March 8, 1963 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Article: “The Test-Ban Debate.” [Filed under LP Peace: Pauling Peace Research Notes: Box #6.012, Folder #12.3]

Check from AHP to Neighborhood Community Church (Civil Suit Fund) RE: $5.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP March 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from AHP to San Luis Butane Distributors RE: $10.50. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP March 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from AHP to the Weekly Guardian Associates RE: $12.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP April 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from LP to "Am. Soc. Naturalists," $21.00, for "Dues 3 yrs." [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box 4.077, folder 77.1]

Check from LP to "Geochem Soc." $3.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box 4.077, Folder 77.1]

Check from LP to "Joan Harvis," $21.00, for "typing Col. Ch." [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box 4.077, Folder 77.1]

Check from LP to Dr. G. Albrecht RE: $25.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP April 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from LP to Joan R. Harris RE: $21.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP March 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from LP to The Geochemical Society RE: $3.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP April 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Check from LP to the American Society of Naturalists RE: $21.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP April 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Copy of Letter from J. Rotblat to Bertrand Russell RE: Rotblat believes that the Glass-Pauling incident is not a matter of concern for Pugwash. [Copy of Letter from Russell to Rotblat March 15, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Russell, Bertrand 1955-1967: Box #337 Folder #337.7]

Letter from Aaron Ganz, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Institutes of Health, to LP RE: Thanks LP for providing his opinion of Dr. Oleg Jardetzky. [Letter from LP to Ganz March 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(Jardetzky, Oleg and Christine), #188.3]

Letter from Clara Wu, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Institute of Technology, to LP RE: Says that she has been studying LP’s paper, “A Quantum Mechanical Discussion of Orientation of Substituents in Aromatic Molecules,” and trying to calculate the electron densities in some aromatic compounds. She asks LP if he treated the perturbed secular equation of pyridine as a degenerate or non-degenerate case? [Letter from LP to Wu April 10, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]

Letter from LP to Bertrand Russell, RE: LP thanks Russell for his letter about LP's mistreatment. He hopes that Russell will try to publish the letter. As the Editor of the Bulletin has issued invitation for comment on the subject, LP feels that Russell would not be out of place in insisting that his comment be published. He is thoroughly dissatisfied with both Rabinowich and Glass, and is considering resigning from the Board of Sponsors. [Filed under: LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.002]

Letter from LP to Director Gunnar Jahn RE: Tells Jahn about the Oxford Conference he and AHP attended in January, which was not very successful but did set up a Continuing Committee and did make plans for an International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace. LP expresses his admiration for J. D. Bernal, the President of the World Council of Peace. Explains that AHP has been in bed for the last six weeks since returning from the conference but still plans to go on their two-week tour of lectures on peace. [Letter from Jahn to LP June 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Science: (World Academy of Sciences, 1959-1963), Box #14.043, Folder #43.1]

Letter from LP to Dr. M.S. Arnoni, The Minority of One, RE: Apologizes for being slow to respond to his letters. Explains that AHP has been sick, and as a result LP has had some difficulty getting work done. LP says that he is pleased to hear about his work and the plans of the new publication. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15]

Letter from LP to Gary Scott, C.I.T. RE: Rejection of Scott’s application for summer work on anesthesia with LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]

Letter from LP to Kenneth Manly RE: Acceptance of Manly as research assistant for work on anesthetics for summer 1963. LP requests Manly contact Arthur Robinson for further instruction. [Letter from Manly to LP March 6, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]

Letter from LP to Larry Oliver, C.I.T. RE: Rejection of Oliver’s application for summer work on anesthesia with LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]

Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family, Box 5.044, folder 44.5]

8 March 1963

Dear Peter,

I was pleased to receive your technical report No. 1. I have read it with interest, and I look forward to learning about the detailed results on some of the investigations. I have one comment to make about the English—perhaps it is English English, with my being accustomed to American English. You say somewhere "This structure is different to the structure reported earlier"; whereas I would say "This structure is different from".

Mama and I spent ten days at the ranch. I got the manuscript of College Chemistry, third edition, off to the publisher the morning of the day when we left. We drove to Paso Robles, and stayed overnight in a motel, and then went to the Paso Robles airport to meet Linus. However, it was foggy, and his plane did not land, but went on to Santa Maria. Accordingly, as we had agreed with Linus, we drove on toward the ranch, and he rented a car and started off by himself. He saw that we had stopped at the service station, and Mama rode the last 12 miles with him. He stayed two days, and then came for a couple of days with Linda and Barclay before going back to Honolulu. He seemed to be in good shape. We enjoyed seeing him.

Mama was only just able to travel when we went up to the ranch. She has continued to improve in health, but rather slowly. A couple of days ago the doctor said that if she felt up to it she could start out on the lecture tour that she and I are making—we are supposed to start tomorrow (March 9). I think there is still a possibility that Mama will decide to stay home, instead of going to Oregon, where we are scheduled for the first week, and that then she will fly to Chicago and meet me there. This has been the worst spell of sickness that she has ever had.

I am a little worried about the third edition of College Chemistry. It is said to be for use by students who have not had high school chemistry (or who have had high school chemistry), and some sections are pretty simple, as in the second edition. However, even in the earlier chapters the later sections become rather stiff-quantum mechanics, Boltzmann distribution law, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and so on. Also, the book will be about 125 pages longer than before. I don't know whether teachers will decide to use it or not. There are lots of tables of values of enthalpy of formation of compounds, and considerable discussion of properties in relation to atomic sizes, electronegativity, and other atomic properties.

We look forward to hearing about your progress on the flat.

Love from

Letter from LP to Robert W. Marks, Consulting Editor, Bantam Books Inc., RE: LP says that he is not interested in preparing a chemistry text to be published in paperback by Bantam Books. [Letter from Marks to LP March 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2]

Letter from LP to Ruth Adams. [Filed under LP Peace: (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1948-1864), Box #3.016, Folder #16.8]

8 March 1963

Mrs. Ruth Adams

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

935 East 60th Street

Chicago 37, Illinois

Dear Ruth:

While examining the December 1962 issue of the Bulletin, I read again the editor's reply to my letter. His reply ends with the sentence "Since the issue between Dr. Pauling and Dr. Glass is of major importance, the Bulletin welcomes further comment." Moreover, this matter is essentially discussed in my article on Genetic Effects of Weapons Tests that appeared in the same issue of the Bulletin, and I have thought that this article might lead to comment.

I am writing to ask whether anybody has submitted to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists any comment on the matter of the Bentley Glass article or my letter objecting to the untrue and damaging statements made about me in this article or to my article on Genetic Effects of Weapons Tests. Could you give me this information? If any comments have been submitted, I should like to know about the schedule for their publication. Moreover, I think that it might be that I should be allowed to read the material, because of the possibility that I might want to publish same reply or further discussion.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:lh

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