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- Journal Article: "Scientific Progress in 1930-Chemistry," Scientific American. [Newspaper Clippings: 1931.1]
- Letter from Peter Debye to LP RE: Congratulating the Pauling family on the birth of Peter. [Filed under LP Correspondence,
Box #90]
- AHP writes cheque to: General Contract Purchase Corporation amount $23.30
- AHP writes cheque to: F. C. Nash and Company amount $28.79
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
- AHP writes cheque to: Barker Brothers amount $46
- AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company amount $14.43
- AHP writes cheque to: The May Company amount $10
- AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone company amount $3
- AHP writes cheque to: D. S. Wilkinson amount $3.20
- AHP writes cheque to: Dr. E. H. McMillan amount $15
- AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $3.48
- AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $2.05
- AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company amount $2.03
- AHP writes cheque to: Encyclopedia Britannica amount $16.30
- AHP writes cheque to: Mr. William D. Crane amount $100
- AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Star News amount $1.30
- LP writes cheque to: MacMarr Stores amount $5
- LP writes cheque to: Self amount $50
- Letter from LP to Vernon Kellogg, Permanent Secretary, National Research Council RE: LP is pleased that he has been allowed
a second grant and wishes the sum be paid to E. C. Barrett, C. I. T. Secretary.[Kellogg's letter to LP 1931-02-13] [LP Science Box 14.027, Folder 2]
- Letter from LP to E. C. Barrett, Secretary, California Institute of Technology RE: Requests that Barrett use the $1000 granted
to LP by the NRC to pay half of Dr. J. H. Sturdivant's salary. [LP Science Box 14.027, Folder 2]
- AHP writes cheque to: Golden State Company Ltd. amount $8.36
- AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $3.07
- LP writes cheque to: Security First National Bank of Los Angeles amount $58.05
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
- LP writes cheque to: Collector of Internal Revenue amount $15.96
- LP writes cheque to: Pashgian Brothers amount $25
- Letter from Vernon Kellogg, Permanent Secretary, National Research Council to E. C. Barrett, Secretary, California Institute
of Technology RE: Informing Barrett of LP's grant and notifying him that the $1000 will be sent in quarterly installments
of $250. [LP's letter 1931-03-06] [LP Science Box 14.027, Folder 2]
- Letter from Vernon Kellogg, Permanent Secretary, National Research Council to LP RE: Acknowledgment of LP's note of 1931-03-06; informs LP that Barrett has been contacted. [LP Science Box 14.027, Folder 2]
- AHP writes cheque to: MacMarr Stores, Inc. amount $5
- AHP writes cheque to: D. S. Wilkinson amount $4.32
- Individual Income Tax Return for Calendar Year 1930 [LP Bio: Business & Financial Box 4.001, Folder 1]
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
- AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $2.64
- LP writes cheque to: Cash amount $25
- Filed as 1931x.03.22.LP
Letter from LP to AHP:
[Letterhead]
California Institute of TechnologyPasadenaGates Chemical Laboratory
[Letter]
Sunday at 3Dearest Sweetheart:Did you sleep well last night? I hope you remember not to lift Peter any more than necessary, now that your mother has come.
Did Dicky come too? I expect not. I went to bed at 9, slept all night, and got up at 7, eating breakfast at the Faculty Club.
Before going to bed I made some calculations on the structure of benzane. This morning I prepared my lecture for tomorrow,
and began planning topics for later lectures. Then I went to the drugstore for some shaving soap and mentholatium, had lunch
at a restaurant, and bought Time + Pelican + Life, which I have been reading since. Enclosed are some jokes.I haven't seen anyone yet. I left word for Medlui[?], who is applying for an assistantship, to call me. I am going now to
call on the Latimers + Olsons.It has been cold and foggy today, and I changed to my tweed suit., The sun is now beginning to shine though.I have found that leaving Pasadena enables me to collect my thoughts about my work and to concentrate in a way that has been
impossible there, where there was always students to talk to and think about, and many different problems to attract my attention.
