Letter from Linus Pauling to Lucile Jenkins. September 16, 1946. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Entry in Calendar: “Peter School” [Filed under LP's Daily Calendar of Events, 1946, 1958-1966, 1968-1970, 1973-1979: Box #5.012, Folder 12.1]
• Letter from Frank Aydelotte to LP RE: Agrees that a hotel or lodgings would be better than keeping a house. Expresses interest in the idea of a car, but notes that B.D. Meritt believes that it would be inadvisable with the current petrol shortages in England. [Letters from LP to Aydelotte September 7, 1946, December 4, 1946] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #6.21, file:(Aydelotte, Frank, 1940-1956) and copy in #299.8 (Oxford University, [re: Eastman professorship and residency in Oxford] 1946-1948)]
• Letter from LP to Lucile Jenkins [Pauling]. [Letter from Lucile Pauling to LP August 10, 1946] [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Frances Lucile Pauling, 1922-1992: Box #5.053, Folder #53.4]

  September 16, 1946

  Mrs. Lucile Jenkins

  Estacada, Oregon

  Dear Lucile:

  Thank you for sending me Granddad's watch. I had been hoping for a long time to get it from you, but now I have decided to wait a while, until the jewelers are less busy, before having it repaired.

  I am sorry to hear about Aunt Anna. I hope that she is not leading an unhappy life.

  The question that you asked about material for a popular talk about my work is a hard one. I am sending separately a reprint of the Harrison Howe lecture which I gave at Rochester a few months ago, which you might find useful. Most of the papers that I have published have been pretty technical. In a short while we shall have reprints of the Willard Gibbs address, which I shall also send on to you.

  I am sending under separate cover some wooden balls and rods to be used in making molecular models. You can look in "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" to find some simple molecules to illustrate. Chloroform, of course, is a good one — you take one of the black balls, attach to it three long rods and one shorter one, put a yellow ball on the shorter rod (for hydrogen) and three other balls, perhaps red, on the three longer rods, for the three chlorine atoms.

  Jeff and Sylvia were through here last week; we were glad to see them. We all went up to the Sierra Madre mountains, just north of our house, driving about thirty miles to get into the pines, at 6,000 feet elevation.

  We also spent a day at the beach with them.

  [Linus Pauling]

  sent 1 Harrison Howe reprint

  " - box of balls and rods

• Letter from LP to Prof. Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, JACS, RE: Asks Lamb whether or not he should consider publishing a series of papers on the structure of metals and intermetallic compounds in the JACS, even though the topic might be more suited to the Journal of Chemical Physics. [Letter from Lamb to LP September 23, 1946] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #191.1, file:(Journal of the American Chemical Society)]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Hun-Tsen Yu, National Northwest College of Agriculture in China RE: Thanks him for the beautiful parting gift, wishes he had been there when special ending of the war jobs were not keeping him so busy and they would have had a chance to talk about China and chemistry. [Note from Yu to LP September 12, 1946] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 462.6]
• Letter from LP, to Henry Allen Moe, Guggenheim Foundation. RE: Returns the file on Pitts. Informs him that he is out of the hospital and will visit him tomorrow. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.1]
• Letter from W. H. Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Company Publishing to LP RE: Asks LP when he is available to meet with before he leaves for the east September 24, and suggests lunch. Expects to be in Los Angeles the 22nd, though he is meeting with Gilluly of UCLA and Woodford of Pomona. Explains that he has been trying to reach Latimer to find out what has become of Seaborg's manuscript, but he has been unable to reach him. Gives LP two remarks from Rollefson when Freeman told him he was starting a new publishing house, which were that he wished they were publishing his book, and they were about to drop the Hildebrand text since it lacked descriptive matter. Says he is not surprised that Macmillan has run out of Latimer and Hildebrand's reference book, as they seem to be bringing out big new titles even though they cannot supply enough copies of those already on their list. [Letters from LP to Freeman September 13, 1946, September 18, 1946] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.4]
• Writes cheque to “SoCal ACS. Dues” $2.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.3]