Letter from Linus Pauling to Sidney Benson. April 8, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to Anna Leskela RE: $21.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to Athenaeum RE: $5.00.  [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 AHP to Donald R. Laing, M.D. RE: $17.50.  [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 AHP to Driftwood Dairy RE: $6.31.  [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 AHP to McBride Animal Hospital RE: $13.75.  [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 AHP to Mira Loma Mutual Water Co. RE: $17.30.  [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 AHP to Northern California Association to Preserve Bodega Head RE: $5.00.  [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 AHP to Pacific Telephone RE: $35.83.  [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 AHP to Pasadena Star News RE: $6.75.  [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 AHP to SOCO Western RE: $20.61.  [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 AHP to Santa Anita Pool Service RE: $109.98.  [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 AHP to Sears Service RE: $5.72.  [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 AHP to Southern Conference Educational Fund 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 AHP to the American Humanist Association 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 AHP to the Internal Revenue Service RE: $71.63.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to the Southern California Gas Company RE: $13.89.  [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 AHP to the Southern California Refuse 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 the Department of Motor Vehicles RE: $53.00  [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 Franchise Tax Board RE: $627.84.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Letter from AHP to Mme Nina Popova RE: Introduces Dr. Isidore Ziferstein and explains that he is a psychiatrist by profession who has be given a research grant by the Foundations’ Fund for Research in Psychiatry to make a study of dynamic psychotherapy in the Soviet Union.  Believes that Popova will find Dr. Ziferstein to be an interesting and informed man. Copy of rough draft attached.  [Filed under AHP Individual Correspondence, Peace and Political: (Correspondence: Tucker, Helen, 1961-1963, 1973, 1980-1981), Box#1.006, Folder#6.20]
• Letter from Bertrand Russell to LP, RE: Russell thanks LP for his letter. He says that he received a letter this morning from Professor Glass which he does not find at all satisfactory. He is, in response, sending a fresh letter to the Bulletin, and has enclosed a copy for LP. [Filed under: LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.002]
• Letter from Bertrand Russell to the Editor, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, RE: Russell informs the editor that he wrote a letter to the Bulletin concerning Professor Glass's criticism of Dr. Pauling, but that it was never published. He hopes that this letter will be. He goes on to recap the statements made by Professor Glass against LP, and points out that Glass's lack of facts makes LP singularly unable to defend himself. The fact that the Bulletin has neglected to print any facts (despite requests for them) is intolerable, and Russell believes that LP is suffering a grave injustice. [Filed under: LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2, Folder 2.002]
• Letter from John Raeburn Green, Green, Hennings, Henry, Evans & Arnold, Attorneys at Law, to LP RE: Discusses a letter to Mr. Hoague, the trial date, a copy of The Minority of One including an article from LP, the deposition of Mr. Newhouse, and a settlement figure for the case. [Letter from LP to Green, April 8, 1963, Letter from LP to Green, April 10, 1963] [LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, 1960-1967: Box #3.003, Folder #3.5]
• Letter from Kurt Heyse to LP RE: Written in German. Requests an autographed photograph of LP.  Attached are a handwritten greeting card and postcard from Heyse written in German. [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]
• Letter from LP To Lloyd Wilkie RE: LP encloses ten dollars for a few more copies of the Directory.  He also explains that he had a bad encounter with Homer Jack also. [Letter from Wilkie to LP December 27, 1962] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1963-1965) #446.1]
• Letter from LP [Signed by Linda Hopkins] to Mrs. Doris M. Dreyfuss, RE: Says that he is grateful to Dreyfuss for her note and the clipping from Vassar Alumnae magazine. LP says that there is noting in the way of a peace research institute in the United States, but there is one in Canada and LP hopes that it will make significant contributions.  
• Letter from LP [Signed by Linda Hopkins] to Robert L. Curry, Jr., Assistant Editor, Northwest Review, University of Oregon, RE: Thanks Curry for further extending the invitation to write an article for the Northwest Review. However, says that his schedule is such that he can not make such a commitment. [Letter from Curry to LP March 30, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]  
• Letter from LP [Signed by Linda Hopkins] to Sidney W. Benson, Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Southern California. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2]

  8 April 1963

  Professor Sidney W. Benson

  Chemistry Department

  University of Southern California

  Los Angeles 7, California

  Dear Sidney:

  I was interested to see your paper as abstracted by the American Chemical Society.

  I do not have enough background in kinetics to form a judgment about your statements. You mention an upper limit of 38.3 kcal/mole for the bond dissociation energy of B2H6, and possible lower limits of 35 and 32, on the basis of assumptions about a rate of recombination.

  What do you think can be said definitely about the lower limit? You probably know that on page 369 of The Nature of the Chemical Bond I have given an argument leading to the value of 23.9 kcal/mole.

