Letter from Linus Pauling to Gunnar Jahn. December 16, 1964. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Card: [written in spanish] [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family: Box #5.020, Folder #20.9]
• Letter from D. M. Alexander, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, to LP. RE: Thanks him for coming to Brisbane and his successful lecture. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP 1964: Box #1964s2 Folder #1964s2.4] 
• Letter from John Cairns, Gunther Stent, and James D. Watson, University of California, Berkeley, to LP. RE: Enlists his participation for a Festschrift in honor of the 60th birthday of Max Delbruck. [Letter from LP March 19, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence (1965): Box #383 Folder #383.2]
• Letter from John F. Catchpool, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, to LP RE: Attached a letter from Science, which gives permission to use the figures from LP’s paper provided LP consents. Asks for LP’s permission. Encloses a copy of the final version of his paper that was sent to the New York Academy of Sciences. Notes that they made many attempts to photograph the model adequately. [Letter from LP to Catchpool December 23, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (Catchpool, John Francis, 1959-1994), #62.6] 
• Letter from LP to G. Milton Shy, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, RE: Accepts the invitation to address Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society on May 21. Requests verification that this does not interfere with his participation in any part of the Bicentennial Program. [Letters from Shy to LP December 9, 1964, December 28, 1964] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1965: Box #1965s Folder #1965s.10] 
• Letter from LP to G. Milton Shy, M.D. RE: LP says he is pleased to accept Shy’s invitation to speak on Friday, May 21, 1965. LP says according to his records he is going to give his Bicentenary Lecture on May 21. [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1964-1965: Box #383 Folder #383.1]  
• Letter from LP to Gunnar Jahn.   [Filed under LP Correspondence: J: Individual Correspondence (Jack-Jariwalla): Box #188 Folder #188.2] [Filed under LP Correspondence: K: Individual Correspondence (Kennedy-Klein, Morton): Box #198 Folder #198.10]

  December 16, 1964

  Gunnar Jahn, Director

  0vre Slottsgate 2

  Oslo, Norway

  Dear

  I have been wanting to write to you, but have not wanted to disturb you during the period of the year when you are so busy.

  My wife and I have had a very difficult and strenuous period of our life, during the last two months. First, we spent one month in Australia, from 15 October to 15 November. We had been invited by the Australian Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament. We participated in the Congress, which was, I think, a great success. I estimate that about 15 thousand different people were present at the meetings of which either my wife or I, or both of us, spoke. We gave two or three talks every day, and visited all of the principal cities of Australia and a number of the smaller ones.

  The Congress was conducted very well. The only unsatisfactory aspect of it was that the Government of Australia attacked it, with the false contention that it was dominated by Communists. We were able to satisfy ourselves that this was not true. The Congress was arranged by University people and professional people whom we had met before, for the most part, and was conducted in a thoroughly democratic way.

  Nevertheless, the government refused visas to some of the people who had been invited from foreign countries, and the United States government cooperated by holding up, in transit, one of the people who had been invited, a professor in the University of Chile.

  After our return last month, I spent ten days on a lecture tour of the eastern and middle western United States. Both in Australia and on this tour I gave lectures on science and medicine as well as on peace.

  Then my wife became ill, with a severe infection, which has settled in her ears and has not yet been healed. I am hoping that she will be well before long.

  We are very happy, as I am sure you are, that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1964 to Martin Luther King has been received with such great approval. I was especially pleased that the people of Oslo were so enthusiastic, as reported in Time and Newsweek, and in the American newspapers, also. I enclose the page from Time. I think that my wife is sending you a page from the local newspaper.

  We both send you our love, and our best wishes for Christmas and a Happy New Year.

  Sincerely yours,

  mjh Linus Pauling

  Enc.

• Letter from LP to Jeffrey S. Stamps RE: LP says he is pleased that Stamps would write to him to invite him to participate in the University of New Hampshire’s conference on “The Transformation of American Democracy.” LP regrets to say that is schedule for April requires that he be in California during the period 19 to 21 April and that he cannot accept the invitation. [Letter from Stamps to LP: December 8, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence: S: Correspondence, 1964-1965: Box #383 Folder #383.1]  
• Letter from LP to Jeffrey Stamps RE: LP is not able to accept the invitation to attend the conference on “The Transformation of American Democracy” sponsored by the student of the University of New Hampshire. [Filed under LP Correspondence: N: Correspondence, 1957-1964: Box #288 Folder #288.8] 
• Letter from LP to Morton D. Bogdonoff, M.D., American Federation for Clinical Research, RE: Accepts Bogdonoff’s invitation to participate in the Symposium on May 1, 1965 in Atlantic City. [Letter from Bogdonoff to LP December 14, 1964] [Filed under LP Correspondence (B: Correspondence, 1962-1964), #40.3] 
• Letter from Marcelia J. Hill, Secretary to LP, to the Gentlemen at the American Academy of Arts at Sciences RE: Notifies them that LP’s new address is in Big Sur, California and that he no longer lives in Pasadena.  [Filed under LP Correspondence (A: Correspondence, 1962-1965), #14.3]       
• Letter from Wesley L. Hershey, Caltech YMCA, to LP. RE: Asks him to speak at one of his Friday groups during the next couple months. [Letter from LP January 6, 1965] [Filed under LP Correspondence: H: Correspondence, 1963-1966: Box #169 Folder #169.3] 
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP RE: “Receipt Portion.”  For a deposit. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.1]
• Receipt from Sunset Rock Company to LP RE: $70.46 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.069, Folder #69.4]
• Statement from General Telephone Company to LP RE: Total of $27.06.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.061, Folder #61.1]       
• Statement from W.H. Freeman and Company to LP RE: For income tax purposes. [Form: “Federal Income Tax Forms” 1964] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.002, Folder #2.8]