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• Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Requests that LP review manuscript by Sickman and Rice to see if it has value even if the experimental data included is inconclusive. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
• Memorandum cheque notifying LP of $75 transfer amount accounts [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Reprint: Rao, A. V. Rotational raman effect in liquids. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences 1 (5): 274-280. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 1]

• AHP writes cheque to: ? Amount $5 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Handwritten note from E. Bright Wilson, Jr. to LP, RE: Tells him that a section on Slater's treatment of molecules will be sent to him once a few critics are finished with it. Explains that the statistical mechanics section will be the next one for him to work on. Asks if LP's received his books, reprints, or the last 2 contributions on matrix mechanics and constants of motion. Also asks how LP is progressing on his sections. Discusses what is happening in Cambridge and the work that James and Coolidge are soon publishing on a treatment of H3. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.53]

• AHP writes cheque to: Dr. H.A. Whipple amount $43 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Hendershot Hardware amount $5.67 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Requests LP review enclosed Communication to the Editor by Dr. Briggs, Director of the Bureau of Standards to see if it is worth publishing if a lengthier paper to extent is to later be published. Also enclosed is an unfavorable review of Davey's book, "A Study of Crystal Structure and its Applications" with a letter from the reviewer, Dr. Zachariasen for LP to review whether it is reasonable. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]

• Handwritten note from LP to E. Bright Wilson, Jr., RE: Asks Bright to write his appendixes soon and lists the topics. Informs him that he has made all but a few drawings up to chapter 9. Explains that he has made various small changes to the earlier chapters and asks Bright to send any changes he wants to have made to LP. Discusses section 24a. Tells Bright that he might come East for J.A.C.S. and Nat. Ac. meetings. Suggests that they speed up and read most of the page proofs when he comes East. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.54]

• LP writes cheque to: Gram Pashigan amount $47.64 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Manuscript Notes: "Li2+ Summary of Results" [LP Science Box 3.004, Folder 3]

• Letter from LP to Dean Whitmore RE: LP explains that he has prepared electron-diffraction photographs of neopentene finding 1.55+/- 0.02 A for the C-C distance. LP is planning to attend the Eastern meetings next year and hopes to meet with Whitmore then. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: A.H. Shaw amount $1.30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Cash amount $10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $4.40 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pi Kappa Delta amount $1.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Handwritten note by LP to E. Bright Wilson, Jr., RE: Encloses some sheets and chapter 10 and says that he will enclose chapter 13 soon. Asks if it's ok with Bright if he omits the Eyring Polanyi section. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.52]

• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $18.27 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: C. E. Powers amount $3.20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]

• LP writes cheque to: R.E. Croonquist amount $3.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Letter from E. Bright Wilson, Jr. to LP, RE: Tell LP that he mailed the section on statistics and one appendix and plans to write something about magnetic susceptibilities and more of the appendices. Encloses some notes and problems from Chapter III. Says that he thinks it would be nice if LP came east that spring. Handwritten note mentions the book that Dr. Hemble is writing for McGraw-Hill. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.64]

• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $6.76 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Chemical Catalog Company amount $7.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $8.98 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Dr. J. Ronna amount $7 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Gould and Attlesey amount $8 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Herbert Hall Company amount $16.40 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corp., amount $3.47 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Model Grocery Co., amount $2.33 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Corset Shop amount $9.22 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Co., amount $3.85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Co. Of California amount $3.38 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: T. W. Mather Co., amount $14.45 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: The American Institute of Physics amount $10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: The MacMillan Co., amount $3.24 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Union Oil Co. Of California amount $1.91 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Letter from Sam Goudsmit, University of Michigan, to LP RE: Goudsmit does not think that White's book is very different from their book except that there are more pictures and diagrams. Discusses his family trip to Holland. Mentions that White sent him a copy of the hfs. chapter but Goudsmit told him he did not have time to read it carefully because he felt that White just wanted to be able to put his (Goudsmit's) name in the preface. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.018.85] May 13, 1933 Note from Sam Goudsmit, University of Michigan, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on his election to the National Academy. Asks if he knows of a job for Bacher and explains the current salary/budget problems at the University of Michigan. Explains that this uncertainty comes at the wrong time-they had just found they are happy here and do not want to return to Europe. Discusses the slow progression of nuclear theory. Goudsmit is expecting a baby in the middle of 08. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.018.85]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pay'n Takit Mkt. No. 63 amount $10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Ruthanna Pollard amount $30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Virginia Bedger amount $4.26 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Letter from Charles Palache, Harvard University, to LP RE: Has LP's note requesting crystals of manganite for X-ray investigation. Sends LP four samples of the only individual crystals he can find in their collection that represent four difference localities. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.018.146]

• AHP writes cheque to: A.H. Shaw amount $1.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: C.E. Powers amount $1.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co., amount $37.37 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: The Knotty Pine Shop amount $2.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: The Knotty Pine Shop amount $2.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Handwritten note from LP to Bright, RE: Encloses Appendix V and Chapter XIII and notes that he added some to Bright's write-up. Tells Bright that he wrote Section 49 on statistics, using Bright's stuff for 49c and plans to add Bright's susceptibility section as 49d. Says that he doesn't know what to do with Eyring's activation energies and has asked Jack about it. Notes that he thinks he can have the manuscript before Christmas, that Sutton will stop to see him, and that he doesn't know if Sidney is leaving or not. [Handwritten note from Bright to LP, November 18, 191934] [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.62]
• Handwritten note from LP to E. Bright Wilson, Jr., RE: Encloses some work that he put in Chapter VII instead of VI. Says that his statistics section arrived. Asks him to send the letter he wrote and forgot to enclose. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.62] 11 23,1 934
• Letter from LP to the Executive Council, California Institute of Technology. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 5]

  November 16, 1934

  The Executive Council,

  California Institute of Technology.

