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• Article: “In Short”, [re: University of Paris honorary doctorate] Engineering and Science Monthly, December 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Article: “SRO! SRO!...”, Sacramento (California) Condensate, (A.C.S. bulletin) December 1948.
• Bill from Adhor Milk Farms for December 1948. $48.89 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.3]
• Card from Linus Pauling Jr and Anita to AHP and LP RE: Sends in their Christmas card a check for their 25th anniversary present for the dishwasher. Their dishwasher has been in operation for a few weeks. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Linus Carl Pauling, Jr. 1946-1956: Box #5.037, Folder 37.3]
• Letter (No date) from LP to Walter Murphy, Editor, Chemical and Engineering News RE: Replies that he approves of the editorial on the Dupont grants, mentioning that Caltech will be one of ten universities to receive the grants. [Letter from Murphy to LP December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]
• Letter from LP to Dr.H. F. Beeghly, Editor, The Crucible. RE: Thanks him for having his name put on the mailing list. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]

• Bill from Fashion Cleaners for Nov. 23 dry cleaning. $6.20 Note on side: Pd [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.3]
• Bill from Mira Loma Mutual Water Co for $6.71. Note on side: Pd [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.3]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Acknowledges receipt of his letter. Two Copies. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Hoylande Young, Chairman, Women's Service Committee, to LP. RE: Informs him of the current members of the committee. Suggests who to return, who to drop, and who to add. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.10]
• Letter from J. T. Thurston, Chairman, Program Committee, Western Connecticut Section, to Beatrice Wulf. RE: Acknowledges her letter. Informs her that they wish to hear him on March 15th. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Letter from L. W. Jones, Dean of Admissions to Mr. A. N. Hashin, Director, Egyptian Education Bureau RE: Acknowledges letter of November 24, is forwarding letter to the Director of the Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry. [Letter from Hashin to Director of Admissions November 24, 1948] [Letter from LP to Ahmed January 4, 1949] [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box 1.017, Folder 17.3]
• Letter from Paul D. Barlett, to Henry Allen Moe, Guggenheim Foundation. RE: Informs him that he is withdrawing his application for a Fellowship. Explains why. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.3]

• Bill from Arthur McKinney for Sanding Floors $40.00 Note on side: Pd [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.3]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. Abraham White, University of California at Los Angles. RE: Informs him that he has been appointed to the Award Committee for the Eli Lilly and Company Award in Biological Chemistry. Asks if he can accept. Informs him that the appointment is confidential. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.010 Folder #10.3]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. David E. Green, The Enzyme Institute. RE: Informs him that he has been nominated to the Award Committee for the Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award in Enzyme Chemistry. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.9]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. Paul D. V. Manning, International Minerals & Chemical Corp.. RE: Informs him that nominations are now being made for the Award in the Chemistry of Milk. Informs him that he had been appointed to the Award Committee. Informs him that his participation is confidential. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.6]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. Walter K. Bonner. RE: Informs him that he has been appointed to the Award Committee for the Garvan Medal. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1948-1951: Box #14.010 Folder #10.1]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Milton M. Miller, University Park. RE: Informs him that nominations are now being made for the Award in the Chemistry of Milk. Informs him that he had been appointed to the Award Committee. Informs him that his participation is confidential. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.6]
• Letter from LP to AHP. [Filed under LP Safe: Box #1.018, Folder #18.17]

  Thursday noon

  December 2, 1948

  Dearest love:

  I was glad to find a letter form you when I reached Washington yesterday. IT was written Saturday, and was, I think, your second - you mention sending an earlier one here instead of to London, but it has not arrived. Your Sunday letter also came yesterday, at night. I'm sorry that your foot is still swollen. You must take care.

  The flight from Paris to New York was uneventful. We left an emergency field near Paris at 6 PM, in a DC4 (without pressure cabin) - this was a special flight, mainly for Queen Elizabeth passengers who couldn't wait. We stopped in Shannon[?] for an hour, and had dinner, but not so good one as before. We flew the Atlantic mainly at 8000 feet, but went higher over an ice storm - so high that just the exertion of wrapping my blankets around me made me puff for a minute or two. We stayed at Gander for an hour, and reached New York at 9. Henry and Warren Weaver and Miss Kingdon were all out of town, so I went to see Wickman of the Commonwealth Fund. He took me to lunch a the University Club, and then I took the 330 train for Washington. On

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  reaching the Hay-Adams I took a bath, read a while, and went to sleep. This morning I spent at the ACS building, with Miss Benner, trying by telephone to straighten out a mess I have made of my March trip - I had agreed to speak before both the Delaware and the Southern Jersey sections, and they have both scheduled the talks - but I allowed only one day, because both men are in Wilmington, and I thought (not having paid attention to the names of the sections) that the two were the same!

  I think my last letter to you was written Thursday - I stopped writing then, thinking, because no letter arrived from you, that air-mail over the ocean must be so slow as to suggest waiting 'till now to write again. Friday night I had dinner with the Bauers. They send their regards. Saturday I went to the Louvre. The Sorbonne ceremony, at 3 PM, was very impressive. Tiselins was given a degree, but was not there. Sir jack Drummond was there, and an old Swiss chemist, Bruner. Also a surgeon from Mexico, Chavez, and a doctor from Holland, Gorter, who is confined to his wheel chair. There was on other USAn, Professor John W. Clark, an economist form Columbia. He also was on of the 50 35 at Chicago in 1941. The dinner given by Sarrailh was very fancy - pate de fois gras,

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  truffles, and so on.

  On Sunday I went out to have tea with Haissanskis. A nice Austrian was there, Lederer, a friend of Laszl's. I was so tired from Saturday that I didn't waken until 1 ³⁰ , and after tea I had dinner in the hotel and went to bed. On Monday I went to the Musse de l'Art Moderne and to the Salon del'Ecole Francaise, and then at 3 PM with Manguin to the Academie des Sciences, where I saw Julie, Joliot, deBrogle, and many others. Then at 5 I went to the instititute de Chimie pysique + gave a seminar talk, on Dicky's new work on specific absorbents, Kirkwoods apparatus, the oxygen meter, and sickle-cell hemoglobin. Then I dined with the Clarks [?] in the hotel*. On Tuesday I went shopping, packed, and left the hotel at 2 PM for the airport.

  The last few days in Paris were vry uncomfortable ones. It was below freezing all day, with thick frost on the ground, and I had trouble getting my feet warm. The

  *Mrs Clark said that she + "John" had been trying to decide who I was. They decided I was a continental author- an author because I looked like one, and Continental because of the practiced way that I ate snails.

