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August - General
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Magnetic susceptibility of C6H6, CCl4, etc [by LP and Fred Stitt]


August 1
  • Letter from LP to Professor C. R. Narayan Rao RE: LP encloses a short papers on the x-ray analysis of crystals which he hopes will be satisfactory for the supplement to Current Science. [Rao's reply: 1936-09-08] [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #334]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Star News amount $2.25
  • AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Company amount $4.60
  • AHP writes cheque to: Clara Gilchrist amount $7.75
  • AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company amount $3.90
  • AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $15.60
  • AHP writes cheque to: State Treasurer of California amount $7.98
  • AHP writes cheque to: Katharine Putnam Crane amount $85


August 3
  • Letter from D. C. Carpenter to LP RE: Carpenter has sent the reprints of the papers LP requested, 1936-06-05, and informs LP that the papers went through the Journal in fairly good time. [LP Correspondence: Box #55, file: (Carpenter, Dwight Chance 1936-1944)]
  • Letter from P. P. Ewald to LP RE: Informs LP of his travel plans and asks if he will be at Harvard during the physics lectures. [Filed under: E: Individual Correspondence (Enstrom-Eyering) Box #107]


August 7
  • Letter from Alden H. Emery, Speakers' Touring Service, American Chemical Society to LP RE: Requests that LP give talks at the Puget Sound and Washington-Idaho Border Sections. [LP's reply to Emery 1936-09-03] [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
  • Letter from Frank Blair Hanson, The Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Dr. W. E. Tisdale who is in charge of the Natural Science work of The Rockefeller Foundation will be on the West Coast in the fall to see work that is being supported by the Foundation and would like to visit LP's lab if he will be in Pasadena in the fall. [LP's reply to Hanson 1936-08-26] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 5]


August 8
  • Letter from alph W. C. Wyckoff RE: Asks for LP's opinion of Dr. David Harker in terms of his ability, theoretical and experimental. [LP's reply: 1936-08-12] [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438]


August 9
  • Letter from Thomas S. Chambers to LP RE: Thanks LP for his kind letter of June 8, and expresses his anxiousness to work at the Institute. [Filed under: C: Correspondence, 1921-1957, Box #72]


August 10
  • Letter from Spencer C. Stanford to LP RE: asks LP if he has done any work on the nature of the bond causing association in alcohols. [LP's response: 1936-09-26][Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #372]


August 11
  • Letter from Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks to LP RE: Informs LP that he thinks it best for him to prepare the review alone to ensure the correct information is emphasized. Congratulates LP on his aluminum metaphosphate work. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #156]


August 12
  • Letter from Charles C. Rainey to LP RE: Rainey is interested in obtaining information the several ionic radii of several anions. [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #334]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Ralph W. G. Wycoff RE: LP speaks very highly of Dr. David Harker in terms of personality traits and his work abilities. [Wycoff's letter to LP: 1936-08-08] [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438]


August 13
  • Letter from W. V. Green to LP RE: Introduces Tom Kluge to LP and asks that he advise him as to what endeavor will suit him the best. [Filed under: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #134]
  • LP writes cheque to: Clay C. Miller amount $60


August 14
  • Letter from Victor K. LaMer to LP RE: LaMer asks LP to write a letter of recommendation for Cross if he is interested and available for the teaching job in the experimental physical chemistry laboratory. [Filed under: L: Individual Correspondence, Box #212]


August 17
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt]


August 18
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt]


August 20
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt]
  • Letter from William H. Strain to LP RE: After learning that from Dr. John Leermakers that CIT is developing a biochemistry department, he writes to learn if there would be any openings in this department. Explains that his interests are in the porphyrins and the bile acids. [LP's reply: 1936-08-27] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #372]


August 21
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt]
  • Letter from Robert J. Dery to LP RE: Dery explains that upon talking with LP the other day he has definitely decided to attend the Institute this coming winter. He and wife look forward to moving to Pasadena. [Filed under: D: Correspondence, 1936-1959 Box #95]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Fund amount $36.58


August 22
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Treatment of horse blood [by Fred Stitt]
  • Letter from Dr. K. Lark-Horovitz to LP RE: Explains that he was very interested to learn that LP does no agree with his explanation of the intensity anomaly in the electron diffraction pattern of zinc oxide. Asks LP to please explain his argument. [Filed under: H: Correspondence, Box #158]


August 24
  • Letter from O. L. Inman to LP RE: Asks LP if he is interested in undertaking a study on the chlorophyll series, he encloses several reprints of articles regarding this subject. Inman informs LP that he has talked to the Rockefeller Foundation about funding this project. Also, asks LP if anyone in his Lab would be interested in coming to Ohio to carry out the work if the grant is presented. [LP's reply: 1936-08-28] [Filed under: I Correspondence, Box #185]