  Gentlemen:

  For three years (1932-5) my researches have been supported by a grant of ten thousand dollars per year made by the Rockefeller Foundation. I have learned informally that the Foundation is not willing to give further support to fundamental researches on molecular structure, but would give serious consideration to an application for support for researches on substances of biological importance, provided that the Institute supports the fundamental researches. I accordingly request that the Institute grant to me a research fund of fiver thousand dollars per year for the three-year period 1935-1938, with the understanding that I apply to the Rockefeller Foundation for a grant of ten thousand dollars per year for the same period.

  Respectfully yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:M

• Letter from LP to the Rockefeller Foundation. [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 5]

  November 22, 1934

  The Rockefeller Foundation,

  49 West Forty-ninth Street,

  New York City.

  Gentlemen:

  For three years (1932-5) my researches have been supported by a grant of ten thousand dollars per year made to the California Institute of Technology by the Rockefeller Foundation. During this time my associates and I have been engaged in developing a combined experimental and theoretical method of attack on difficult structural problems such as arise in biochemistry. This preliminary work (mainly on relatively simple molecules) has progressed very satisfactorily. We now feel, largely because of our discovery of a new and powerful x-ray method, that we are ready to make an intensive attack on the problem of the structure of hemoglobin and chlorophyll by application of these newly-developed methods.

  The hemoglobin project, as described in the following pages, will be difficult and laborious. I feel confident, however, that definite and significant results can be obtained regarding the structure of hemin and related compounds, the nature of the bond to globin, and the process of addition of oxygen molecules, within three years. I accordingly make application to you for a grant of ten thousand dollars per year for three years, from July 1, 1935, to June 30, 1938, to be used in support of researches on the structure of hemoglobin and other complex molecules of biological importance.

  Although we have now developed our methods to such an extent that they can be applied to complex biochemical problems with confidence, I feel that it would be very short-sighted for us to abandon entirely the fundamental investigations such as we have been carrying on, and I plan to continue these researches, on a smaller scale, with the aid of a research fund provided by the California Institute. The Trustees of the Institute have informed me, through Professor Millikan, that the Institute will provide a research fund of five thousand dollars per year during the three-year period 1935-1938, for support of fundamental researches relating to the hemoglobin investigation.

  I wish again to express my belief that the projected unified attack on the problem of the structure of hemoglobin and related substances of biological importance, together with the associated fundamental researches to be supported by the California Institute, will lead to results of great interest.

  Respectfully yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:M

• AHP writes cheque to: C.E. Powers amount $3.20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Letter from Warren Weaver, Director of the Natural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Several factors are impeding the review of LP's grant application including Weaver's own illness which will not allow him to meet with Hanson to discuss his visit Pasadena. Weaver also believes that support will be limited to a one-year period instead of three-year period LP requested, however in the event that a longer commitment is considered, Weaver needs to know if C. I. T. is also committed to the project. [LP's letter November 23, 1934; LP's reply to Weaver November 26, 1934] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 5]

• Handwritten note from E. Bright Wilson, Jr. to LP, RE: Encloses his notes on Chapter V and mentions the formulas that he did and did not check. Discusses his new room in Adams house. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.63]

• Letter from LP to Warren Weaver, Director of the Natural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation.

  November 26, 1934

  Dr. Warren Weaver,

  The Rockefeller Foundation,

  New York.

  Dear Dr. Weaver:

  I am sorry to learn (from Dr. Hanson) of your illness, and that it has prevented your Middle West trip.

  Your letter arrived this morning. I am enclosing my application for a grant of ten thousand dollars a year for the three-year period 1935-8, for support of biological importance. The Trustees of the California Institute have pledged themselves to provide to provide a fund of five thousand dollars a year during this period to be used for fundamental investigations related to the biological program. Professor Millikan is writing separately regarding this.

  The hemoglobin problem is a very difficult one, and I consider it unlikely that we can obtain results providing a real test of our methods in one year. On the other hand, I am confident that within three years we could obtain very valuable information regarding the structure of the hemoglobin substances, the nature of the bond to gloving, the process of addition of oxygen, etc. For this reason the application has been made for a three year period, and I hope that you will think it desirable and find it possible to consider it on this basis. If a grant is made to us for one year only, however, I am sure that we can make good progress in that period. I am anxious to begin applying our structural ideas in a direct attack on the interesting biological problems.

  I was pleased to meet and talk with Dr. Hanson. I am hoping to see him and you in New York next April, on coming East to the National Academy meeting.

  Very sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:M

  Enclosure

• Telegram from LP to Warren Weaver RE: LP notifies Weaver that C. I. T. trustees pledge $5000 per year for three years in support of his researches. [Weaver's letter to LP November 23, 1934; Weaver's reply December 6, 1934] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 5]

• AHP writes cheque to: C.E. Powers amount $4.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Priscilla Nelson amount $12.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Sam Goudsmit. RE: Hasn't seen White's book. Might stop in Ann Arbor in April. Sees and talks with Randall often. [Filed under LP Correspondence: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #137.4]

• AHP writes cheque to: Sears Roebuck amount $8.35 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.012, Folder #2]
• Handwritten note from LP to E. Bright Wilson, Jr., RE: Encloses chapters 1-4 with their figures, which are complete except for a page of references and some problems. Says that he will send more once Bright's corrections for later chapters arrive. [Filed under LP Personal Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.005.49]