correspondence re: Pauling v. News Syndicate Co., Inc., 1961-1962: Box #3.020 Folder #20.1]
• Letter from J. D. McCullough to LP RE: Tells LP that he and Homer Stone are revising the laboratory manual for General Chemistry. Requests permission to use some material from The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Says that in some cases they have rounded off to one less digit. Asks if LP has any objection to their proposed usage. [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Individual Correspondence (McClure - McMillan) Box 245, Folder 245.4]
• Letter from Joan Harris to Miracle Offset RE: Encloses three articles to be reproduced in quantities of 1000 each to be sent to LP and a check to cover the cost of these copies. [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Correspondence 1962-1964 Box 259, Folder 259.1] 
• Letter from LP to Donald R. Babin, University of New Brunswick, RE: Writes that he has recommended that Babin be given appointment as Research Fellow in Chemistry for one year. Explains that Babin first needs to learn the techniques of hemoglobin chemistry if he would like to work on the investigation of the chemistry of fetal hemoglobins of animals. [Letter from Babin to LP April 12, 1962, April 30, 1962] [Filed under LP Biographical: (CIT: Materials re: Teaching and Advising of Graduate Students of Linus Pauling, 1935-1963), Box #1.017, Folder #17.3]
• Letter from LP to Fred Snell RE: Says he thinks that he will be too busy to make it to the symposium in February 1963. Also says that he does not know if he would have made enough progress in the structure of water and the influence of solutes to give a significant talk on the subject at that time. [Letter from Snell to LP April 17, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, B: Individual Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 40 Folder 40.1] 
• Letter from LP to Harry M. Kirby RE: Returns the autographed photograph and thanks Kirby and O’Connor for sending the other photographs. [Letter from Kirby to LP April 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Science: (The National Foundation, 1959-1962), Box #14.024, Folder #24.1] 
• Letter from LP to Herman Weisman RE: Says that he will be in Europe at the time of the Seminar and will not be able to attend. [Letter from Weisman to LP April 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, C: Correspondence 1961-1962 Box 76, Folder 76.2] 
• Letter from LP to J.D. Bernal, RE: LP is enclosing a copy of a letter to Homer Jack stating that LP and AHP expect to attend the September Conference.  LP accepts Bernal’s invitation to come to Stockholm for the Congress Committee meeting on May 19th and 20th.   [Letter from Bernal April 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo-Yo), Box #4.017, Folder #17.1]
• Letter from LP to L. H. Farinholt RE: Says that he thinks Dr. S. A. Bernhard can be expected to contribute to the developing field of molecular biology in a significant way. Says he is a very hard worker and able to make use of his intellectual abilities. [Letter from Farinholt to LP April 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, B: Individual Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 40 Folder 40.1] 
• Letter from LP to Mike Blasgen RE: Gives Blasgen details about the paper mentioned and suggestions about how to get a copy. [Letter from Blasgen to LP April 23, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, B: Individual Correspondence, 1962-1964 Box 40 Folder 40.1] 
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Letter from Peter May 17, 1962] [Filed under LP Biographical: Correspondence: Peter Pauling, 1962: Box #5.044 Folder #44.3] 

  25 April 1962

  Dear Peter,

  Mama and I were up at the ranch last week and I put in the time writing the paper on the one-electron-bond theory of antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism, essentially as you had written it. Today I have been looking up same references and I came across a paper that has to be mentioned. It is by J. B. Goodenough, Phys. Rev. 100, 564 (1955).

  He uses the argument about the Hund's-first-rule stabilization of structures with a valence electron parallel to the magnetic moment of the iron atom or manganese atom, and he says that this would cause the covalent bond to have a greater contribution in which the shared electron has positive spin than for a shared electron with negative spin. He calls such an interaction "semi covalent exchange."

  I have not had time to read his whole paper, because it is getting late in the day and tomorrow Mama and I are flying to Washington (we are going to have dinner with President and Mrs. Kennedy in the White House). Would you read Goodenough's paper carefully, and see whether or not he uses our other argument, about 90-degree angles between one-electron bonds with parallel spin - that is, the angle on the nonmetal atom.

  If he does not use this argument, then I think that we can go ahead with the publication of our paper, but with acknowledgment of Goodenough's contribution.

  Would you write to me as soon as you can, telling just what sort of argument Goodenough uses, as compared with ours.

  Also, I think that he discusses essentially only the perovskite structures. You might check up in the abstracts to see whether he has published anything later, about other structures.

  Much love from,

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from Noel Simmons to LP RE: Tells LP about the plans that the State University College of Education has to present a graduating senior who shows the most promise as a high school Chemistry teacher with a special award. Asks if they could use LP’s name for this reward. [Letter from LP to Simmons May 12, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Organizational Correspondence (So - Su) Box 376 Folder 376.10] 
• Letter from Richard Jeter to LP, RE: Jeter asks for clarification on a quote from LP which appeared in a letter to the students at Bates.  Jeter believes that the quote in letter came from a statement by LP which was quoted in Liberation.  [Letter from LP May 17, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1962-1965), Box #7.008, Folder #7.008, Folder #8.10]
• Letter from Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Associate Librarian, American Philosophical Society, to LP .RE: The American Philosophical Society is collecting materials for a history of scientific achievement in the twentieth century, and they believe that LP's work qualifies to be included in the project. They wish to know if LP has plans to leave his papers to another society or university, and if not, encourage him to consider the American Philosophical Society as a suitable place for his work. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.016]
• Letter from William L. Moore to LP RE: Thanks LP for the copy of LP’s book. Encloses a news clipping about the new Peace Candidate for Congress which has its roots at Cornell University. Talks about the article by Leo Szilard about the suggestion of a 2% contribution from interested people for a peace lobby and national political action group. [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Correspondence 1962-1964 Box 259, Folder 259.1] 
• Memo from LP to C.D. Anderson RE: Approves the proposal to the National Science Foundation for partial support of research in long wavelength infrared ground-based astronomy by Bruce C. Murray and Guido Much. [Filed under LP Biographical: (CIT: Committee on Sponsored Research, 1962; other research-related materials, 1945), Box #1.027, Folder #27.3] 
• Memo from LP to E.H. Swift RE: Recommends Donald Ralph Babin for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry and sends his application. Explains that he plans for Babin to work on a comparison of animal fetal hemoglobin in collaboration with Dr. Walter A. Schroeder. [Filed under LP Biographical: (CIT: Materials re: Teaching and Advising of Graduate Students of Linus Pauling, 1935-1963), Box #1.017, Folder #17.3] 
• Newspaper Clipping: “Babies in Smoke Ring: British Medical Journal Warns Pregnant Addicts”, The New York Times, April 25, 1962. RE: This article is glued onto the article “Fight on Smoking Asked in Denmark” (March 9, 1962). [Filed under LP Science: (Assorted Materials re: Other Fields of Science), Box #10.008, Folder #8.4]
• Receipt from First Western Bank for a deposit of $802.76. [Filed under LP Biographical: Receipts: First Western Bank, 1959-1968: Box # 4.030 Folder #30.2]