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  fog-filled air was also full of coal smoke, which irritated my throat, causing me to cough a great deal- as did everyone else.

  I had a wonderful experience Tuesday morning. As I walked along a llittle street on the Rive gauche I came upon a scene like an overdone movie set- with pedlors calling their wares, purchasing housewives bargaining with dealers before a backset of vegetables, fish, animal carcasses, yard-long stick-like loaves of bread, a man climbing up the outside of a tall building by way of a big rope with spaced knots, a horse drawing a cart with two 6-foot wheels, a man in a fire-wood cart loading up a basket on the back of another man, a litle girl putting down on the sidewalk a carrier of babies' bottles of milk, an old artist walking by via his smock and beret and carrying his canvas and work box, a woman wearing a new cane bottom sits an old chair.

  It is 2 PM now. My ACS work starts tomorrow- I think I'll look up Louis Wright this afternoon.

  Love from Paddy

• Letter from Martha D. Letts, Secretary to W. H. Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Company to Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP RE: Says that Freeman will be in Southern California on the 16th and 17th of December, and hopes LP will be available at that time. Asks if he is not, that she should let them know as soon as possible so she can advise Freeman. [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.6]
• Letter from R. H. Sawyer, to LP. RE: Replies to his letter. Informs him of his opinion that he does not condone public use of his name while President of ACS. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from W. A. Mosher, Head, Department of Chemistry, University of Delaware, to LP. RE: Informs him that he will not be eligible for reappointment. Suggests Hilty to take his place. Congratulates him on being elected President. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.6]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Has learned that LP has received the Medal of Merit for his outstanding contributions to the war. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Colin B. Cowen to LP RE: Acknowledges receipt of his letter and looks forward to seeing him next year. [Filed under: LP Speeches, 1948s.29]
• Letter from LP to AHP. [Filed under LP Safe: Box #1.018, Folder #18.18]

  Friday evening

  3 Dec 1948 [this line written later by LP]

  Dear love:

  I hope that you are getting along well, and that your ankle doesn't bother you too much. I hope — but I suppose it is too much to expect — that you have been sensible about letting things go, letting other people do a little work, and resting yourself properly.

  No more letters have arrived — I suppose that if writing a letter to me required you to limp around on your sore ankle and take the chance of injuring it further I'd be getting two a day.

  I've just read Philip Hamburger's wonderful article "Winds Off the Pampas" in the New Yorker. He is a master at communicating the essence of his impressions.

  I enjoyed visiting Louis ["B. Wright" added later by LP] at the Folger yesterday afternoon. I also went to the exhibit room of the National Archives, and then to a movie (punk) [?], then to dinner alone at Bonat's [?], and then to bed. I worked hard all morning and afternoon today with Emery appointing my committees, and had lunch with Louie at the Cosmos, where I talked also with Van Bush + Richards and with Workman, the man we didn't stay with in Albuquerque.

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  This evening, early, I went to a newsreel, had a light supper in a drugstore, and came to my room, where I read through all tomorrow's agenda, took a bath, and the [sic] started on the New Yorker. Now I'll go to sleep. Three nights after tonight before I see you again, little love.

  Be a good girl, sweetheart, and do what you know you should do. Try to be sensible and patient, and to tell other people, slowly and carefully, what you want done.

  Love from

  Your own

  Paddy.

  P.S. Louie has arranged to have amateur presentations of Shakespeare's plays in the Folger Shakespearean theater — and without segregation.

• Letter from LP to AHP. [Filed under LP Safe: Box #1.018, Folder #18.19]

  Sunday 1PM

  Dearest love:

  Our meetings are over - before noon. Not very interesting. I went to bed early last night, and I've been reading the papers now. I think I'll have lunch and go to the Corcoran before catching the train. I just haven't felt like calling Reuben or Sterling or anyone - too lonesome to visit them without you.

  Today is a warmer day - I shan't need my coat when I [on back] go to the Gallery.

  I hope that you are all getting along well - especially you and your foot.

  The Board was not enthusiastic about my visiting Bragg as a physicist, and prefer a chemist. When I get home I'll write at once to Tiselius [?]. You might be thinking about a second choice.

  Much love from

  Paddy

• Letter from Linus Pauling Jr to AHP RE: Says he would have liked to see LP when he stopped in Boston. Says it's too bad the Taits are divorced. Tells her that they expect a grandchild for her in early June. He seems a bit nervous about the responsibility. Discusses the dishwashers. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Linus Carl Pauling, Jr. 1946-1956: Box #5.037, Folder 37.3]

  December 5, 1948

  Dear Mom,

  It's too bad I didn't know Pop was going to stop in Boston. I would have tried to get to the plane to see him.

  It is too bad if the Taits are divorced. We have heard nothing, although we got a letter from Alan a short time ago.

  Here's some news that ought to please you early in June we expect a grandchild for you, if everything goes well, which it has so far. We feel it's high time things got started since we're getting no younger. Responsibility stares me in the face like a big goblin. But I hope I can rise to the occasion. The problem at present is morning.

  We're trying a Hotpoint dishwasher on our heater at 150, so it may be alright at any rate let us know what you think.

  Our love to you and the family.

  Linus

• Letter from Prof. J. Heyrovsky, Charles University, Prague, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on his honorary degree from the Sorbonne. Regrets he has had to cancel his lecture tour to the U.S. as the U.S. consulate in Prague has refused to give him and his family visas. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #156.21, file:(Heyrovsky, J.)]
• Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Elects”, Portland Oregonian, December 5, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Picks 1950 Slate of Officers”, Washington, (D.C.) Star, December 5, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemists Elect Dr. E.H. Volwiler”, Seattle Times, December 5, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Dr. E. H. Volwiler Elected President of Chemists”, Publication Unknown, December 5. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]

