Letter from Linus Pauling to J. Lynn Hoard. October 14, 1936. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $3.55 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: C. J. Gould amount $8 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $12.61 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Dr. E. H. McMillan amount $12 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fortner and Loud amount $21.74 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Goode's Seed and Feed amount $10.15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Helen K. Smythe, Treasurer, Book Club amount $5.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Katharine Putnam Crane amount $85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation amount $3.15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Model Grocery Company amount $22.15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Sanitary Laundry amount $3.20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Company amount $3.91 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Company of California amount $32.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: T. W. Mather Company amount $53.11 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP submits for consideration for publication his paper, "The Adjacent Charge Rule and the Structure of Methyl nitrate and Fluorine Nitrate." [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Hildegard Stcklen RE: LP explains that Dr. Brockway has prepared electron diffraction photographs of the two 2-butenes and concluded that the decision which Kistiakowsky has made regarding their identification was correct. [Hildegard's note: October 9, 1936] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, box #377.6]
• Letter from LP to J. L. Hoard. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #159.10]

  October 14, 1936

  Dr. J. L. Hoard

  Cornell University

  Ithaca, New York

  Dear Lynn:

  From the indirect news that has reached me by way of Sturdivant, I have learned that you are getting settled satisfactorily at Cornell. I am sure that you will be well pleased with Sturdivant's new tube when yours is completed. The first edition of the tube has been in operation for several months now and has worked very well. Most of the crystal structure work going on in the laboratory now is being done by Helmholz. He is reinvestigating potassium dihydrogen phosphate and silver phosphate, and is also studying (NH₄)₂H₂IO₆, which seems to have a simple structure based on a rhombohedral lattice, and H₅I0₆₊, which has a monoclinic unit 18 A in one direction and about 5 A in the other two. James and I have been devoting so is time to several crystals, all of which have turned out to be more or less disappointing, including B₄C, Ca₃Al₂O₆, CoCl₂.C₆H₁₂N₄.

  I have just run across some good crystals of K₄Mo(CN)₈ which I had thought of investigating with the collaboration of a new graduate student named Dery. It seems to me, however, that you told me that you had begun work on this substance. Would you let me know whether this is so or not, and, if so, what results you have obtained, so that we shall not be duplicating your efforts.

  Please give my regards to Professors Gibbs, Richtmeyer, Johnson, and Kirkwood.

  With best wishes and the hope that we shall meet your wife before too much time goes by, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:ml

• Letter from LP to Professor C. K. Ingold RE: After visiting with Professor Hill who had been visiting Pasadena LP realizes what he will be missing by not going to London. LP mentions that Ingold's papers on benzene in the Journal of the Chemical Society have gotten a lot of interest at CIT. [Filed under: I: Individual Correspondence, Box #181.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor C. S. Schoepfle RE: LP explains that Dr. Brockway will be at Princeton during the Christmas holidays giving lectures at the American Chemical Society Symposium. At this time it will be possible for him to stop in Ann Arbor on his way back to Pasadena. LP wonders if he would still like Brockway to stop by. [Schoepfle's reply: November 5, 1936] [Filed under: S: correspondence, box #377.6]