Letter from Linus Pauling to Frank Aydelotte. June 29, 1948. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• California Institute of Technology Comparative Proposed Funds Budget for the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948; and the California Institute of Technology Comparative Proposed Salary Details for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1948. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia, California Institute of Technology: Assorted Financial Materials: 1930-1950: Box #1.031, Folder 31.2]
• Letter from Dr. John Sheridan to LP RE: Replies that he is writing Lipscomb about the fellowship at Minnesota. [Letter from LP to Sheridan June 29, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #217.6, file:(Lipscomb, William)]
• Letter from Karl Paul Link, to Alden H. Emery, Secretary. RE: Suggests colleagues to take his place as appointed. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. S. J. Singer, Crellin Laboratory. [Letter from Singer to LP April 9, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 378.2]

  NAVY AIR MAIL

  Balliol College

  Oxford, England

  June 30, 1948

  Dr. S. J. Singer

  Crellin Laboratory

  California Institute of Technology

  Pasadena 4, California

  Dear Dr. Singer:

  I have just got worried about your manuscript. I haven't written to you because I have nothing much to say about the manuscript, but it occurred to me that you might want the drawings back, and so I am returning them with the manuscript herewith.

  I hope I haven't held the paper up.

  I shall look forward to learning about the progress that you have made on the Rothen problem when I get back home, September 19. One idea that has occurred to me is that instead of using metal slides it might be possible to use thin sheets of mica, perhaps treated with a uranium salt in order to make the protein stick. There is a paper by Polansky in a recent Nature, in which it is shown that layers of mica uniform to one half unit (10 Ǻ. Thickness) can be obtained by cleavage.

  Also, I thought that perhaps some results could be got by coating the positive layer of protein with metal at a small angle of inclination from one side. This ought to cover the one side of protein molecules, leaving the other side bare, and so perhaps the slides treated in this way would still absorb nearly half of the antibody.

  It will be a pleasure to talk with you about this work and other work that you might be interested to carry on.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:par

  encolsures

• Letter from LP to Professor J. L. Hoard, Chemistry Department, Cornell University RE: Sends him a letter of introduction for the young South African scholar, Dr. Alistair M. Stephen, and says he would be grateful if he could arrange for Stephen to see the department. [Note from Stephen to Roth June 30, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 378.2]
• Letter from Lord Halsbury, Research Laboratories, Decca Record Co. Ltd., to LP RE: States that they met at a tea party given by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. Discusses questions prompted by LP's letter to “Nature” of June 26. (Note in right margin: “Ans'd”) [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #165.13, file:(H: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from M. R. Phillips to LP RE: Thanks him on behalf of Harvey S. Mudd for the receipt of the reprint “Nature of Forces Between Large Molecules of Biological Interest.” State Mudd has been in Europe and Cyprus since April and will return in July. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #287.15, file:(N: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from Ralph B. Lloyd, Lloyd Corporation, Ltd., to LP RE: Thanks him for the reprint of “Nature of Forces Between Large Molecules of Biological Interest.” Comments on the paper. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #287.15, file:(N: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Manuscript, Typescript: The Electronic Structure of Excited States of Simple Molecules [Filed under LP Manuscripts, 1948a.5]
• Payroll stub from California Institute of Technology (period ending Jun 30 ‘48) for $720.86 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.068, folder 68.2]
• Royalty Statement Recapitulation showing a net royalty payable for $1729.29. Also Royalty Statement for text book General Chemistry, First edition for $3617.19 and Royalty statement for General Chemistry, Introductory Quantitative Analysis, and A Laboratory Study of Chemical Principles totaling $612.10 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.045, folder 45.1]
• Typescript and Manuscript Notes: The Electronic Structure of Excited States of Simple Molecules [Filed under LP Science: Calculations and Manuscripts by Linus Pauling re: Chemical Bonds, 1930-1949: Box #3.002 Folder #2.7]
• Writes cheque to “Am Mer Sci” $9.50 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]