Letter from Linus Pauling to Roderick Heffron. April 27, 1964. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Pacific Telephone RE: $59.71.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to Petite Beauty Salon RE: $6.50.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to Sonja Larssen RE: $25.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to The Cambrian RE: $4.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to The White House RE: $16.15.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to the Southern California Edison Co. RE: $24.10.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to the Southern California Gas Co. RE: $18.55.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to the Southern California Refuse RE: $12.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Check from AHP to the Standard Oil Company of California RE: $13.92.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP May 19, 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #281.]
• Flier: “War & Peace”, a Series of Three Television Open-Forums, University of Judaism. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.15] 
• Invoice from G. Edwards, Texaco, to LP RE: Total of $3.67.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.061, Folder #61.1]
• Letter from Arthur Cherkin, Research Fellow, to Dr. Philip H. Abelson, Editor of SCIENCE, cc: LP and Dr. Catchpool, RE: Thanks him for sending the 2nd referee’s comments on their manuscript “Temperature Dependence of Anesthesia in Goldfish.” Notes that they have made some corrections and added explanatory notes. Encloses the manuscript for submission. [Also filed under LP Correspondence (C: Individual Correspondence, Chamberlain-Cherkin), #64.8]
• Letter from Clarice Pitta Chapman to LP RE: Notes that Helen Claire Nelson, whom LP met at a party at Dalton Trumbo’s,  asked her to listen to LP speak at the Unitarian Church and report back to her. Explains in detail the experiments she has been carrying out in dog breeding. Mentions that Dr. Firestone of the Valley Mental Hygiene Clinic suggested that there is a possibility that her son, John, suffered from an incidence of brain damage. [Letter from LP to Chapman May 4, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (C: Correspondence, 1963-1965), #77.2]
• Letter from Dr. Roger A. Lewis to LP RE: Lewis is sending LP reprints of a paper he has written  which has not been published yet.  Lewis asks for LP’s opinion on the paper as well as any suggestions for suitable journals for publication.   [Letter from LP to Lewis May 1, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: L: Correspondence, 1964-1966: Box #233 Folder #233.1]
• Letter from Judith Koski to LP RE: Asks LP is he would be available to speak in September of 1964 or June of 1965. [Letter from LP to Koski May 4, 1964]  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963) #411.8]
• Letter from Justin Turner to LP RE: Turner expresses his views on some statements made in 1923 by Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz about using laboratories for the study of God and prayer and spiritual forces.  [Filed under LP Correspondence: T: Correspondence, 1964-1969: Box #412 Folder #412.1]
• Letter from LP to Art Mehaffey, Ohio State University YMCA RE: LP is not able to participate in the Forum on May 12th through 14th as he will be lecturing in San Francisco and Arizona at that same time.  [Letter from Mehaffey to LP April 15, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: O: Correspondence, 1937-1965: Box #300 Folder #300.26]  
• Letter from LP to Carlos Gitler, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecaico Nacional. RE: Accepts the invitation to give an informal talk at the Sociedad Mexicana de Bioquimica on the subject of “A Molecular Theory of General Anesthesia”. Apologizes for the delay in his answer. [Letter from Gitler January 23, 1964] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.19]  
• Letter from LP to Donald J. Lauber. RE: Pleased that he will be receiving the Guedel Association Memorial Medallion on Sunday. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.22]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Roderick Heffron, the Commonwealth Fund. [Letters from Heffron to LP April 22, 196464, April 29, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (H: Correspondence, 1963-1966), #169.2] 

  April 27, 1964

  Dr. Roderick Heffron

  The Commonwealth Fund

  Harknese House

  One East Seventy-Fifth Street

  New York 21, New York

  Dear Rod:

  In answer to your letter of 22 April, I may say that I have been acquainted with Dr. Featherstone for a couple of years (three, I think), and have talked with him several times.