August 26
  • Letter from LP to Professor P. P. Ewald RE: LP hopes that Ewald will settle down in the United States and offers to be on the lookout for any job openings. LP regrets to say that he will not be at Harvard and thus will not see him. [Filed under: E: Individual Correspondence (Enstrom-Eyering) Box #107]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. S. C. Stanford to LP RE: explaining that the discussion given by Sidgwick of the hydrogen bond is still accepted in general. The only change being that the bond is now not described as involving hydrogen simultaneously forming two electron pair bonds with other atoms. LP's encloses a reprint of his paper. [Stanford's letter: 1936-08-10] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #372]
  • Letter from LP to Professor Harold C. Urey RE: LP does not know of anyone whom he can recommend for the instructorship open at Columbia. [Filed under: Urey, Harold: Reprints, Correspondence, Box #414]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. J. H. Van Vleck RE: LP reports that Max Mason has been appointed a member of the Executive Council at the Institute and the Chemistry Department is still in a an unorganized state. [Filed under: Van Vleck, J. H. Correspondence, Box #419]
  • Note from W. Wheland to LP RE: Informs LP of his trip to Tennessee and their voyage overseas. Inquires how the book is coming. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #429]
  • Letter from LP to F. B. Hanson, The Rockefeller Foundation RE: LP regrets that his reply has been delayed by his absence from Pasadena. He will however, be in the laboratory during the coming month and would welcome Dr. Tisdale at any time. [Hanson's letter to LP 1936-08-07] [LP Science Box 14.037, Folder 5]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $16.99


August 27
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 13 RE: Magnetic susceptibility of C6H6, CCl4, etc [by LP and Fred Stitt]
  • Letter from LP to Messrs. Beevers and Lipson RE: Thanks them for the strips he has received and the blue prints of the boxes as well. In return LP encloses recent crystal structure reprints. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #35]
  • Letter from LP to G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. RE: LP asks for a copy of Structure Factor Tables by Dr. Kathleen Lonsdale. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #35]
  • Letter from Dodson, Richard to LP RE: Thanks LP for allowing him to stay the summer at his house while working with him in the lab. Asks LP to tie up a few loose ends that were left in his hurry to leave, such as paying the laundry man and telephone bill. Suggests to LP that he look into the work of Dr. David L. Drabkin of the University of Pennsylvania and his work of Blood Analysis. [Filed under: D: Individual Correspondence. (Dil-Dyson): Box #93]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. David Harker RE: Informs Harker that the bill for his article has been paid. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #151]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. C. Frederick Koelsch RE: LP asks for evidence of the radical nature of 2, 3, 6, 7-dibenzanthrocene. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. William H. Strain RE: LP sends separately reprints of his work on hemoglobin. Goes on to explain that as soon as he has completed a reasonable survey of the field he will prepare for publication in a journal such as Physiological Reviews. Regrets to say that before Professor Noyes death, he had made plans to build a biochemistry department, but for the time being, it has been delayed. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #372]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. William E. Vaughan RE: LP regrets to inform Vaughan that the second sample of allene has also been broken during shipment. He apologizes for the trouble and will not ask for another sample. [Filed under: V: Individual Correspondence, Box #420]
  • Letter from Warren Weaver, Director, The Natural Sciences-Rockefeller Foundation to LP RE: Weaver recently visited the Kettering Laboratory at Antioch College under Dr. O. I. Inman. Inman hopes to do work with chlorophyl A and B: natural and related porphyrine studies of the chemical component. He wants a scientist trained by LP to help with this work. Weaver would like LP's opinion on the practicality and feasibility of such a study at Antioch. [LP's reply to Weaver 1936-09-02] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 5]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $1.20
  • AHP writes cheque to: Reinhold Publishing Corporation amount $7


August 28
  • Letter from LP to Dr. D. C. Carpenter RE: LP states that the reprints arrived safely and thanks his for sending them. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #55, file: (Carpenter, Dwight Chance 1936-1944)]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks RE: Informs Dr. Sterling that he too has not heard anything about Smyth's manuscript but hopes to hear something soon. LP has asked Brockway to send several reprints about his electron diffraction work. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box 156]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. O. L. Inman RE: Thanks Inman for the reprints and comments that he would be very interested in this work however, he has thought about it himself and believes that the cost would simply not outweigh the benefits of such a project. However, if Inman wants to continue with this project, LP will be happy to recommend a trained man to help with this work. [Inman's letter: 1936-08-24] [Filed under: I: Correspondence, Box #185]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. Charles C. Rainey RE: LP reports that the complex anions mentioned in his previous letter cannot be assigned ionic radii because they do not have spherical symmetry. [Rainey's letter: 1936-08-12] [Filed under: R: Correspondence, Box #334]
  • AHP writes cheque to: A & P amount $5
  • AHP writes cheque to: Edwin Porter amount $16


August 29
  • Note from W. D. Kumler to LP RE: Asks LP if he knows of any papers regarding the susceptibility of several compounds listed in the letter. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200]
  • Letter from Dr. D. M. Wrinch to LP RE: Asking LP for a copy of his new paper on the denaturation of proteins. Inquires if LP will be in New Your during the fall. [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Clara Gilchrist amount $5.17


August 31
  • LP writes cheque to: A & P amount $10


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