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April 1
  • Memorandum cheque notifying LP of $50 transfer among accounts


April 4
  • LP writes cheque to: Arsenal Square Trust amount $80


April 7
  • Note from T. W. J. Taylor to LP RE: Taylor regrets that LP cannot come to England this year. He thinks LP's prediction in his paper in the March issue of the J. A. C. S. about the anion [Mo(CN)6] cannot be fulfilled and goes on to explain his reasoning.[Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #400]
  • Manuscript: Resonance of a Molecule among Several Electronic Structures and Interatomic Distances in Covalent Molecules, First Lecture, M.I.T. Lectures on Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 7, 1932.[LP Science Box 2.002, Folder 6/LP Speeches 1932s.13]


April 9
  • AHP writes cheque to: The Vanguard Press amount $2.10
  • AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. M. M. Fillmore amount $30
  • AHP writes cheque to: Arroyo Poultry Farm amount $1.01
  • AHP writes cheque to: William D. Crane amount $100
  • AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporations amount $12.47
  • AHP writes cheque to: T. W. Mather Company Inc. amount $33.90
  • AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Co. amount $3.86
  • AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $3.44
  • AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $2.05
  • AHP writes cheque to: A. C. Vroman amount $6
  • AHP writes cheque to: F. C. Nash and Company amount $48.81


April 10
  • Letter from Jack Sherman to LP RE: Ralph Hultgren and Sherman have been working on the evaluation of Slater's “F” and “G” integrals and will send LP the results soon. Sherman will finish his thesis and would like LP's advice about obtaining a position for the next year if he does not get a Fellowship with the National Research Council. [Sherman's next letter 1932-04-18] [LP Science Box 2.005, Folder 1]


April 11
  • Article from Time, RE: Write-up on the 1932 winner of the Langmuir Prize, Oscar Knefler Rice comparing him to LP [LP Scrapbooks 6.002]


April 12
  • AHP writes cheque to: Faculty Club amount $11.05
  • AHP writes cheque to: Golden State Company, Ltd. amount $10.74
  • AHP writes cheque to: Office of City Assessor of Pasadena amount $4.32
  • AHP writes cheque to: Postal Telegraph and Cable Company amount $0.47
  • AHP writes cheque to: The Chemical Catalog amount $2.55
  • AHP writes cheque to: Hancock Music Company amount $12


April 13
  • Letter from Maurice Huggins to LP RE: Huggins has been appointed a Johnston Scholar at Johns Hopkins for the coming year. He would like to know how his joint paper with LP is progressing. [LP Science Box 5.001, Folder 8]
  • Notes entitled: “Basic Strength of Quanidines,” for Chapter VIII of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Filed under: LP Books, 1939b.6]


April 14
  • Manuscript: The Hydrogen Halides, Second Lecture, M.I.T. Lectures on Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 14, 1932. [LP Science Box 2.002, Folder 6/LP Speeches 1932s.14]


April 18
  • Letter from Jack Sherman to LP RE: enclosed formulae obtained for Slater's “F” and “G” integrals, will resume work on it in June and would appreciate LP's commentary on the work; encloses photo from Star-News. “Report on Wave Mechanics, Slater's Theory of Complex Spectra” included . [Sherman's previous letter 1932-04-10] [LP Science Box 2.005, Folder 1]


April 20
  • Letter from Bright Wilson Jr. To LP RE: Wilson informs LP that he presented the results of his calculations before the Wednesday Seminar and sends LP his results of HCl, Hbr, and HI. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #433]
  • LP writes cheque to: Ralph Hultgren amount $10


April 21
  • Manuscript: The Energy of Single Bonds and the Electronegativity of Atoms, Third Lecture, M.I.T. Lectures on Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21, 1932. [LP Science Box 2.002, Folder 6/LP Speeches 1932s.15]


April 22
  • Letter from Albert L. Barrows, Assistant Secretary, National Research Council to LP RE: LP's grant application to the NRC has been deferred because the Committee has decided to review its policy in making successive grants. If LP's grant should be approved, it is not likely that it will be for $1000 as the total funds available for grant distribution are half of what they were for the previous year. [Previous letter 1932-02-29; Barrows' next letter 1932-06-14] [LP Science Box 14.027, Folder 2]
  • AHP writes cheque to: J. E. Harvey, M. D. amount $19


April 25
  • Letter from Robert A. Millikan to LP RE: Asks LP to please sign and agree to pay $12 to help the Athenaeum come out of their debt. [Filed under: Millikan, Robert–Box #244]
  • LP writes cheque to: Harvard Trust Co. amount $200


April 30
  • Letter from W. A. Noyes to Professor Lewis RE: Asks if he would be willing to consider the revision of his book on Valence in cooperation with Dr. Linus Pauling. [Filed under: G. N. Lewis Correspondence, Box #216]


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