  He has made a good impression on me, as a vigorous and active man interested in the basic principles of biology and medicine. He has a good program of work going on, and he has just arranged to have one of my collaborators added to his staff. (This is Dr. Frank Catchpool, who has been with me for over four years, carrying on research on the molecular basis of anesthesia.)

  The earlier work of Dr. Featherstone with which I am acquainted seems to me to be a reasonably sensible effort to obtain experimental information that would throw light on the problem of the molecular mechanisms involved in anesthesia. Dr. Featherstone has been especially interested in Xenon as an anesthetic agent; I think that this special interest, which he has had for a long time, is itself an indication of how sensible he is in planning his program, since the extremely low chemical reactivity of Xenon (really zero under the conditions in which it acts as an anesthetic agent) already limits very much the possible molecular mechanisms. It was my impression two or three years ago that Dr. Featherstone had an adequate understanding of physical chemistry and a rather meager understanding of structural chemistry. During the recent period he has, I judge, improved his understanding of both of these fields.

  Dr. Featherstone seemed to me to have an amount of originality, creativeness, and initiative such as to permit him to carry out a very effective program of research on the molecular mechanisms involved in anesthesia. His personal qualifications are outstanding - I think that he is a fine man to be the head of a laboratory.

  As to his proposal to get training in X-ray diffraction procedures, by working at Birkbeck College, London, and at Cambridge University, I would say that I doubt that he will become an X-ray crystallographer, but I think that a sabbatical year spent working in the X-ray diffraction field would be valuable to him, in providing him with the understanding of structural chemistry that he needs to have, if in his work on molecular mechanisms involved in anesthesia he concentrates, as he probably will, on the hydrate microcrystal theory that I developed a few years ago.

  I support his application to you, and I recommend its approval.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:cp

• Letter from LP to Felipe Montemayor, Escuela Nacional de Antropologia E. Historia. RE: Accepts the invitation to speak at the National School of Anthropology. Suggests the date May 7 and the topic ‘Molecules and Evolution’. [Letter from Montemayor April 20, 1964] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.18] 
• Letter from LP to Katharine M. Arnett, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, RE: LP does not want to become a member of the WILPF board of Sponsors, but he would be willing to be an Honorary Sponsor. LP requests a copy of the statements made by Senator Humphrey and Philip Noel Baker so that LP can formulate a statement that might be complementary to theirs. [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups. (Wo)), Box #4.016, Folder # 16.1]
• Letter from LP to LP Jr. RE: LP has made an offer on a house in Santa Barbara and has decided not to bring his mineral collection with him. He asks if LP Jr. wants it, and if not he will most likely as Barclay. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box #5.038, Folder #38.4]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Edwin W. Pauley, California Museum of Science and Industry Distinguished Guest Committee, RE: Declines Pauley’s invitation to attend the California Museum of Science and Industry’s banquet on May 21st, because he and AHP are going to be away from Pasadena during that time. [Letter from Pauley to LP April 17, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (C: Correspondence, 1963-1965), #77.2]
• Letter from LP to Reverend Albert D’Orlando, The First Unitarian Church, RE: Tells D’Orlando that he can not accept his invitation to give a public address in New Orleans during Human Rights Week due to his busy schedule. Handwritten note in top, right corner: “Eng Dec US F.” [Letter from D’Orlando to LP April 23, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (F: Correspondence, 1957-1966), #129.8] 
• Letter from LP to Robert L. Woodard, Indiana State College RE: LP thanks Woodard for the maple syrup and notes that it was in good condition when it arrived and tasted great on pancakes. [Letter from Woodard to LP April 16, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: W: Correspondence, 1963-1965: Box #446 Folder #446.2] 
• Letter from Maybel S. Proctor, Coordinating Chairman for Tacoma Women for Peace to LP RE:  Proctor thanks LP for deciding to reprint his Nobel Lecture.  Proctor encloses some letters she sent to Dr. Arnoni regarding requests for reprints of LP’s Nobel Lecture. [Letter from LP to Proctor May 25, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: T: Correspondence, 1964-1969: Box #412 Folder #412.1]
• Letter from Peter to AHP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box #5.044, Folder #44.6]

  Mrs. Ava Helen Pauling

  3500 Fairpoint Street,

  Pasadena 8,

  California.