• Letter (in German) from Prof. Dr. W. Klemm to LP RE: Comments on LP's article in the September edition of JACS. Requests LP send him a copy of “The Nature of the Chemical Bond” as well as reprints dealing with magnetic chemistry, as much of their literature was lost or destroyed during the war. (Note above text: Ans'd) [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #200.13, file:(K: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from Dr. R. Houwink to LP RE: Reminds him of the letter sent on October 21 and asks LP to send an answer concerning whether or not he supports the committee. [Letters from Houwink to LP October 21, 1948, from LP to Houwink December 15, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #165.13, file:(H: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from Ernest H. Volwiler, Abbot Laboratories, to LP. RE: Resigns from the Committee on Publications and the Committee on Patents and Related Legislation. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.17]
• Letter from Martha D. Letts, Secretary to W. H. Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Company to LP RE: Informs him that they have received Chapters II and III of Noyes' Physical Chemistry manuscript and they are sending them on so he can go over them before he next talks with Freeman. (Notes on top in pencil: “Far too condensed. Arguments not straight-forward enough; too obscure. Examples needed.”) [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.6]
• Letter from William N. Lacey, Acting Chairman, Contracts Committee to Pres. L. A. DuBridge, C. I. T., cc: LP RE: Proposed contract for investigation of the molecular structures of certain compounds of boron between C. I. T. And the Office of Naval Research. [Filed under LP Science: Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1963: Box #14.031 Folder #31.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Elects Head”, Louisville (Kentucky) Times, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Elects”, Omaha (Nebraska) Evening World-Herald, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Elects”, Omaha (Nebraska) Morning World-Herald, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Elects”, Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Sun Telegram, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Head”, San Francisco Chronicle, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemical Society Names Chicagoan President-elect”, Houston (Texas) Post, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemists Elect Head for 1950", Baltimore (Maryland) Morning Sun, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Dr. E.H. Volwiler Elected Chemical Society President”, Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Heads Chemists”, Chicago Sun-Times, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Illinois Man Named by Chemical Society”, Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Volwiler Chosen to Head Chemical Society in ‘50", Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Volwiler to Head Chemical Society”, Houston (Texas) Post, December 6, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Report on the Present Situation of the Gmelin Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Related Subjects by Dimitri R. Stein, US Representative, Gmelin Institute. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.3]
• Writes cheque to “Foster Campbell Gardener up to Dec 6" $21.50 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to C. B. van Niel, Jacques Loeb Laboratory. RE: Informs him that he has been appointed to the Award Committee for the Paul-Lewis Laboratories in Enzyme Chemistry. Informs him that the committee is confidential. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.9]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Mary L. Kilpatrick. RE: Informs him that he has been appointed to the Award Committee for the Garvan Medal. Informs him that it is a confidential committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1948-1951: Box #14.010 Folder #10.1]
• Letter from C. W. Rivise, Caesar & Rivise, to LP. RE: Congratulates him for his accession to the presidency of the ACS for 1949. Sends a reprint of an article on chemical patents. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Letter from Harold C. Urey, University of Chicago, to LP. RE: Informs him of a situation in which a family could use financial assistance. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Chemist Explains New Disease Cure Theory”, Indianapolis (Indiana) Star [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings, 1948n.40]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Named President-Elect of Chemical Society”, New York Times [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings, 1948n.39]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Named President-Elect of the Chemical Society”, New York Times, December 7, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Volwiler Chosen Chemical Society 1950 President”, Chicago Journal of Commerce, December 7, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]

• Letter from Alden H.Emery, Executive Secretary, to Board of Directors. RE: Attaches a draft of the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors on December 4 and 5th. Would appreciate corrections. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Dimitri R. Stein, North Dakota Agricultural College. RE: Thanks him for his letter. Informs him that he has already written the Rockefeller Foundation in regards to the Gmelin Institute. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.3]

• Credit Order Correction Slip no. 397 from Union Oil Company of California. $8.70 due to unauthorized delivery - credit card expired 9/30/48. Note: All Paid DDS 12/9/48 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Finance: Box 4.059, #59.2]
• Credit Order Correction Slip no. 697 from Union Oil Company of California. $3.04 due to unauthorized delivery - credit card expired 9/30/48. Note: Pd 12/9/48 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Finance: Box 4.059, #59.2]
• Letter from Ellen P. Davidson, Executive Director, National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, to LP. Asks LP to talk informally on any subject, possibly social health, at the Conference. Will call later in the week. LP Peace: Box 4.013, Folder 13.4
• Letter from LP to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Thanks him for his letter. Was surprised by the award. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Ernest H. Volwiler, Abbott Laboratories. RE: Informs him that he has appointed new members in his place in the Patent Committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.17]
• Letter from LP to Irving Gray, Major, Office of the Surgeon General, RE: Informs him that he has just returned from a trip abroad, and will write again when he has seen if their will be lab space. [Letters from Gray to LP November 29, 1948, from LP to Waugh December 9, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.12, file:(G: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Prof. David Waugh, MIT, RE: Requests Waugh send his comments on Irving Gray, who has just applied to work for a year to six months in the Caltech Labs. [Letters from LP to Gray December 9, 1948, from Waugh to LP December 20, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.12, file:(G: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Prof. N. V. Sidgwick, Lincoln College, Oxford University, cc: A. Townsend, RE: Regrets that Sidgwick is unable to come to Caltech sooner. Explains the complications during his past trip to Europe which were responsible for him being unable to visit Sidgwick. [Letter from N. V. Sidgwick to LP November 30, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #364.1]
• Writes cheque to “Don Sharp. Union Oil Co. Gas” $11.74 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Bill from Southern Counties Gas Company of California for $18.40 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Finance: Box 4.059, #59.2]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Informs him that Volwiler has suggested that his name be removed from Patents Committee. Suggests he keep this in mind when selecting personnel. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.17]
• Letter from J. M. McIlvain, to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Returns the Director's ballot. Informs him why he doesn't agree with deleting the minutes from a certain period. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Arne Tiselius, University of Upsala, cc: A. Hemery, RE: Writes on behalf of the American Chemical Society to invite Tiselius to give a lecture at the 115th National Meeting of the Society on March 27. Offers to pay Tiselius' airfare round trip from Sweden to San Francisco, and his living expenses while in San Francisco, but not for the travel of Mrs. Tiselius. [Letter from LP to Arne Tiselius December 10, 1948, note from Arne Tiselius to LP January 1, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #407.5]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Arne Tiselius, University of Upsala, cc: Prof. Beadle, A. Townsend, RE: Invites Tiselius to come to Caltech to present two seminar talks. States that Caltech will pay for $200 traveling costs for Mr. and Mrs Tiselius, and any living expenses incurred while visiting Caltech. [Letter from LP to Arne Tiselius December 10, 1948, note from Arne Tiselius to LP January 1, 1949] [LP Correspondence: #407.5]
• Letter from LP to Ricardo Carvalho Ferreira. [Letter from Ferreira to LP November 21, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #119.7, file:(Ferreira, Ricardo)]

  December 10, 1948

  Mr. Ricardo Carválho Ferreira

  Rua Augusta 550

  Sao Paulo

  Brazil

  Dear Mr. Ferreira

  I have been interested to see your letter of November 21, and the statements that you make about an explanation of the acid strengths of the hydrogen halides.

