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Letter from Linus Pauling to Lloyd Spencer. Page 1. December 4, 1944

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Letter from Frances Holdredge, Secretary to LP to Mrs. A.F. Noon RE: Requests the Navy Serial Number and present Address of Laurence Noon on behalf of LP. (Requested information written on bottom portion of the letter.) [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.11, file:(B: Correspondence 1945)]
Letter from LP to Dr. Paul Bartlett RE: Recommends that Swain suggest what fields interest him in his application to the National Research Fellowship. Mentions that he cannot outline alternate position possibilities so far in advance. [Letter from Bartlett to LP November 14, 1944] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #23.9, file:(Bartlett, Paul D., 1939, 1944, 1949, 1963)]
Letter of LP to Dr. Kenneth B. Turner, Records Section. RE: Informs him that his address is correct. Informs him that no published reports have been made under OEMcmr-153. [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work Materials re: Oxypolygelatin, 1941-1945, 1951-1952, 1972-1974: Box #13.004 Folder #4.2]
Memo from LP to Lloyd Spencer. [Memo from Spencer to LP November 22, 1944] [Filed under LP Science: Scientific War Work - Materials re: the Pauling Oxygen Meter, 1940-1947: Box #13.001 Folder #1.1]

December 4, 1944

To: Lloyd Spencer

From: Linus Pauling

Subject: OEMar-584 Patent Report

I agree with the statements in your communication of November 22, 1944 about the patent report for OEMsr-584.

It is my understanding that Dr. Arnold O. Beckman had an OSRD contract himself, under which developmental work on the oxygen meter was done. He did not work on a subcontract under OEMsr-58, and accordingly it is not necessary for us to make a patent report about inventions made by Dr. Beckman.

I judge that the patent report for OEMsr-584 would report no new invention except possibly that of the Flow Regulator on Page 42. Will you please discuss this with Mr. David Shoemaker, and decide whether or not this constitutes an invention, and should be reported.

Linus Pauling

LP:fh

cc to David Shoemaker

The Nature of the Chemical Bond (continued): interatomic distances in covalent crystals and complexes include tetrahedral covalent. Seminar by David Shoemaker. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box 1.013, Folder 13.5]