  27th April, 1964.

  Dear Mamma,

  Thank you very much for all your letters which I have been pleased to get. I have looked in all my files and cannot find the Registration Book and the Bill of Sale for the Mercedes Benz. I am sure I sent them to Papa when the car was sent over. The Registration Book is a piece of brown cardboard about 8 inches x 13 inches which is folded four times to be 8 inches x 3 and 1/4 inches or perhaps a little narrower and contains details of the car and its registration, the previous owners and so forth. If you send me the license plate number of the car I might be able to get a duplication Registration Book up to the point showing me as the last registered owner. It might take a little while but I am sure it is possible since when the car was pinched from me one morning the police found out who the owner was and where he lived, namely me, even though I had only sent in the change of registration a few days previously. The Bill of Sale was a piece of white paper 8 inches x 5 inches just saying that the car was sold to me and signed by the previous owner. I do not know what I could do about getting another one, probably nothing.

  I think that I saw these documents when I came to Pasadena at Christmas 1956. I think it was Crellin who knew where they were then.

  I am rather sorry to sell this car but I think none of us are really rich enough in either time or money to play with it. I certainly need the money more than that car and none of us have the time or really the interest to make proper use of the car.

  We have moved into the top floor flat of our house and have stored most of our junk in boxes on the first floor, that is the floor with the bedrooms. The flat is quite nice though small and the kitchen table arrangement is not very good as yet nor are there any real laundry facilities. Julia is coping quite well. I must resign myself to slow progress on the rest of the house. I have essentially run out of money and cannot employ the people to do the job and consequently I must depend on the labour and finances of the builder who is under contract to me. He has no money and must work on his other jobs, one in particular in order to stay alive. At the moment I am employing a painter to finish painting the outside of the house and to put in the broken glass and to strip the inside of wallpaper but we will have to decorate the inside ourselves, which is what we originally planned. I am also employing a plasterer when he is available to finish doing the plastering. Otherwise I am depending on the builder and he will not be able to put in much effort for several weeks. I made a bad mistake two months ago when I discovered the builder's difficult position by trying to keep him in business as an organization rather than just paying him for labour that he did on my house directly and buying the materials myself. This is the situation that has ended up and there is not much I can do about it.

  The glass has come for my oriel window and I hope to have it finished by the time you are here. The front should then be looking very nice though it will be a bit of a shambles inside.

  It would probably be better for you to stay with Kay Cole where you will be more comfortable and come and see us as often as you can. We would certainly enjoy having you. I am not sure I know when you are coming and how long you will stay. Let me know again if you write.

  We saw Linus Jr. for a day when he came through London and I was certainly very pleased to see him. He and I went to Brighton for the afternoon in order for him to buy some South Sea Island Art for some bloke and we talked a good deal. I would like to see more of him.

  We are looking forward to seeing you,

  Much love from,

• Letter from Talbert H. McCarroll, American Humanist Association, to LP. RE: Invites him to address a public meeting on some relevant topic of humanist concern. [Letter from LP May 25, 1964] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s2 Folder #1964s2.5] 
• Letter from a secretary of Maurice R. Cosyn (illegible signature) to AHP, RE: Cosyn received AHP's letter and sent AHP's enclosed letter to Edouard Le Gait. The secretary gives Le Gait's address so that, in the future, AHP can contact him directly if she wishes to. Assures AHP that they are doing everything they can to give publicity to the Women Strike for Peace demonstration in the Hague, and that there will be a team of Belgian women present. [Filed under AHP Materials re: Peace and Women: (Women International Strike for Peace, 1962-1967), Box #4.004, Folder #4.1]