  It is true, of course, that hydrogen-bonded complexes with water are formed by these molecules, and that the stability of these complexes plays an important part in helping to determine the degree of ionization of the hydrogen halides. I do not think that a single structural factor, such as the one you discussed, can be given alone as the explanation of the change in acid strength. A complete explanation would require that all of the structural factors that influence the energy of the undissociated molecule in solution and of the ions in solution would have to be taken into consideration.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from David Sturgis to LP RE: Informs LP that he is not a left communist but a middle universalist. Encloses an explanatory article and requests to meet with LP. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.16, file:(C: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from Reva Much, Secretary, Committee to Welcome the Dean of Canterbury, to LP RE: Requests LP continue working with the committee for the current time. [Letter from LP to Mucha December 15, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.16, file:(C: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Minutes of Meeting of Scientists' Committee on Loyalty Problems Minutes of meeting. LP Peace: Box 4.007, Folder 7.1
• Newspaper Clipping: “Atom Energy May Supply L.A. Water”, Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.31]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Atomic Energy May Supply City's Water”, Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.31]
• Statement regarding Dr. E. Bright Wilson, Jr., by LP. RE: Thinks he should have the opportunity to write the book. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.3]
• Statement regarding Dr. George Feigen, by LP. RE: Finds his research plan to be excellent. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.3]
• Statement regarding Laszlo Zechmeister by LP. RE: Believes is to be included among the dozen leading organic chemists in the US. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.3]
• Statement regarding Professor Barlett by LP. RE: Suggests that they give him fellowship for a few months. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.3]

• Announcement from the Arts, Sciences and Professions Council. The Program of the Membership Conference at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. LP Peace: Box 4.013, Folder 13.4
• Note from M. Szwarc, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Manchester, to LP RE: Wishes LP a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Suspects that something has gone wrong with his application and asks LP to write to him. [Letters from Executive Secretary to Dr. M. Szwarc November 29, 1948, from LP to Dr. M. Szwarc January 12, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #373.1]

• Bill from Southern California Edison Company. $22.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.3]
• Letter from A. C. Elm, Chairman, By-Laws Committee, to Alden H. Emery, Executive Section. RE: Informs him that the Leigh Valley Section would like to change their headquarters from “East and South Bethlehem, Pa.” to “Bethlehem, Pa.” Explains the reasoning behind the request. Asks that he pass the request along to the proper committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.1]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Board of Directors. RE: Attaches a letter from McIlvain who takes exception to the proposal. Sends a new ballot for the matter. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Frances V. Benner, Special Assistant, to LP. RE: Requests to be informed if LP will have time to visit local sections when he is in Chicago in late May. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Dr. Pauling Back After Degree Gift”, Los Angeles Daily News, December 13, 1948 . [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.30]
• Note to LP from Rarl. [illegible] Selmoryz RE: [In German] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1948) 378.2]
• Report on the Security Procedures of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission by the Scientist's Committee on Loyalty Problems. Discusses common questions of scientist concerning the methods, organization, and results of the AEC's security procedures. LP Peace: Box 3.018, Folder 18.1
• Telegram from LP to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Approves of the first and second motions of December 13th letters. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]

• Bill from Prodis Rug & Carpet Co to LP for cleaning and demothing of 9 items, along with some other repair work. Total due $99.85. Note on side: Pd Feb 10, 1949 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.2]
• Chemistry 221a Nature of the Chemical Bond. Final Examination. 8a.m. to 11 a.m (three hours). [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box 1.014, Folder 14.4]
• Interoffice Memo from A. H Walter to LP RE: Confirming telephone conversation with Beatrice Wulf in which she was notified the subject proposal had been approved. [Filed under LP Science: Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1963: Box #14.031 Folder #31.1]
• Interoffice Memo from Alice Walker to Beatrice Wulf RE: LP's Office of Naval Research Proposal; memo attached. [Filed under LP Science: Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1963: Box #14.031 Folder #31.1]
• Letter from A. H. Walter to Office of Naval Research, cc: LP RE: Submitting six copies of proposal for boron research headed by LP and Verner Schomaker. [Filed under LP Science: Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1963: Box #14.031 Folder #31.1]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Congratulates him for receiving an Honorary Degree from the Sorbonne. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Dr. D.H. Killeffer to LP RE: Urgently requests that LP answer his letter of November 26th. [Letters from Killeffer to LP November 26, 1947, from Wulf to Killeffer December 17, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #71.2, file:(Climax Molybdenum Company, 1948-1949)]
• Letter from Dr. Sol Haberman, Secretary-General Western Hemisphere, International Society of Hematology, to LP RE: Informs LP that he has been elected to fellowship in the society. Sends an application questionnaire and requests $3.00 in membership dues. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #185.9, file:(I: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from Ricardo Carvellio Ferreira to LP RE: Informs him he is going to Recife, Brazil, where he will stay for a year before going to the U.S. Adds that he is writing an apology to Dr. Daudel concerning an erroneous supposition. [Letters from Ferreira to LP November 21, 1948, February 10, 1949; from LP to Ferreira December 10, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #119.7, file:(Ferreira, Ricardo)]
• Writes cheque to “Peter - Christmas, etc” $50.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Letter from LP to Dr. Edmond Young, Kinetics Chemicals, Inc.. RE: Pleased to tell him that the date for the Western Connecticut Section has been changed, so he can talk on March 15th. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J. T. Thurston. RE: Thanks him for his telegram. Apologizes for the trouble. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. R. Houwink RE: Apologizes for the delay in response due to an absence from Pasadena. Agrees to be a member of the committee for the improvement of the organization of international scientific and technical congresses. [Letter from Houwink to LP December 6, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #165.13, file:(H: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Reva Mucha, Secretary, Committee to Welcome the Dean of Canterbury, RE: Discusses the success of the meeting with the Dean of Canterbury. Brings up some complaints about reserve seating issues. Requests to be relieved of his duties as chair due to health reasons. [Letters from Mucha to LP December 11, 1948, December 20, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.16, file:(C: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Note from Dr. Paul Gilbert Nahin to LP RE: Discusses LP's appearance as chair of the Dean's talk last Thursday. Commends him on his anti-war stance in the face of potential U.S. conflict with the U.S.S.R. [Letter from LP to Nahin December 21, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #287.15, file:(N: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Telegram from J. T. Thurston, to LP. RE: Informs him that Western Connecticut Section would be pleased to have the talk on Thursday. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]

