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• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP recommends that the paper by Young, Vinograd and Bollenger be not accepted for publication as a Communication to the Editor. [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from Union Oil Company of California to LP RE: While impressed with Neuburger's qualifications, they do not see any prospect in the near future of having a suitable opening. [Filed under: N: Correspondence, Box #287, Folder #287.5]
• Letter from W. J. Gertner to LP RE: Explains to LP that they are sending for inspection proof of the corrections that were made in "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics." Urges LP to return these proofs without delay. [Filed under LP Books: Box 1935b, Folder 1935b.1]
• Letter from Walter Soller to LP RE: thanking LP for recommending Dr. Darrell Osborne and asks LP to please forward the enclosed application form to Dr. Osborne. [LP's reply: August 4, 1938] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]

• AHP writes cheque to: Betty Vanderlaan amount $15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Rose Vanderlaan amount $25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to E. C. Barrett, C. I. T. RE: LP requests that a payment of $100.00 be made from the Rockefeller Fund Organic to Mr. Kermit Jacobsom for traveling expenses from Canistota, SD and recommends his appoint as Stockroom Keeper at $125.00 per month. [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.038, Folder #38.3]
• Letter from W. A. Noyes to LP RE: Noyes sent Lind a copy of his LP's letter of July 3rd and 5th, and encloses his reply. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279, Folder #279.4]

• Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Alanine
• Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Preparation of 3-p-nitrophenylhydantoin and 3-p-nitrophenyl-5-methylhydantoin

• AHP writes cheque to: Wesley Unfried amount $2 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Walter Soller RE: informing Dr. Soller that Dr. Osborne and his wife have decided that for financial reasons, he could not accept the appointment this year. [Soller's letter: August 1, 1938] [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]
• Letter from Otto Laporte to LP RE: Asking LP to submit a short paper and dedication to Professor Sommerfeld, to be included in the December 1st issue of the Physical Review, in celebration of his 70th birthday. [Laporte's next letter: August 14, 1938, LP's reply: August 15, 1938] [Filed under: Sommerfeld, Arnold: Reprints, Correspondence, Box #366, Folder #366.1]

• Letter from LP to Professor W. A. Noyes RE: LP believes that the action he is taking regarding lithoprinting the Patterson-Capell Catalogue is most satisfactory. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #279, Folder #279.4]

• Research notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Chromatographic experiments

• Letter from Grace Kidney to Mr. Stosick RE: Asking for confirmation regarding a printing order and shipping of 200 reprints. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255, Folder #255.5]
• Letter from Mary Elizabeth Dorr to the Gentlemen at CIT RE: Inquires about the possibility of finding work for Ernst Fried, an analytical chemist who because he is a Jew will be exiled from Austria. Enclosed is a list of his education and work. [LP's reply: August 17, 1938] [Filed under: F: Correspondence, Box #128, Folder #128.4]
• Letter from Secretary to LP to Mack Printing Co., RE: Asking for the details on the invoice dated July 31, 1938 to LP. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255, Folder #255.5]
• Note from N. C. Walker to LP RE: Asking what foreign languages are required for a degree at CIT. [LP's reply: August 15, 1938] [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443, Folder #443.6]
• Research Notebook of LP RE: Inorganic ions

• AHP writes cheque to: Arlette Beauty Salon amount $2 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: California Institute of Technology amount $85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Ralph W. G. Wyckoff. [Filed under W: Correspondence, Box #438, Folder #13]

  August 12, 1938

  Dr. Ralph W. G. Wyckoff

  Laderle Laboratories

  Pearl River

  New York

  Dear Wyckoff:

  Dr. David Harker has a very good understanding of crystal structure methods, of quantum mechanics in its chemical applications, and of modern structural chemistry in general. He is, I believe, thoroughly equipped to give advanced courses in these subjects and to direct research as well as to teach elementary chemistry as ho is doing at Johns Hopkins.

  As a graduate student here he carried out several interesting structure determinations — pyrargyrite, tetradymite, CuCl₂, 2H₂O. He also developed an interesting and useful variant of Patterson's Fourier series method, and discovered the Murdock circles independently of Murdock. He made an excellent record in my course in the quantum mechanics, and carried out an original investigation of some orthogonal functions. This work was not published because the functions were discovered later to have been already treated by a mathematician.

  Harker is a very pleasant man personally. He was trained in a somewhat unconventional manner at a progressive elementary and preparatory school and when he came hero to do graduate work he was erratic and unreliable. He improved in regard to industry and responsibility very much during his years here, and I think that he may well be thoroughly responsible now. I understand that people at Johns Hopkins are well pleased with the way in which he has been teaching freshman

  Chemistry. He has not carried on much research there, probably because his teaching has taken up most of his time.