I think that we should always leave Pasadena when I want to write a book, in order to avoid these distractions.I love you more and more each year and day, darling, and I am excited about your coming here. Give Linus and Peter kisses
from me, and take lots for yourself.Your own,Linus
- Manuscript: No Title, [Development of Electron Pair Bond Theory] First Lecture, Berkeley Lectures -- The Nature of the Chemical Bond, University
of California, Berkeley, March 23, 1931. [LP Speeches 1931s.1]
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
- AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $8.50
- Filed as 1931x.03.23.LP
Letter from LP to AHP:
[One of a bundle of letters]
[Letterhead:]
FACULTY CLUBUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
[LP writes;]
Noon, March 23rd, 1931Dearest Sweetheart:I arrived safely, and came to the club, then talked with Zener, who is going to Pasadena tonight. Then I talked a long time
with Bill Giaque, asking him to arrange a wild party for me. G. N. said that it wouldn't be too wild if Giaque arranges it.
I've only seen him for a minute, at lunch. I've seen Eastman (who has a Guggenheim F. for next year), Olson, Latimer so far.
Latimers will have a baby in a few weeks. I'm going to Olson's for dinner tomorrow night. It is fun to be here, but I miss
you, darling, and Linus and Jeff. It is nice that you are coming up next year. My room costs $25: it isn't nearly so nice
as Jamie's at the Atheneum. I love you bushels, darling girl, and shall write you again.Linus.
- Filed as 1931x.03.[23].LP.2
Letter from LP to AHP:
[One of a bundle of letters. Date determined from the dates of two surrounding letters, events in the letters and the
perpetual calendar]
[Letterhead:]
FACULTY CLUBUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
[Letter:]
Monday, 520 PMDearest Sweetheart:I love you, darling, and am hoping that this two-weeks period will pass rapidly. I hope we won't have to be separated again.
We must arrange things so that you can always come with me. did you sleep well? I went to bed early - 830 - with an extra blanket, and slept very well, till 630. I think before on the train I've been too cold. Then this morning I had breakfast on the train, came to the club and took
a shower, put on clean clothes and my red necktie, and prepared my lecture. Before the lecture I talked with Lewis a little.
The lecture itself was well received. After lunch I talked with Lawrence about getting married. He is worried - he says he
thinks that chance is 50-50 that you are less happy after marriage. After talking to me he'll probably be married this spring.
Then I talked to Eastman till 230 about where to go in Europe and what to do, and then, to the German Stuart until 4. He is doing very interesting work. Then
I went to Kramers' lecture, and have just come from there. I haven't much news except that the Latimer girl was born Friday
at 1, just when he and I were talking about it. Lewis announced that tomorrow at seminar he would say something about the
chemical bond. I wonder if I'll have to say something back. Stuart invited me to dinner Wednesday. He is very happy to find
someone who likes Germany. He is worried because Americans report unpleasantness about Fran Debye.I love you, my darling girl, and Linus and little Jeff, and I'll be glad to be with you permanently again. I love seeing you
and loving you, and having such good dinners with you - but most of all just being near you.Your ownLinus
- Filed as 1931x.03.24.LP
Letter from LP to AHP:
[One of a bundle of letters. Date determined from the dates of two surrounding letters, events in the letters and the
perpetual calendar]
[Letterhead:]
FACULTY CLUBUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA10 AM March 24.Dearest girl:How are you feeling? I suppose you are just milking the baby now. It was raining this morning, and with no Peter or Ava Helen
around I didn't waken till 9 o'clock, and haven't eaten breakfast. I'llsurely be glad to see you again. I love you with all
my heart.Yesterday I went to see Rich after lunch. He has a very nice room - rather suite, for he has a bedroom + shares a study with
another boy. He seems quite enthusiastic about his work here. Aunt Lucile is still on the ranch. She is sick now with something.