• Letter from Leslie Sutton, Magdalen College, Oxford, to LP RE: States one of his students, Mr. P. W. Allen, has compiled a list of the interatomic distances and molecular configurations. Inquires about information left by Schomaker and asks for confirmation of the research. [Letter from Leslie Sutton to LP December 18, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #370.8]
• Memorandum from Henry Allen Moe, Secretary, Guggenheim Foundation, to Committee of Selection. RE: Informs them of the first meeting in 1949. [Filed under LP Science: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1946-1952: Box #14.014 Folder #14.3]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Dr. Pauling Answers Red Query”, Pasadena (California) Independent, December 16, 1948. [Filed under LP Scrapbooks, 1946-1950: Box #6.005, Folder 5.31]
• Writes cheque to “Athenaeum. Dues, etc” $29.58 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]
• Writes cheque to “Hotel Fairmont SF. Deposit” $10.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.074, folder 74.1, item 2]
• Writes cheque to “Union Oil Co of Calif” $3.28 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. Carl F. Grahom, Rev. Joseph S. McGrath, Dr. John H. Nair, Dr. J. D. Porsche, Dr. R. S. Schreiber, Dr. S. S. Shaffer, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, Dr. W. J. Tapp, and Dr. E. Wertheim. RE: Informs them of their appointment to the Standing Committee on Local Sectional Activities. Informs them of their duties. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.11]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. F. E. Brown, Dr. N. L. Drake, Dr. G. E. Felton, Dr. Gustave Heinemann, Dr. R. E. Kirk, and Dr. W. George Kirks. RE: Informs them of their appointments to the Committee on Membership Affairs. Informs them of their duties. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.12]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. Henry S. Bent, Dr. Helen S. French, Rev. Albert F. McGuinn, and Dean W. G. Young. RE: Informs them that they have been appointed to the Standing Committee on Chemical Education. Informs them of their duties. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.15]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. L A. Goldblatt, Dr. W. I. Patnode, Dr. H. S. Rhinesmith, Dr. F. D. Rossini, and Dr. C. L. Thomas. RE: Informs them of their appointments to the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. Informs them of their duties. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.16]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Dr. D. H. Killeffer RE: Assures him that LP will send some material within a few days. [Letters from Killeffer to LP December 14, 1948, from LP to Killeffer December 20, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #71.2, file:(Climax Molybdenum Company, 1948-1949)]
• Letter from H. A. Spanagel, Captain, U.S.N., to LP RE: refers to recent conversation of LP with Captain Walker and Dr. Wheeler. Encloses a list of tests of all courses and descriptions of the Chemistry and related courses pursued by the Ordnance Explosive Engineering students at the Post graduate School. [Letter from Niemann to LP November 26, 1948] [Memo from LP to Bates January 12, 1949] [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box 1.017, Folder 17.4]
• Letter from J. T. Thurston, Chairman, Program Committee, Western Connecticut Section, to Dr. Nathan Weiner, Chairman, Program Committee, Metropolitan Long Island Group. RE: Informs him that it has been necessary to rearrange the March meeting to accommodate LP. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Thanks him for his letter. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Prof. G. K. Rollefson, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, RE: Praises the book, “Physical Chemistry,” by Rollefson and Ermon, and states his only issue with the book is the way the structure of ice is represented. [Filed under LP Correspondence: #340.13]
• Letter from LP to the Reverend Dr. Stephen Fritchman RE: Informs Fritchman that he will be unable to attend the meeting of the Committee to Welcome the Dean of Canterbury to Los Angeles. Requests that Fritchman communicate to him the bills presented at the meeting. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.16, file:(C: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from N.A. Parkinson, Asst. to the Editor, Chemical and Engineering News, to LP RE: Requests he write a review of “Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry” for publication. [Letter from LP to Parkinson December 22, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]
• Memo from LP to Dr. David Shoemaker, Caltech. [Memo from LP to Dr. David Shoemaker December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #363.3]

  Dr. David Shoemaker

  Linus Pauling

  Dec. 17, 1948

  Monthly reports under Carbide and Carbon Metals Fund

  I would like to ask you to take the responsibility for preparing a brief monthly report under the Carbide and Carbon Metals Fund. I suggest that you prepare a draft of this report by the twentieth of each month, show it to me in order to get approval, and have it typed and sent on to Dr. Felbeck by the first of the month.

  I think that these reports in general should be brief, amounting to about one page - essentially a summary of the specific activities carried on during the month. Then once every six months or possibly once a year a detailed and illuminating report could be prepared in place of the brief monthly report.

  L.P.

  P:W

• Minutes of the National Board of the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. Discussions include legislation for federal aid to education, social security, housing, National Science Foundation, Fine arts program, and a health program. Other general topics. LP Peace: Box 3.018, Folder 18.1

• Letter from Dr. E.J. Crane, Editor, Chemical Abstracts, to LP RE: Discusses shortening abstracts to reduce printing costs. Enclosing a copy of the letter to be sent to scientists emphasizing brevity. [Letter from LP to Crane December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #70, file:(Chemical Abstracts, 1948-1956)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Frederick D. Rossini, National Bureau of Standards. RE: Asks if he is willing to serve as chairman of the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. Asks for suggestions for the membership of the committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.16]
• Letter from Leslie Sutton, Magdalen College, Oxford, to LP RE: Encloses some sample sheets of the electron diffraction results, and states in is very similar to Maxwell's 1940 list. [Letters from Leslie Sutton to LP December 16, 1948, January 20, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #370.8]
• Offprint: “Report of the Special Committee on the Civil Liberties of Scientists to the Executive Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Science”, December 18, 1948. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academic Freedom — General, 1944-1979: Box #2.039, Folder 39.4]