  So far as personality, intelligence and ability are concerned, I think that Harker is one of the best men we have had.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP/bcs

• Letter from Madeline M. Mitchell to LP RE: is sorry to hear that LP cannot review two volumes of the Fine Structure of Matter by Douglas Clark and asks that LP return the books to the office. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #10, Folder #10.5]
• Letter from Secretary to LP to Miss Grace Kidney RE: She informs Kidney that there has been a discrepancy in shipping instructions. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255, Folder #255.5]

• Letter from Otto Laporte to LP RE: Informing LP that Professor Tate has agreed to the plan of including the manuscripts in the December 1st issue of the Physical Review. He hopes that LP still plans to participate in this celebration of Professor Sommerfeld's birthday. [LP's reply: August 15, 1938] [Filed under: Sommerfeld, Albert: Reprints, Correspondence, Box #366, Folder #366.1]

• Letter from LP to Mr. N. C. Walker RE: LP writes that the knowledge of German is required for a Bachelor's degree and French is sometimes also studied. [Walker's note: August 10, 1938] [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443, Folder #443.6]
• Letter from LP to Professor Henry Gilman RE: Thanks Gilman for requesting Wiley to send him a royalty check. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, Box #136, Folder #136.11]
• Letter from LP to Professor Otto Laporte RE: LP plans and looks forward to contribute an article, in honor of Professor Sommerfeld to the Physical Review. [Laporte's letter: August 14, 1938, Laporte's reply: September 3, 1938] [Filed under: Sommerfeld, Albert: Reprints, Correspondence, Box #366, Folder #366.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor Tate. [LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1938a.2]

  August 15, 1938

  Professor John T. Tate

  Editor, Physical Review

  University of Minnesota

  Minneapolis, Minnesota

  Dear Professor Tate:

  I have been invited to contribute a paper to an issue of the Annalen de Physik which is planned to be a Festband in honor of the seventieth birthday of Professor A. Sommerfeld and I have been planning to accept this invitation. Now I have just received a letter from Professor LaBorte in which he suggests that Sommerfeld's American pupils, and some others, contribute papers to the December 1st issue of the Physical Review, this issue to be considered as an informal congratulatory number.

  I feel that it would be incongruous for a Festband for Sommerfeld to appear without a contribution from such a distinguished pupil of his as Pauli, and I accordingly favor the idea, of using the Physical Review for publication of congratulatory papers for Professor Sommerfeld. If it is the decision of you and your editorial Board to permit this, I shall plan to submit a paper to you. On the other hand, my feeling for Professor Sommerfeld is such that I want to be sure to contribute to the celebration of his birthday, and if the congratulatory number of the Physical Review is not to appear, I shall send a paper to the Annalen de Physik. Since the Annalen has requested that contributions arrive by about September 1st, it is desirable that I know as soon as possible what your decision will be and I am accordingly writing directly to you.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP/bcs

• Note from A. F. Wells to LP RE: Sends LP a copy a proof of his recent paper on the structure of PdCl2. Also, asks that he be put on the mailing list at the Laboratory. [LP's reply:August 26, 1938] [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443, Folder #443.6]

• Letter from Edgar J. Fisher to LP RE: Asking LP if Mr. Otto Schmauss would have permission to reach Pasadena on September 30th instead of September 26th when classes begin. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]
• Letter from Hans T. Clarke to LP RE: Clarke writes to introduce Dr. Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat who will be visiting the West Coast this fall. Although he has not worked with him personally, Clarke knows him to be a very skillful organic biochemist. Asks LP to give him any advice towards finding a job opportunity. [LP's reply: September 1, 1938] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #66, Folder #66.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Walter Soller RE: informs Soller that Dr. T. F. Anderson seems well-fitted for the opening about which he wrote a few weeks ago. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]

• AHP writes cheque to: Betty Vanderlaan amount $15 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Frank G. Miller amount $2.44 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Nellie Durby amount $1.65 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Rose Vanderlaan amount $25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from John T. Tate to LP RE: Informing LP that hey have decided to publish a group of congratulatory papers for Professor Sommerfeld in the December first issue. [LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1938a.2]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP recommends that the Note on the "Calculation of Entropy from Measurements of Heat Capacity" by John Beek, Jr. not be accepted for publication. [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. John Van N. Dorr 2nd RE: Regrets to say that there is no suitable position for Dr. Ernst Fried. Suggests that she write the Institute of International Education about this matter. [Dorr's letter: August 10, 1938] [Filed under: F: Correspondence, Box #128, Folder #128.4]
• Research notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Chromatographic experiments

• Research notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Chromatographic experiments

• Letter from LP to Madeline M. Mitchell RE: LP is returning Volumes II and III of the Fine Structure of Matter by book-post today. [Reply to Mitchell's letter September 12, 1938] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #10, Folder #10.5]

• Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Lamb plans to reelect LP for another five-year term as an Associate Editor of the Journal as his current term will expire on December 31, 1938. [LP's reply to Lamb August 24, 1938] [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.002, Folder #2.3]

• Research notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Chromatographic experiments

• AHP writes cheque to: Theo. Ackerschott amount $65 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from Alfred L. Sklar to LP RE: explaining to LP that he would like very much to hear the criticisms he has for the paper on the color of organic molecules. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Edgar J. Fisher RE: LP explains that Dr. Otto Schmauss may delay his arrival to Pasadena until September 30th. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]
• Letter from W. A. Noyes to Clark, Fieser, Lind and Pauling RE: Noyes encloses a copy of one page of the Ring Catalog, and asks for any criticisms they wish to make. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279, Folder #279.4]
• Note from Anderson Pace to LP RE: Informs LP of her new marriage life and of her plans to visit Jack Sherman, because the death of his brother has hit him quite hard. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #312, Folder #312.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $29.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]