  I notice that on page 365 I have a reference to Bauer, Shepp, and McCoy, J.A.C.S. 75, 1003 (1953), who give 32 + 2 kcal/mole for the bond energy.

  I think that my argument for 23.9 is not very reliable, and I should like to know what you think the correct value is.

  Cordially yours,

  Linus Pauling:lh

• Letter from LP [Signed by Linda Hopkins] to Silviu Brucan, Vice President, Comitetul de Radiodifuziune si Televiziune, RE: Apologies for his absence from Pasadena that prevented him from responding on time to Brucan's request. [Letter from Brucan to LP November 28, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]  
• Letter from LP to Dr. James A. Shannon RE: LP encloses the questionnaires for the survey by the National Institutes of Health. LP’s grant No. HE-3136, “Molecular Chemistry Applies to Biology and Medicine.” [Letter from Shannon to LP March 20, 1963] [Filed under LP Science: (United States Public Health Service: Assorted Grants, 1954-1964), Box #14.042, Folder #42.2] 
• Letter from LP to Dr. Phillip S. Hench, Mayo Clinic, RE: Informs that he will not be able to accept the invitation to visit the Mayo Foundation. Shares that he and his wife promised a friend that they would speak at a meeting for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2] 
• Letter from LP to Dr. Sam. Ade. Olaitan RE: LP informs Olaitan that he is unable to send in a manuscript for the new journal. [Letter from Olaitan to LP March 9, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (U: Correspondence, 1936-1970), #421.21] 
• Letter from LP to Harvey J. Gold RE: Discusses Gold’s March 12th letter to LP regarding a position at C.I.T. under the supervision of LP.  LP informs Gold he is no longer supervising much experimental work and therefore cannot accept Gold. [Letter from LP to Dacre February 14, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: Graduate Assistantships, C.I.T., 1935-1964: Box #1.017, Folder #17.2]               
• Letter from LP to Lord Russell RE: LP requests that Isidore Ziferstein visit with Russell when he passes through England to go to the Soviet Union.   [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Z: Individual Correspondence (Zachariasen- Ziferstein)) #464.8]
• Letter from LP to Max Rinkel, The Manfred Sakel Foundation, RE: Returns the revised stenotype recording of his discussion. [Letter from Rinkel to LP January 2, 1963][Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2] 
• Letter from LP to Mr. Joseph Fleshin Publisher, Mainstream, RE: Pleased that he should ask about the possibility of publishing another article by me. Regrets that he is to busy to prepare anything. [Letter from LP to Felshin to LP March 15, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2]
• Letter from LP to Phyllis J. Fleming, Wellesley College, RE: LP regrets to inform Fleming that he is unable to accept the invitation to participate in the science symposium. [Letter from Fleming to LP March 11, 196363 and April 9, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1963-1965) #446.1]
• Letter from LP to Prof. I.W. Evans, Secretary-Treasurer, Public Exercises Committee, Montana State University, RE: Informs that he has decided not to make any engagements at the present time. [Letter from Evans to LP March 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2] 
• Letter from LP to Professor Jack Purvis, Bluffton College, RE: Grateful for the copy of Witmarsum and the Bluffton News. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1963), #314.4]
• Letter from LP to Professor P. Victor Peterson, Jr., RE: LP writes a letter of recommendation for Dr. Richard C. La Force. [Note from La Force to LP 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1933-1969) #427.23] 
• Letter from LP to the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee RE: LP requests a copy of the testimony by the Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (U: Correspondence, 1936-1970) #421.21]
• Letter from Leonard V. Fulton to LP RE: Says that LP’s response to the question, ‘How can I and other men of my standing work concretely for international peace?’ prompted him to ask the same question to others.  Explains his idea of compiling the responses into a book. Requests LP’s reaction to the idea and permission to use LP’s letter in the book. [Letters from Fulton to LP March 9, 1963, July 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence) #129.7]    
• Letter from Paul Brumer to LP RE: Asks several questions on the topic of Chemistry, and also refers back to The Nature of The Chemical Bond. Says that he has a problem with the bonding of molecular O2. Also questions LP on the Molecular Orbital Theory and Valence Bond Theory. [Letter from Brumer to LP April 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2]               
• Letter from Sembutsu-ji, Kitano-Kitamachi, F.A.S.-Zen Institute to LP RE: Says that in light of the present world situation the Institute has decided to address the world with the added appeal. Informs LP what the appeal, titled ‘An appeal for an ethic of all mankind,’ is about and asks that he will also join in supporting the appeal. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence) #129.7]  
• Receipt for Dues: American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry. RE: Present card with $3 to receive one set of abstracts of papers from the Spring/Fall/Winter 1963 meetings. April 8, 1963. [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder #6.5]