I met Clyde, the blind boy, who doesn't look blind nor act blind very much, as Richie [?] said. Rich asked me to dinner with
him tomorrow night. He seems to want to arrange some dates for me too!Latimer has a beard. He asked Gibson + Eastman + me in to have some wine yesterday before Kramer's lecture at 4. I hear that
Kramers has a nice wife. They will come to Pasadena for a week about the time I return. I have talked with several people
about their work. Last night I went to a physics seminar, with Kramers talking. Lawrence, Robert, Bulge, [?] Jenkins, etc
were there. Robert is very pleasant. He seems in good spirits - his hair is still long. Then I talked to Lawrence and Kramers
and a biophysicist named Melke or something, and then went to bed. I saw GN and had a little scientific talk with him, but
haven't yet told him that Jeff turned over. That is about all I've done. I'm thinking over my lecture for tomorrow. I think
everyone will be interested in my work - Giaque was quite excited with some of the things I told him. I haven't seen Brode
yet. Harvey Hall was at the seminar. He has just been sentenced to five days in jail for speeding, but he may get a reprieve.Give my love to Linus and Grandma, and little Jeff too, of course, and remember, Darling, that I love you more than anything
in the whole world.YourLinus
- Berkeley Lectures: "The Nature of the Chemical Bond; Lecture 1" [LP Science Box 2.002, Folder 3]
- Filed as 1931x.03.[25].LP
Letter from LP to AHP:
[One of a bundle of letters. Date determined from the dates of two surrounding letters, events in the letters and the
perpetual calendar]
[Letterhead:]
FACULTY CLUBUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
[Linus writes;]
Wed. 230Dearest Ava Helen:I was tickled pink to get your letter yesterday. Are you over being lonesome now? I'm having a hard time getting used to being
away from my own darling girl. Yesterday I had dinner with the Olson's. They have a beautiful big house way up on the top
of the hills - two stories, three baths, study, etc. Robert + Dr + Mr Stuart (from Knigsberg) were there. Then I came home,
read a little, and went to bed. This morning I prepared my lecture + then gave it. Everybody seemed much interested. I had
lunch here at the club with La Mer, Gibson, and Kramers.Tolman is down here. Brode I haven't seem yet - he is staying at home on pins + needles to take his wife to the hospital when
she's ready. I got a book from the library this afternoon - Freud's "Gesammelte Schriften" Vol. V, and bought a Pelican. Here's
a story - William, the perfect butler, was pouring the champagne. He passed Mrs. Tidwinking [?] who said "You didn't fill
my glass, William"; he said "But Madam, I thought you were president of the WCTU!" She said "Why no, I'm president of the
Purity League". William answered "Oh, yes, I knew there was something you didn't do."I'm going to use Hildebrand's office. I have a copy of Time. This morning I told GN that Jeff was a very smart boy, and turned
over just in time. Have you heard that Fowler's wife is dead - I understand in child birth. I received a letter from Rodelursh
[?] saying that the things I criticized in his chapter were due to T Jeff Webb.Today Burge [?] gave me a letter (from him) about some formulas in our book + in Ruark + Urey; he has found R + U's are wrong.
I asked him if it was necessary for me to reply by letter! Yesterday in his lecture Kramers said "--so-and-so obtained this
result in a chemi - - - in an intuitive manner." Today I said "Bartlett carried out this work in a characteristically physi
- that is, he has based a long mathematical discussion on some assumptions that probably are never realized in nature."Everything is OK by me, except that I'm always restless because I want to come home to see you. Love to Linus + Jeff.Your own paddyLinus
- Filed as 1931x.03.[26.]LP
Letter from LP to AHP:
[One of a bundle of letters. Date determined from the dates of two surrounding letters, events in the letters and the
perpetual calendar]
[Letterhead:]
Faculty ClubUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAThursday, 1 PMDearest Sweetheart:I'm sorry to hear that you are being so bad to Linus. If you and he can't get along I'll have to come right back to Pasadena.
Tell Jeff I think of him often (but not half so often as of you) and that he must take good care of his lovely mamma-in order
to insure a satisfactory milk supply.Yesterday evening, after buying three pairs of socks and a new red tie, I went with Rich to his house, and had a nice dinner
and met a couple of good looking young fellows. Then we went to see Aunt Beth. She looks just the same as ever. The boys are
bigger and still lively. Danny looks to me as though he had adenoids. [?] is not changed at all. We stayed till 930 and are going back Sunday. We drove in a car lent to Rich by a girl friend named Patria. She is a Jewess + not good-looking
like Sylvia. She is about 22 and a graduate student in social science or something. She lives with her mother (also a Jewess
etc) who works for the Assoc. Charities or something. I bought a box of candy which Rich gave them when we took the car back
(Patria wasn't home yet from a date, so we left the box with the mother). Unless Rich can find something better he won't be