• LP writes cheque to: Kenneth Gordon amount $250 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP accepts Lamb's plan to nominate him for another five-year term as Associate Editor. [Lamb's letter to LP August 20, 1938] [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.002, Folder #2.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $21.34 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Wesley Unfried amount $1.90 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from C. S. Lu to Academic Registrar's Office, CIT RE: Asks for information regarding CIT's Department of Chemistry (Physical Chemistry) in the year 1938-39. Also, information about the steps to apply for admissions into the Institute for research work. [Filed under: L: Individual Correspondence, Box #218, Folder #218.7]
• Letter from Paul L. K. Gross, Headmaster, The Norton School to AHP RE: Requesting AHP suggest names of boys who might possibly attend Norton and inviting her to send her own sons there as well. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.036, Folder #36.1]
• Note from E. Rabinowitch to LP RE: Apologizes for bothering LP again, but again asks for advice regarding job opportunities in America. His passport will expire on October 1st and thus is hoping to any sort of position before then. [LP's response: August 29, 1938] [Filed under: R: Individual Correspondence, Box #326, Folder #326.1]
• Telegram from Dr. Walter Soller to LP RE: asking LP to have Dr. Anderson fill out application blanks and air mail them to him. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]

• AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company amount $9.16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Inviting LP while in Milwaukee for the A. C. S. meeting. [LP's reply to Lamb August 20, 1938] [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from LP to Anderson Pace RE: LP thanks Pace for the letter and is happy to hear that she will be going to visit Jack Sherman soon. LP mentions that Hamp and Springall have gone back to England, they did not receive appointments at Oxford. [Filed under: LP Correspondence, Box #312, Folder #312.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. A. F. Wells. [Well's letter to LP RE: August 15, 1938] [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443, Folder #443.6]

  August 26, 1938

  Dr. A. F. Wells

  Crystallographic Laboratory

  University of Cambridge

  Free School Lane

  Cambridge, England

  Dear Dr. Wells:

  I thank you for sending as proof of your interesting paper on PdCl2. I am glad to include mention of this work in my book on the "Nature of the Chemical Bond" which is just being published.

  Reprints of some of our recent papers are being sent to you separately and your name is being added to our mailing list.

  Your several recent crystal structure investigations have interested all of us very much.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP/bcs

• Letter from LP to Professor Noyes RE: LP was glad to see the copy of one page of the Ring Catalog and has no suggestions to make. LP will not be able to attend the Milwaukee meeting of the Society this year. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279, Folder #279.4]
• Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Preparation of 3-p-nitrophenylhydantoin and 3-p-nitrophenyl-5-methylhydantoin

• AHP writes cheque to: Nellie Durby amount $1.35 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from James B. Conant to LP RE: Informs LP that he will be revising his textbook of organic chemistry and asks some questions in reference to resonance. [LP's reply: September 2, 1938] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #66, Folder #66.15]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP submits for publication his paper on "The Crystal Structure of Ammonium Cadmium Chloride." [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. E. Rabinowitch RE: LP is sorry that he has been unsuccessful in finding a job in America and believes that there may be an opening at the University of Cincinnati. LP has written to Dr. Walter Soller of the University recommending him for the position. [Rabinowitch's letter: August 25, 1938] [Filed under: R: Individual Correspondence, Box #326, Folder #326.1]
• Letter from Lp to Dr. Walter Soller RE: LP writes because he has learned about a young man with even more training and qualifications than the two men he has already recommended. The man in Dr. E. Rabinowitch. [Filed under: S: Correspondence, Box #377, Folder #377.8]
• Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 35b RE: Water analysis

• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP will not be attending the Milwaukee meeting of the A. C. S. and therefore cannot accept Lamb's dinner invitation. [Lamb's letter to LP August 26, 1938] [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from LP to Mr. William R. Newton RE: LP informs Newton that they have decided to reorganize the instrument shop and is sorry to say that as of September 15th his position as instrument maker will be terminated. [Filed under: N: Correspondence, Box #287, Folder #287.5]
• Letter from Neva E. Reynolds, Assistant Secretary, National Research Council to LP RE: Enclosed check for $133.34 payable to D. P. Stevenson to cover the first installment of the grant made to Dr. Stevenson as a National Research Fellow. [Filed under LP Science: Box #14.027, Folder #27.4]
• Letter from Secretary to the Dean to C. S. Lu RE: Is sending under separate cover a catalogue in which to find most of the information requested on August 25, also is enclosing an application for admission to the Graduate School. [Filed under: L: Individual Correspondence, Box #218, Folder #218.7]
• Research notebooks of LP, RNB 18 RE: Chromatographic experiments

• LP writes cheque to: Charles A. Parsons amount $20.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Mira Loma Mutual Water Company amount $140.91 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #2]
• Letter from LP to Roscoe Dickinson RE: Recommends Dr. Howard S. Seifert for a fellowship next year. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #94, Folder #94.5]