Letter from Linus Pauling to Gunnar Jahn. May 8, 1962. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to Helga from Matson for $40.00. [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 The Wilderness Society for $10.00. [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] 
• Copy of Letter from James Winston to Robert Morton, RE: Winston shares his thoughts about the quality of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and gives Morton some suggestions about how to increase subscriptions by scientists.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1948-1964), Box #3.016, Folder #16.7]
• Letter from Carlos C. Pearl to LP RE: Asks LP for an autographed photo with a handwritten note. Says that he is a student in Chemistry at the University of Mexico. Handwritten note at the bottom left, “Note and photo sent 12 May 1962.” [Filed under LP Correspondence, P: Correspondence, 1960-1963 314, Folder 314.3]  
• Letter from Evan Gillespie, W. H. Freeman & Co., to LP RE: Makes inquiries about several figures from College Chemistry. Attached are Polaroid photographs of illustrations from College Chemistry that have been relabeled. [Filed under LP Books: 1964b.10]
• Letter from LP [Signed JH] to Louis Leveen, Department of Mental Hygiene, RE: Pleased to be granted the invitation to address the Bureau of Social Work of the State of California, Department of Mental Hygiene. However, due to his schedule LP says that he will not be able to attend. [Letter from Leveen to LP April 26, 1962] [Letter from Leveen to LP April 12, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence), #99.4] 
• Letter from LP to Cornelius Greenway RE: Returns the photograph with his inscription. Tells Greenway that he is sending some other material under separate cover. [Filed under LP Correspondence, G: Correspondence 1962-1965 Box 142, Folder 142.1] 
• Letter from LP to Don Ridgeway RE: Says that he will read Ridgeway’s manuscripts during the next ten days and will then write to Ridgeway about them. [Letter from Ridgeway to LP May 17, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, R: Correspondence, 1960-1963 Box 342 Folder 342.3] 
• Letter from LP to I. S. Edelman RE: Says that he is about to go to the ranch so he can work without interruption and rest for a bit and that they will make a decision about medical care soon. Tells Edelman he will be glad to talk with him about the mechanism of action of vasopressin when he is ready. Talks about winning his first libel suit. [Letter from Edelman to LP March 5, 1962]  [Letter from Edelman to LP September 25, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, E: Correspondence, 1960-1969 Box 113 Folder 113.3]
• Letter from LP to James Moxon, RE: LP thanks Moxon for the invitation to be one of the participants in the Assembly at the Conference of Accra.  LP is not able to accept the invitation because of a previous engagement during the second half of June.  [Moxon’s letter May 5, 1962] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Conferences, 1949-1962), Box #2.010, Folder #10.10]  
• Letter from LP to Linus Jr. and Anita Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Correspondence: Linus Pauling Jr., 1960-1962: Box #5.038 Folder #38.3] 

  12 May 1962

  Dear Linus and Anita,

  Mama and I have been doing a lot of things, and I have decided that I should write to tell you about them. I may have mentioned some of them to you already.

  You know, of course, that we had dinner with President and Mrs. Kennedy and a lot of other people about ten days ago. The President and Mrs. Kennedy joked with us about our having picketed the White House just before coming in to dinner. President Kennedy said "Dr. Pauling - you've been around the White House for a couple of days already, haven't you?", and Mrs. Kennedy said "Dr. Pauling, do you think that it is right for you to walk back and forth out there where Caroline can see you, so that she asks 'What has Daddy done wrong now?'" Also, you may know that Mama and I danced, although dancing was not scheduled. Gerard Piel and his wife had started to dance, as we were walking by the place where the orchestra was playing. Mama thought that it would be proper to help them out - they were the only people dancing - but also to ask Mrs. Kennedy, so she said "Mrs. Kennedy, would it be all right to dance?", and Mrs. Kennedy said "Well, if you want to - you're supposed to be in there listening to the reading by Frederic March, but if you prefer to dance, go ahead." So Mama and I danced a bit, and then went in to listen to the reading.

  Then we went to New York, where I put in four days making a deposition, under oath, in connection with the libel suit that I have against Hearst Publishing Company. You probably know that we have filed four libel suits against newspapers, and may file a fifth. Perhaps you have heard that we have won one of them. The suit against the Bellingham Publishing Company has been settled. They have paid us $16,000, of which about $6,000 goes for lawyer's fees and expenses. I hope that these libel suits will force newspapers to be more careful about what they print about me.

  I have a cold now, but I hope to be over it in a day or two, and on Monday we are planning to go to the ranch. Mama is rather run down, I think. She got pretty tired during the month (March) when we were traveling all over the country lecturing for the American Friends Service Committee. Nearly everyday they had arranged two talks by her and two by me.

  I am just putting the finishing touches on a paper that Peter and I have written jointly - a new theory of antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism, which developed during discussions that we had about this subject when Peter was here around the time of my sixtieth birthday.

  Mama and I had scheduled several trips to Europe this summer, but we have cancelled all of them but one, or possibly two. There is a meeting of one hundred leading peace workers of the world to be held in Ghana in June, and we may decide to go to it. Then I shall give a talk on anesthesia at the International Physiological Congress in Holland in September, and at the same time Mama will be participating in a women's international meeting in Montreal. I hope to spend much time at the ranch this summer, completing the revision of my College Chemistry, but I need to spend some time in Pasadena, also, because I shall have a group of seven people, mostly undergraduates (two from University of London, the others from C.I.T.) carrying out various exploratory studies about anesthetic agents, in an effort to find a way of checking up on my theory of anesthesia.

  On our trip for the American Friends Service Committee several people mentioned seeing you. Most of them were people connected with mental retardation in one way or another - people who were, for example, at Denver. I think one of them said that he had been assigned to the same room as you (Linus).

  Have you seen the movie Lover, Come Back? If not, you ought to see it, because to have two people under the name of Linus in the film gives it a special interest. One of them is the greatest chemist in the world, a Nobel Laureate who is a nonconformist and is incorruptible (except that he opens his eyes at the sight of five thousand-dollar bills), and the other is a man who masquerades as him. Both Mama and I found it pretty amusing.

  Much love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Marianne Smith RE: LP provides guidelines for Smith to use when she is quoting from No More War on the dangers of Strontium-90.  [Letter from Smith to LP September 5, 1961] [Filed under LP Peace:  Materials re: Strontium-90, 1961-1963: Box #7.014, Folder #14.17]
• Letter from LP to Max B. Miller RE: Says that Gabriel Green has his unqualified support in Green’s candidacy for U.S. Senate. Also gives his support to the World Peace Rally. [Letter from Miller to LP May 10, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, M: Correspondence 1962-1964 Box 259, Folder 259.1] 
• Letter from LP to Noel Simmons RE: Says he is happy to learn about the College of Education’s plans to give an award to a promising senior student and gladly gives them his consent to use his name for the award. Asks for the name of the student who will receive the award, so he can send him an inscribed copy of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Letter from Simmons to LP April 25, 1962] [Letter from Simmons to LP May 16, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Organizational Correspondence (So - Su) Box 376 Folder 376.10]
• Letter from LP to Robert Dalton RE: Tells Dalton that he supposes the difficulty the Russian scientists had resulted primarily from poor communication between Dr. Aslanova and Olive Mayer. Thanks Dalton for all the efforts he made in this matter. [Letter from Dalton to LP April 27, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence, S: Correspondence, 1962-1963 Box 382 Folder 382.1] 
• Magazine clipping: “Nuclear Testing Called Politically Motivated” Science News Letter. [Filed under LP Biographical: Scrapbooks: Box #6.008 Folder #8.259]