able to get me into trouble. On coming home I read a while + then slept till 10. Then I went to Kramer's lecture + had lunch
at the club with Kramers, Lawrence, and Gibson, and afterwards talked with Latimer about his clever idea on nuclear structure
(which Oscar Rice Claims is his!). Brade + Mrs B. Are still on tenter hooks. I told Robert + B. when I saw him last [?] mg yesterday afternoon to give her castor oval [?]. Everyone is much interested in the coming event. Next year you must come up, even if we have to put the children in cold storage.Yours Paddy
- Filed as 1931x.03.[26.]LP.2
Letter from LP to AHP:
[One of a bundle of letters. Date determined from the dates of two surrounding letters, events in the letters and the
perpetual calendar]
[Letterhead:]
Faculty Clubuniversity of californiaThursday, 5 PMDearest Ava Helen:I was tickled pink to find two letters from you on getting back -- even though Linus is showing too much acquaintance with
a father's carnal sins. I love you with all my heart, darling, and I'm getting so excited about seeing you that I don't know
what to do. I'm not able to do a bit of work -- I just fool around, doing first one thing and then another, all the time.I went to Stanford on the train, and gave one lecture at 4 and one at 8, with a dinner in between. Everyone said the lectures
were good. Maury and Dorothy and Webster send you their greetings. I stayed over night at Maury's, and had breakfast and lunch
with them. In the Stanford paper it said I was "one of the youngest and most prominent physical chemists;" wouldn't you call
Jeff one of the youngest?Two days ago Mrs. Franklin died, after a cancer operation. The funeral was held yesterday. Maury said Franklin wanted to see
me, so I went over this morning, and told him how sorry I felt for him. He said he was glad to see someone who made a success
of his work and was at the same time a regular gye [sic]. Then he told me about the book he is writing and asked my advice
about some questions, and then took me over to Maury's. I came back on the bus, and bought my tickets to Glendale. . . One
the bus there was a man who had had his gall bladder removed just two weeks ago, at the veteran's hospital. He had an eye
for all the girls -- he told the bus driver that he liked them very short and very plump. He is a "fancy spotter" in a dry
cleaners, specializing on silks. He would say as we passed through a town "There are two cleaners in this town," or "I worked
there for six months," etc. Apparently he saw no scenery but the cleaners.I love you very much. I'm going to dinner at Bray's tonight. I send [sic] some red roses to Bernice Brode, and she wrote a
note back.I love you, darling, and will see you Saturday.Your ownPaddy
- Filed as 1931x.03.26.AHP
Letter from AHP to LP:
[Letter with no date but LP has marked in envelope as 1931]
Thursday 7 pmDear darling:Your sweet letter came this afternoon. You are keeping busy aren't you? I keep busy. Jeff is 24 inches long: his head is 16
inches and I haven't measured his shoulders.. He is a fine, dear boy who seems to like his Mamma.Mary and Ilene called this afternoon. I can't understand Mary. I try and try. She says the meanest things and with no reason--rather
pointless sarcasm. Perhaps I'm hostile and inspire her. I don't know.Linus is really trying. He hasn't had his lunch at school this whole week. Moreover, he goes off without telling me. This
afternoon to Nancy Martels. I think he will be better. I hate being a tyrant.You dear boy! I'm menstruating. This makes me provoked and also weary. I don't know why I should be doing this--probably because
you're not very nice to me.Dear Daddy:I threw you a kiss when you left and then when you left just before I saw the end of the train I started to wave to you but
I didn't know you were so far away from me. Daddy, I am going to give you a surprise when you come back. I am going to give
you an Easter egg when you come back. I am going to be nice when you come back. (I hope so!) I am going to love you. My Easter basket is beautiful. Dear Daddy, I am going to love you. I love you very much. Dear
Daddy! Love and kisses and hugs, Linus Pauling.I haven't done or read or seen anything exciting. I'll be glad when you are here again. Miss Clark said Linus had made the
best Apron. He had to sew it. I feel weary although I haven't done anything. Well, I'm going to stop. This letter is getting too terrible.Goodnight dear Linus.Your girl.P.S. Linus asked Grandma if she had anything to say. She says she hopes you are having a nice time: that you must soon come
home; and that we miss you terribly.Love & kisses
- Manuscript: Change in Quantization. Tetrahedral Eigenfunctions, Second Lecture, Berkeley Lectures -- The Nature of the Chemical Bond, University of California, Berkeley, March 27, 1931.
[LP Speeches 1931s.2]
- AHP writes cheque to: MacMarr Stores Inc. amount $5
- Manuscript: Free or Restricted Rotation, Third Lecture, Berkeley Lectures -- The Nature of the Chemical Bond, University of California, Berkeley, March 30, 1931.
[LP Science Box 2.002, Folder 3/LP Speeches 1931s.3]
- Slater's paper appears in the Physical Review
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $10
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