• Background on Personnel: Study Organization for The Ford Foundation. [Filed under LP Science: Ford Foundation, 1949-1972: Box #14.012 Folder #12.1]
• Bill from Union Oil Company of California to LP. Total Due $6.40 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Finance: Box 4.059, #59.2]
• Copy of letter [in French] from Louis de Broglie, Institut de France, Academie des Sciences, to LP. Informs LP that the Academy of Science elected him to the Section of mineralogy to replace M. Jacques of Lapparent, deceased. Discusses the publication of LP's work. LP Safe: Drawer 1, Folder 1.032
• Institut de France, Académie des Sciences, Correspondence indicating election as a corresponding member, December 20, 1948. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: 1948h.9]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to D. E. Badertscher, S. L. Brams, Wayne W. Hilty, R. H. Lafferty, Jr.. RE: Informs them of their appointments to the Standing Committee on Professional Relations and Status. Informs them of their duties. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.6]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. R. T. Arnold, Dr. George Calingaert, Dr. Calvin S. Fuller, Dr. V. A. Kalichevsky, Dr. A. L. Marshall, and Dr. Arthur Rose. RE: Informs them of their appointment to the Committee on Publications. Outlines their duties. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.18]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Attaches copies of letters of notification being sent to personnel which he has chosen for the various Standing Committees. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Ralph W. Bost, L. E. Chifcorn, Harvey Diehl, Milton Harris, Gustov Egloff, W. O. Milligan, to M. M. Renfrew. RE: Informs them of their appointments to Standing Committee on National Meetings and Divisional Activities. Informs them of their duties. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.5]
• Letter from Charles Coryell to LP RE: Suggests that LP, Lauritsen, Yost, and Davidson work together to request research money and piles for atomic research for physics, chemistry and biology at the universities in Southern California. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #68.2, file:(Coryell, Charles D., 1928, 1936-1941, 1945, 1948-1950, 1954, 1956-1958, 1960-1963, 1968-1970)]
• Letter from David F. Waugh, Department of Biology, MIT, to LP RE: Sends his opinions regarding Irving Gray. Notes that he had been scheduled to begin a position at the University of Washington with Dr. Robert Williams, who has been upset by Gray's unexpected entry into the army and departure from his agreement. [Letters from LP to Waugh December 9, 1948, from LP to Gray December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.12, file:(G: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. D. H. Killeffer RE: Informs Killeffer that he has prepared a sketchy report on molybdenum compounds, which he encloses. [Letters from Kileffer to LP December 14, 1948, December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #71.2, file:(Climax Molybdenum Company, 1948-1949)]
• Letter from Reva Mucha, Secretary, Committee to Welcome the Dean of Canterbury, to LP RE: Sends him copies of the Articles of Incorporation and the By-Laws of the American Russian Institute. Asks him to consider becoming a member of the American Russian Institute. [Letters from LP to Mucha December 15, 1948, December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.16, file:(C: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Telegram from Walter Murphy, Editor, Chemical and Engineering News, to LP RE: Requests he rush the editorial and signature for the January edition of C & EN. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]

• Letter from H. F. Beeghly, The Crucible, to LP. RE: Encloses a copy of the December copy of The Crucible. Has placed him on the mailing list. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from John C. McGowan, Research Department, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd, to LP RE: Sends a reprint as well as a photo and diagram. Discusses attempts in his labs to make atomic models. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #255.15, file:(M: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Encloses his expense account. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Paul Gilbert Nahin RE: Thanks him for his letter and states he is glad to know that Nahin was at the meeting with the Dean of Canterbury. Mentions his obligations to both science and political activism. Invites Nahin to come and visit him at Caltech. [Notes from Nahin to LP December 15, 1948, December 28, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #287.15, file:(N: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. T. Simpson, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington RE: Says he noticed his paper on electronic states of organic molecules including dye-like materials in the Journal of Chemical Physics, supposes that since he failed to mention LP's paper “A Theory of the Color of Dyes” since he failed to mention it, says his calculations were similar to Simpson's but were merely summarized in 1939 and says that he doesn't know that he will ever get around to publishing the detailed calculations now. Mentions that he gave a talk on the calculations at a symposium in 1939 but most of the attendees were band spectroscopists rather than chemists. [Letter from Simpson to LP January 4, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1948) 378.2]
• Letter from LP to Walter Murphy, Editor, Chemical and Engineering News. [Letter from Murphy to LP December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]

  December 21, 1948

  Mr. Walter J. Murphy

  American Chemical Society

  1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W.

  Washington, D.C.

  Dear Mr. Murphy:

  I sent you yesterday my New Year's message to the members of the American Chemical Society. I thank you for the opportunity of sending this message to the members, and I am looking forward to seeing it in the New Year's edition of Chemical and Engineering News.

  In your letter you mentioned that you would like to have the editorial contain 600 to 800 words. My message contains 840 words. I have considered the possibility of cutting it down by 40 or 50 words, but on reading it through I have felt that every sentence is needed, and I am accordingly asking if it will not be possible for you to select a font of type that will permit it to be printed on a single page without losing its character as an editorial statement.

  I trust that the manuscript is delivered to you on December 22. If there is a delay in airmail service, it might arrive late.

  Sincerely yours,

  [Linus Pauling]

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Miller W. Swaney, Esso Laboratories, to LP. RE: Reminds him of his upcoming speech. Gives important information. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]

• Citation from the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. Notice of Hearing of Application for Appointment of Guardian. Must appear in court on January 17, 1949. Affidavit of Service of Citation was signed by Beatrice J Wulf. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Edward Crellin Pauling. 1930-1995, No Date: Box #5.048, Folder 48.2]
• Inter-office Memo from Jerry Donohue to LP RE: Proposed program for X-ray studies of amino acids and proteins [Filed under LP Science: United States Public Health Service: "X-ray Diffraction Investigations of the Structure of Protein Molecules", grant RG 1987, [Changed to H-2143 (Chemistry 150)] 1948-1958: Box 14.041 Folder #41.1]
• Inter-office Memo from Robert B. Corey to LP RE: Future of C. I. T. X-ray work on proteins (endorsement of Donohue's program) [Filed under LP Science: United States Public Health Service: "X-ray Diffraction Investigations of the Structure of Protein Molecules", grant RG 1987, [Changed to H-2143 (Chemistry 150)] 1948-1958: Box 14.041 Folder #41.1]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Attaches a draft of two tentative forms of the certificate of appreciation. Asks if he is willing to sign the certificates. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Informs him that he has been elected a member of the Executive Committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Archie J. Weith, Society of Chemical Industry, to LP. RE: Informs him of the time and place of the Perkin Medal presentation. Would like to know as soon as possible if he can attend. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.010 Folder #10.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. Albert Noyes, University of Rochester RE: Explains there are more detailed comments he would like to make regarding the chapters which were sent to him but believes they can wait until in person, makes general remarks about Chapters I and III and also gives specific examples, feels the chapters have more math than chemistry, mentions also a few words he feels were misused too often, and recognizes that Noyes wrote them while busy with other work. Gives a time when he will be driving up, and hopes he likes his New Year's message to the American Chemical Society. [Letter from Noyes to LP December 28, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.7]
• Letter from LP to N.A. Parkinson, Asst. to the Editor, C & EN RE: Replies that he will be unable to write the requested review. [Letter from Parkinson to LP December 17, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]
• Letter from M. W. Swaney, to LP. RE: Pleas disregard February 14th date in letter on route. Unaware of change during May absence. Looking forward to his appearance March 14th. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Wm. T. Cruse, Secretary, The John Wesley Hyatt Award, to LP. RE: Informs him that he has the right to be a member of the award committee. Gives information about the award. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.010 Folder #10.4]
• Staff-Committee Memorandum # 3. RE: Compensation: expense and insurance. [Filed under LP Science: Ford Foundation, 1949-1972: Box #14.012 Folder #12.1]
• Telegram from J.M. Crowe, C & EN to LP RE: Suggests changing the title of his editorial from “The Society in 1949" to “Our Job Ahead.” [Telegram from LP to Crowe December 23, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]
• Writes cheque to “Fashion Cleaners” $6.20 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Bill from Tuttle Bros' Nurseries for $28.19 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.3]
• Letter [in French] from Ch. Maugin, Faculté des Science, l'Université de Paris, to LP RE: Informs him that he has been unanimously elected as a correspondent to l'Académie des Sciences in Paris for his work in diverse scientific domains. Sends greetings from Madame Maugin to AHP. Requests as a post-script that LP send an updated notice of his research for the archives of the Académie. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #255.15, file:(M: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from G. K. Rollefson, Editor, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry to LP RE: Asks him to prepare the review on Quantum Theory, Theory of Molecular Structure and Valence for Volume one of the annual, to appear in 1950. Goes on to describe requirements and wishes of the committee. [Letter from LP to Rollefson, January 26, 1949] [LP Correspondence: Box #11.19, file:(Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 1947-1949, 1969, 1976)]
• Telegram from LP to J.M. Crowe, C & EN RE: Agrees to the change in title. [Telegram from Crowe to LP December 22, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]

