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Correspondence
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Letter from Linus Pauling to Mrs. John Van N. Dorr. September 15, 1938.
Pauling writes to inform Mrs. Dorr that there are no openings available at Caltech
for Ernst Fried, but that there... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Irvin Stewart. April 5, 1939.
Pauling writes to submit his request for a grant from the Committee on Scientific
Aids to Learning for the construction... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Alexander Todd. April 26, 1939.
Pauling writes to provide Todd with an update on his life, mentioning in particular
the impact that the rise of... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Leslie Sutton. September 11, 1939.
Pauling writes to express his sympathy for Sutton "now that the long-feared war is
upon us," and to convey his... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Irvin Stewart. September 19, 1939.
Pauling recommends the construction of Buerger's proposed instrument for making Fourier
syntheses via an optical method. He explains that... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Leslie Sutton. April 2, 1940.
Pauling discusses ongoing developments in wartime Europe and U.S. reluctance to join
combat. He describes the current work of... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Arthur Holly Compton. May 14, 1940.
Pauling writes to inform Compton that he cannot sign Compton's peace petition, as
he does not agree with its "implication... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Richard C. Tolman. June 12, 1940.
In response to a request from the Committee on Defense Cooperation, Pauling writes
to describe the facilities available for use... Transcript. View all information. 5 pages total.
Form letter from Thomas Addis on behalf of the United American Spanish Aid Committee,
San Francisco Chapter. June 19, 1940.
Addis writes to urge the recipients of the letter to contact the French government
and demand the release of imprisoned... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Warren K. Lewis. July 17, 1940.
Pauling writes to convey to Lewis the extent to which both he and other members of
the Caltech staff are... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to W. A. Wooster, August 8, 1940.
Pauling writes to express his interest in the possibility of Max Perutz conducting
protein research at Caltech and to inform... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A.V. Hill and Mrs. Hill. August 26, 1940.
Pauling requests Hill's aid in organizing the evacuation of children from Britain
and placing them in homes in the United... Transcript. View all information.
Form letter from Thomas Addis and Winifred Baker on behalf of the United American
Spanish Aid Committee. September 1940.
Addis and Baker write to implore the recipients of the letter to act on behalf of
refugees persecuted by various... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Vannevar Bush. September 23, 1940.
Pauling writes to accept Bush's offer of a research appointment administered by the
National Defense Research Committee. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to James B. Conant. October 9, 1940.
Pauling writes to covey the details of his idea for an apparatus meant to indicate
"the partial pressure of oxygen... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to W. A. Wooster. October 10, 1940.
Pauling writes to agree with Wooster that it is unfortunate that Max Perutz is not
being allowed to conduct his... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to T.K. Sherwood. November 14, 1940.
Pauling writes to discuss recent research on concentrated hydrogen peroxide. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Richard C. Tolman. December 20, 1940.
Pauling explains the difficulty of readmitting Zechmeister permanently to the U.S.
He describes delays caused by the Mexican government,... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to T. K. Sherwood. February 8, 1941.
Pauling writes to request specifications from Sherwood's office for oxygen meters
to be constructed at Caltech. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Harris M. Chadwell. April 18, 1941.
Pauling writes to recommend that J. Holmes Sturdivant be utilized by the National
Defense Research Committee in its on-going development... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to T. K. Sherwood. May 13, 1941.
Pauling writes to provide Sherwood with an update concerning expenditures related
to, and work done on, the development of a... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Ava Helen Pauling to Thomas Addis. May 20, 1941.
Ava Helen writes to provide a generally positive report on Linus Pauling's return
to health from glomerulonephritis. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to James Conant. June 18, 1941.
Pauling writes to relay his idea for a potential method for determining particle size
in fogs. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Ava Helen Pauling. June 30, 1941.
Linus Jr. writes to update his mother on recent events while she is away. Linus Jr.
notes that he... Transcript. View all information. 5 pages total.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Irvin Stewart. February 17, 1942.
Pauling requests that an NDRC contract be prepared for further development of an oxygen
partial pressure meter. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the California Institute Research Foundation. April 9, 1942.
Pauling writes to recount the history of his invention of the Pauling oxygen meter. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to George Kistiakowsky. April 25, 1942.
Pauling writes to convey his interest in traveling to Bruceton to work with Kistiakowsky
as a consultant. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A. N. Richards. May 12, 1942.
Pauling writes to outline a budget for blood plasma substitute work to be supported
by the Committee on Medical Research. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the California Institute Research Foundation. May 12, 1942.
Pauling writes to propose that he and his co-inventors of the Pauling Oxygen Meter
assign all related patents to the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Edwin J. Cohn. May 21, 1942.
