Letter from Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. January 30, 1946. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Albert M. Soldate submits research paper to LP: A Redetermination of the Arsenic-Oxygen Distance in Arsenolite. (2 drafts) [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box 1.017, Folder 17.1]
• Letter from A. V. Grosse, to LP. RE: Informs him that a committee has been formed to organize the Beilstein and Gmelin Handbooks. Invites him to join the committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.3]
• Letter from Dr. Ray Q. Brewster, Chairman, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas (Lawrence), to LP RE: Requests he recommend a candidate for an instructorship position in inorganic and physical chemistry. Goes on to describe job conditions. [Letter from LP to Brewster February 25, 1946] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #163.1, file:(Hughes, Edward)]
• Letter from LP to AHP. [Filed under LP Safe: Box #1.017, Folder #17.40]

  [on stationery from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, on post-it note 1.31.46]

  Jan 31.

  Thursday, PM

  Dearest Sweetheart:

  I made the Boston train safely- as happens once on nearly every trip I make, someone else was occupying my space; the conductor put him out; he was in the wrong car. We are now in the Berkshires; there is about a food of snow on the trees & hills, & the little river is frozen over. The train is an hour late. We shall arrive at about 4.

  John Edsall is on the train- in the same car. I have had two intersting talks with him. He says that sometimes he is homesick for Pasadena- that this year with us was the best of his life. Ronald Ferry is back at Winthrop; all but one of the student houses are to be open to civilians next month. I learned that John has a very high opinion of Jack Kirkwood.

  Between trains I bought myself a very nice pair of black shoes. I left my old ones to be sent to Greece. Then, having about an hour left, I stopped at E.C Pauling's office (where I had stopped once before, finding him away), and learned that he died last winter. He bad two daughters, one in Boston and one, Mrs Donnelley, in Chicago. I telephoned Mrs Donnelley (who is listed as Mrs D. in the phone book). She spoke with an English or pseudo-English accent. She indicated that her father was one of the Hanoverian Paulings, and said that he had an uncle of two who had gone to California. She asked me to come out to house for a cup of tea, but I didn't have time to do so. Was Grandpa Pauling's father from Hanover?

  I have been talking with John about the great need for medical research in the West. Everyone seems to agree on this point. Did I tell you that Wickmen[?], when he was in Pasadena last week, asked me to stop in New York to see Heffron[?], the head of the medical division of the Commonwealth Foundation?

  We are still going through the little snow-covered wooded hills.

  Love to you, and Petie, and Linda, and Crellie,

  From Paddy.

• Letter from LP to Mr. Louis Harris RE: LP is glad to he was satisfied with the way the meeting sponsored by the Science and Education Division went on Monday night. [Harris' letter to LP: January 24, 1946] [Filed under: LP Speeches, 1946s.1]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, Jr., Macmillan Book Company, RE: Sends a mimeographed copy of the late Prof. Roscoe G. Dickinson's manuscript “Outline of Thermodynamics” which they would like to have published as a supplementary physical chemistry text. States that Dickinson's presentation of the material is clear and straightforward. [Letter from Bennett to LP March 26, 1946] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #255.13, file:(M: Correspondence, 1946)]
• Payroll stub from California Institute of Technology (period ending Jan 31 ‘46) and Bank of America deposit slip for $33.33 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.068, folder 68.2]
• Report #18: "Further Studies on LC-3," by George G. Wright, William H. Eberhardt, and Frank Lanni, cc: Dr. Harris M. Chadwell, OSRD; Dr. Warren C. Lothrop; Mr. George A. Richter, Eastman Kodak Co.; and CIT files. LP Safe: Drawer 3, Folder 3.013
• Report by Frederick D. Rossini, National Bureau of Standards, re: “Tables of Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Hydrocarbons, and Catalogs of Infrared and Ultraviolet Spectrograms, Prepared by the American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44 at the National Bureau of Standards.” [Letter from Rossini to LP April 15, 1946] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #283.4, file:(National Bureau of Standards)]