• Bill from Herbert A Whipple, DDS for LP professional services rendered Nov. 16 1948 $4.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.059, folder 59.3]
• Bill from Myrtle Vencil for $38.26 [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Finance: Box 4.059, #59.2]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. Edward Wichers. National Bureau of Standards. RE: Informs him that he has been appointed as the Committee on Annual Report on Atomic Weights. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.7]
• Letter from Dr. J. Finley Wilson and others to LP. Asks LP to join in issuing a Call of a Legislative Assembly and Rally for Civil Rights to be held in Washington, D. C. On February 11th and 12th. Encloses the formal Call. LP Peace: Box 3.017, Folder 17.1
• Letter from JHR Lynam to LP RE: Apologizes for not having replied before. It was his impression the book had been sent to Crellin and sends it now.
• Letter from Sherman S. Shaffer, Southeastern Texas Section, to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Accepts the appointment to the Standing Committee on Local Sectional Activities. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.11]
• Note from Dr. Chia-Si Lu, National Amoy University, China, to LP RE: Discusses the increasing difficulty of the situation in China. Mentions that Dr. S.H. Yu will be making a trip to the U.S., where he plans to visit Caltech and MIT. [Notes from Lu to LP November 21, 1948, February 3, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #218.7, file:(Lu, Chia-Si)]
• Terminal Report for Crellin Pauling at Dragon School. Classics 1/15 An excellent Term's work. He has made extremely rapid progress in this subject / English 15/17 He has worked with enthusiasm and while his history is not strong, he has made definite progress in his written English. / Geography 16/17 Not very good / Mathematics 10/17 4th is form in Ned Morphew Competition. His knowledge increased at a great pace. / French 2/17 Good and keen / Art Enjoyed painting and produced some good work / Divinity Very good / Science Very good, shows great interest. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Edward Crellin Pauling. 1930-1995, No Date: Box #5.048, Folder 48.1]