Pauling writes to discuss the early stages of his work on blood plasma substitutes. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from D. W. Winfree to Linus Pauling. May 25, 1942.
Winfree writes to request that Pauling sign and return the attached Annual Secrecy
Agreement, certain stipulations of which are also... Transcript. View all information. 5 pages total.
Letter from Linus Pauling to George Kistiakowsky. May 27, 1942.
Pauling writes to strongly endorse the clearance of J. Holmes Sturdivant for national
defense research, calling him "the most reliable... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to E.C. Barrett. June 12, 1942.
Pauling writes to request that an NDRC sub-contract be issued to the Western Electric
Company in support of a project... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Warren C. Johnson. June 29, 1942.
Pauling writes to provide Johnson with an update on the development of a proposed
carbon monoxide detection instrument, including the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to George Kistiakowsky. June 30, 1942.
Pauling writes to confirm his schedule for traveling to Bruceton to work with Kistiakowsky
as a consultant. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Theodore Dunham. July 15, 1942.
Pauling writes to share his ideas for chemically treating polished-glass lenses for
purposes of preventing corrosion. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Theodore Dunham. July 18, 1942.
Pauling writes to propose a budget for a requested contract to investigate the development
of corrosion-resistant glass surface layers. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Worth H. Rodebush. July 22, 1942.
Pauling writes to update Rodebush on recent progress made on the particle-size detection
instrument. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Howard J. Lucas. July 30, 1942.
Pauling writes to suggest preparations that should be made in anticipation of contract
work to be conducted on corrosion-resistant surface... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Reuben Wood. September 2, 1942.
Pauling writes to provide Wood with an update on recent efforts to manufacture and
implement the Pauling oxygen meter. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to John S. Burlew. September 3, 1942.
Pauling writes to request information from Burlew regarding the erosiveness of specific
rocket propellants and to specifically inquire into the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Robert W. Cairns. September 3, 1942.
Pauling writes to request information from Cairns concerning the characteristics of
nitrocellulose propellants developed in recent years by the Hercules... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Los Angeles Board No. 234 of the U.S. Selective Service
System. October 26, 1942.
Pauling writes to recommend that Eli Mozitt receive a six-month deferment from required
military service in order to assist with... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the Los Angeles Board of Appeal of the U.S. Selective
Service System. November 10, 1942.
Pauling writes to provide further justification for the granting to Eli Mozitt of
a six-month deferment from required military service... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to James Conant. January 12, 1943.
Pauling writes to detail his ideas on the engineering, mechanics and potential effectiveness
of a proposed hyper-velocity gun. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from J. Norton Wilson to John H. Yoe. March 9, 1943.
Wilson writes to summarize the current status of his group's research on the measurement
of carbon monoxide. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Ava Helen Pauling. June 2, 1943.
Linus Jr. writes to relay to his mother the details of his induction into the U.S.
Army Air Corps, including... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Vannevar Bush. July 9, 1943.
Pauling writes to accept a one-year appointment as Consultant to the Committee on
Medical Research. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A. N. Richards. July 9, 1943.
Pauling writes that he has accepted the appointment to Richards' committee and requests
that various resources pertaining to the committee... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Arthur L. Bloomfield. August 21, 1943.
Pauling writes to report on recent conversations concerning work on the treatment
of burn wounds with cephalin preparations. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the Eastman Kodak Company Research Laboratories. October 1, 1943.
Pauling writes to report the details of a fatal accident caused by Eastman Kodak organic
chemicals and to suggest that... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A. N. Richards. November 18, 1943.
Pauling writes to inform Richards of an idea that he and Dan Campbell have had concerning
a potential method for... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Linus Pauling. December 6, 1943.
Linus Jr. writes to inform his father that he has "washed out" of the U.S. Army Air
Corps' air crew... Transcript. View all information. 6 pages total.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling. January 18, 1944.
Linus Jr. writes to his parents to note his new interest in transferring into the
Army medical corps training program,... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Ava Helen Pauling. January 21, 1944.
Linus Jr. writes to discuss family matters with his mother and to offer some thoughts
on the gloomy possibility of... Transcript. View all information. 6 pages total.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the War Manpower Commission, Committee on Scientific
Research Personnel. March 6, 1944.
Pauling writes to acknowledge his inclusion in the Reserved List of the Committee
on Scientific Research Personnel. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to the War Manpower Commission. March 10, 1944.
Pauling writes to acknowledge and accept his appointment to the Reserved List of the
War Manpower Commission. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A. N. Richards. April 5, 1944.
Pauling writes to inquire into whether or not the Committee on Medical Research is
interested in supporting his and Dan... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Ava Helen Pauling. April 7, 1944.
Linus Jr. writes to his mother to discuss his upcoming transfer to Truax Field for
Army Air Corps radio-mechanic and... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Ava Helen Pauling. April 12, 1944.
Linus Jr. writes to his mother to discuss the possible avenues that he may travel
through the military hierarchy, depending... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A. N. Richards. May 1, 1944.
Pauling writes to request that the Committee on Medical Research grant to him and
Dan Campbell a small contract to... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A. N. Richards. June 14, 1944.
Pauling writes to submit his proposal to the Committee on Medical Research for work
on blood plasma substitutes. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to B. O. Raulston. September 19, 1944.
Pauling writes to discuss Dr. Morey Lipkis' oxypolygelatin trials. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to George A. Richter. October 26, 1944.
Pauling writes to request Richter's advice concerning work on invisible inks. Transcript. View all information.
Letters from Linus Pauling to "Chad" [Warren Lothrop?]. November 1, 1944.
Pauling writes two letters, one of which has been treated with the secret ink process,
and requests that "Chad" thoroughly... Transcript. View all information.
Copy of a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Vannevar Bush. November 17, 1944.
President Roosevelt writes to request Bush's recommendations concerning four points
related to the furthering of scientific research in the United... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Lloyd Spencer. December 4, 1944.
Pauling states that, due to Beckman's agreement with the OSRD, the Caltech chemistry
department is not required to file patent... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to A. N. Richards. December 29, 1944.
Pauling writes to forward Dan Campbell's report on their pencillin experiments, which
summarizes work that, in Pauling's judgement, "has so... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Vannevar Bush. January 11, 1945.
Pauling writes to accept appointment to "the special committee which will devote its
attention to the question of the future... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to W. W. Palmer. January 19, 1945.
Pauling writes to note the travel difficulties that hinder his full participation
in the activities of the Palmer Committee. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Frank B. Jewett. January 19, 1945.
Pauling writes to accept a three-year appointment to the Reseach Board for National
Security. Transcript. View all information.
Telegram from Linus Pauling to Homer W. Smith. March 6, 1945.
Pauling writes to suggest that a word choice change be made to a draft of the Palmer
Committee report. Transcript. View all information.
Transcript of an anonymous letter sent to Linus Pauling. March 9, 1945.
An anonymous "neighbor" writes to threaten Pauling with property damage and bodily
harm for his hiring of a Japanese-American gardener. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Roger Adams. April 2, 1945.
Pauling writes to discuss the details of a proposed course of research on interior
ballistics. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Louis Jordan. April 3, 1945.
Pauling writes to discuss the details of his work on metal alloys for use in hypervelocity
guns. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. April 12, 1945.
Writing from a train travelling across the country, Pauling writes of a rumor circulating
that Franklin Delano Roosevelt died earlier... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Roger Adams. May 4, 1945.
Pauling writes to suggest that his research group conduct a study of special alloys
in conjunction with the Navy's interest... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Vannevar Bush. July 20, 1945.
Pauling writes to assure Bush that he will advocate locally in support of Bush's report,
"Science: The Endless Frontier." Transcript. View all information.
Letters from Linus Pauling to Warren C. Lothrop. October 22, 1945.
Pauling writes to certify that no inventions have been made by his group or George
Beadle's group in relation to... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to W. A. Noyes, Jr. November 14, 1945.
Pauling writes to outline the personnel involved with the development of a particle-size
detection instrument as well as the specific... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to J. Robert Oppenheimer. November 26, 1945.
Pauling writes to forward the minutes of a meeting of an informal local nuclear committee.
Pauling also inquires into the... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to the Pauling family. December 4, 1945.
Linus Jr. writes to relay his adventures aboard a military ship sailing from Egypt
to Pakistan. Transcript. View all information. 5 pages total.
Letter from David Shoemaker to the Caltech Faculty. December 13, 1945.
Shoemaker writes to inform the Caltech faculty of the formation of a campus organization
meant to study developments in nuclear... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Paul Emmett. February 25, 1946.
Pauling writes that, given the conclusion of his various war-based research projects,
he'll not likely be traveling to Pittsburgh in... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling. April 24, 1946.
Linus Jr. writes to report of his honorable discharge from the military. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Harlow Shapley. July 3, 1946.
Pauling writes to provide a list of able candidates for appointment to the Atomic
Energy Commission, and also to suggest... Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Alan T. Waterman. April 7, 1954.
Pauling writes to submit a National Science Foundation grant proposal for work on
the configuration of polypeptide chains in proteins. Transcript. View all information.
Letter from Linus Pauling to Ma Hai-teh. February 7, 1974.
Pauling writes to discuss the history of his research on oxypolygelatin. In so doing,
Pauling describes a number of... Transcript. View all information.
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