• Indian Academy of Sciences, Letters indicating membership, December 26, 1948. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: 1948h.10]
• Manuscript Notes: “Bond Orbitals with p-d Hybridization in Electronegative Atoms” [Filed under LP Science: Manuscript Notes by Linus Pauling re: Chemical Bonds, 1944-1953: Box #3.005 Folder #5.11]
• Manuscript Notes: “The Non-Existence of Perleromates” [Filed under LP Science: Manuscript Notes by Linus Pauling re: Chemical Bonds, 1944-1953: Box #3.005 Folder #5.10]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. P. J. Elving, Dr. F. H. Hurley, and Dr. Philip W. West. RE: Informs them that they have been appointed to select the recipient of the Merck Graduate Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.3]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Informs him he must nominate someone as the Chairman of the Award Committee for the Garvan Medal. Requests a telegraph with his nominate. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Informs him that Dr. Osborne has been eliminated from the list due to health issues. Apologizes for the delay. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Chester M. Alter, Dean, Boston University Graduate School, to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Informs him that he shall be glad to serve on the Committee on Industrial Relation for 1949. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Winstein, Department of Chemistry, U. C. L. A. RE: Writes in his capacity as editor for W. H. Freeman and Company's Chemical Series to see how Winstein feels about collaborating on an advanced organic book for them, explains that he knows he is busy but hopes that he understands te contribution he could make by bringing modern ideas into the advanced organic field, and urges him to think it over and write him at a later time. [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.6]
• Letter from LP to Irving Gray, Major, Office of the Surgeon General, RE: Regrets that the lab at Caltech is currently too crowded to allow Gray to come and work for a period of six months to a year beginning January 1, 1949. [Letter from Waugh to LP December 20, 1948, telegram from Gray to LP December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.12, file:(G: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from LP to Reva Mucha, Secretary, Committee to Welcome the Dean of Canterbury RE: Thanks her for and returns the Articles of Incorporation and the By-Laws of the American Russian Institute. Responds that he cannot accept the invitation to membership because his ill health has forced him to curtail his political activities. [Letter from Mucha to LP December 20, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.16, file:(C: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from Nathan Weiner, Chairman, Program Committee, to LP. RE: Requests details for his upcoming address to his group. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Stephen H. Fritchman to LP. Thanks LP for note of 17th, informs that he approved $3000 to pay the salaries, rent, and telephone service for the American Russian Institute during the Dean's visit. LP Peace: Box 4.001, Folder 1.1
• Letter from W. N. Lacey to Committee on Graduate Study RE: discusses arrangements for changes in procedure for handling appointments of Graduate Assistants. Encloses copy of new letter to be used for awarding graduate appointments. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box 1.018, Folder 18.2]
• Letter from Walter Murphy, Editor, C & EN to LP RE: Encloses a copy of his editorial for January 10th on the Dupont Company's planned Grants-In-Aid program. [Letter from LP to Murphy, no date] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]
• Letter from Walter Murphy, Editor, C & EN to LP RE: Informs him that the editorial has arrived and they will be able to publish it in its entirety. [Letter from LP to Murphy December 21, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #70.3, file:(Chemical and Engineering News, 1947-1958, 1968-1969, 1975, 1979-1980, 1988)]
• Memo from LP to Dr. David P. Shoemaker, Caltech, cc: Dr. Ewing, RE: Makes suggestions on what should be contained in the report for Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation and how it should be presented. [Memo from LP to Dr. David P. Shoemaker December 17, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: #363.3]
• Telegram from Irving Gray, Major, MAC, to LP RE: Requests response to his inquiry concerning work at Caltech. [Letter from LP to Gray December 27, 1948, telegram from LP to Gray December 28, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.12, file:(G: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Writes cheque to “Dr. HA Whipple. Paddy” $4.0 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Letter from Dr. D. H. Killeffer to LP RE: Thanks him for the report and encloses a check to cover expenses. Requests LP review the completed monograph. [Letters from LP to Killeffer December 20, 1948, January 3, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box #71.2, file:(Climax Molybdenum Company, 1948-1949)]
• Letter from Dr. W. Albert Noyes, Jr., Department of Chemistry, The University of Rochester to LP RE: Thanks him for his letter over the errors in the chapters, says he is not sure he agrees with him entirely as to the order he desires for the book, and explains how he has always had considerable doubt that he had time to write this text especially as he has to finish it before taking over the duties of Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Says that since their ideas do not seem to agree on the character of the book, asks to be released from him contract. [Letters from LP to Noyes December 22, 1948, January 18, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: 439.7]
• Letter from Executive Secretary, to Dr. F. A Gunther, Citrus Experiment Station. RE: Informs him that LP and AHP will drive to Riverside on January 3rd. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Stephen H. Fritchman to LP. Asks LP to tell him, in a sentence, the greatest achievement or discovery in science in 1948, anywhere in the world and a word or two as to why it is significant. LP Peace: Box 4.001, Folder 1.1
• Note from Dr. Paul G. Nahin to LP RE: Thanks him for the invitation and responds that he will telephone the Friday before coming. Discusses the difficulty in reconciling the desire to speak out on progressive issues and the fear of losing one's position due to political affiliations. Asks LP to consider this question. [Letters from LP to Nahin December 21, 1948, January 3, 1949] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #287.15, file:(N: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Telegram from Alden H. Emery, to LP. RE: Informs him that Noller declines a the appointment to the Fritzsche Award Committee. Requests that he wire a substitute name. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Telegram from LP to Irving Gray, Major, Office of the Surgeon General, RE: “Sorry impossible to accommodate you. Letter on way.” (Note in top margin: “I signed your name to the letter + sent it off. - see attached carbon.”) [Telegram from Gray to LP December 27, 1948] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #140.12, file:(G: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Writes cheque to “American Civil Liberties Union” $10.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]
• Writes cheque to “Dr. Harvey. Crellie” $6.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]
• Writes cheque to “Dues to Southwest Museum” $5.00 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]
• Writes cheque to “Mira Loma H2O Co” $6.71 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]
• Writes cheque to “Roy Edwards. Laundry Oct 29-Nov 19" $20.08 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Letter from A. H. Winheim, to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Accepts the appointment to the Standing Committee on Local Sectional Activities. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.11]
• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE: Attaches a check for $374.65. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary. RE: Informs him of his nomination for the chairman of Garvan Award Committee. Informs him of his appointment to the Fritzsche Award Committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Archie J. Weith, Society of Chemical Industry. RE: Cannot accept his invitation to attend the dinner on January 7th for the presentation of the Perkin Medal. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1944-1949: Box #14.010 Folder #10.5]
• Letter from Prof. J. Heyrovsky to Dr. John Herman RE: Informs him that his lecture tour in the U.S. has been cancelled because he was unable to get a visa. Discusses matters concerning polarograph and spectrograph methods. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #156.21, file:(Heyrovsky, J.)]
• Letter from Robert Grant, Oliver & Boyd Ltd. to LP RE: Informs that a copy of A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry has been sent to LP at the request of the Editors and that an acknowledgment of receipt would be appreciated. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #300.10, File: (O: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Note from G.W. Mabbott, Senior Science Master, Charterhouse, to LP RE: Discusses LP's books and inquires into the possibility of having a British edition of “General Chemistry” published to help lower the prices for the students. Mentions that he worked with Sidgwick and Hume-Rothery while at Oxford. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #255.15, file:(M: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Telegram from LP to unknown. RE: Appoint R. C. Fuson for University of Illinois to the Fritzsche Award Committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society, Materials re: Awards and Committees, 1944-1949: Box #14.009 Folder #9.8]
• Writes cheque to “Jean Brown. Help” $5.15 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.073, folder 73.6]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to Dr. R. C. Fuson. RE: Informs him that he has been nominated to an Award Committee. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from C. Courty, Chair of Chemistry and Physics, University of Lyon, France to LP RE: States that he would have like to have met LP while he was in Europe. Discusses the situation of education and research in France and compares it with the U.S. Discusses “The Nature of the Chemical Bond” and asks if a French translation has been made. [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.16, file:(C: Correspondence, 1948)]
• Letter from C. H. Fisher, Philadelphia Section, to LP. RE: Informs him that they would like the title of the Edgar Fahs Smith Lecture by January 10th. Requests a photograph and abstract by February 8th. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1949: Box #14.004 Folder #4.2]
• Letter from Joseph S. McGrath, University of Portland, to LP. RE: Accepts the honor of being the next chairman of the Committee on Local Sectional Activities. Promises his best effort. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.11]
• Telegram from Beatrice Wulf, to Dr. F. A. Gunther. RE: Informs him that AHP will arrive on Monday. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]

• Letter from Alden H. Emery, Executive Secretary, to LP. RE; Sends New Year's greetings. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1943-1948: Box #14.004 Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Edward Mack, Jr., Ohio State University, to Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. RE: Thanks the committee for their service. Informs them of everything they have accomplished. [Filed under LP Science: American Chemical Society: Materials re: Committees and Awards, 1938-1950: Box #14.008 Folder #8.16]
• Payroll stub from California Institute of Technology (period ending Dec 31 ‘48) and Bank of America deposit slip for $712.53 [LP Biographical: Business and Financial 4.068, folder 68.2]