Letter from Linus Pauling to Charles Hurd. October 9, 1951. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Bill from the Southern Counties Gas Company of California to LP for $3.79. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: (Assorted Bills, Receipts and Invoices, 1951-1962.), Box #4.060, Folder #60.1]
• Cable from LP to President T. W. J. Taylor, University College of the West Indies, RE: Says that he could probably come March 19, but not earlier. [Letter from LP to Taylor, October 5, 1951 and Cable from Taylor to LP, October 27, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Taylor, T. W.), #405.7]
• Check from AHP to Athenaeum for $17.05. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, September 1950-December 1952), Box #4.021, Folder #21.2]
• Check from AHP to Vroman’s Book Store for $30.02. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, September 1950-December 1952), Box #4.021, Folder #21.2]
• Flyer: The October Meeting of the San Diego County Medical Society. “Molecular Medicine,” by Dr. Linus Pauling. Manor Hotel. October 9, 1951, 6:30 P.M. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1951s.17]
• Itinerary: San Diego Medical Society [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001 Folder 1.9]
• Letter from George E. Burch, School of Medicine, Tulane University, to LP. [Letters from LP to Burch, October 5, 1951 and October 18, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Burch, George E.), #33.8]

  THE TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA

  NEW ORLEANS 12

  SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

  October ninth nineteen fifty-one

  Dear Linus:

  I have your letter of October 5. I shall arrange for one of our residents at the Hospital to see if it would be possible to employ your suggestions in the use of carbon monoxide in a group of patients, as well as sodium nitrite, in another, in the management of some of our sickle cell patients. I have thought about the suggestion which you made several months ago and really have not had the opportunity of following it through.

  We have not been sending any sickle cell blood recently, as we were not certain that you wished to have the shipments continued. If you do, we shall be very happy to arrange this as we have in the past.

  Vivian and I certainly enjoyed reading about your life and thought it was well done. Best regards.

  Yours sincerely,

  G. E. BURCH, M. D. 1:2

  Dr. Linus Pauling

  California Institute of Technology

  Pasadena 4, California

• Letter from Hans Ramberg, Department of Geology, University of Chicago, to LP, RE: Asks for clarification in the use of LP’s book, The Nature of Chemical Bonds, and how the electronegativity values can be used in geology. [Letter from LP to Ramberg, October 17, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1951), #340.16]
• Letter from Harold P. Klug, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, to LP, RE: Invites LP to attend and speak at the Ninth Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference on November 29th-30th. [Letter from LP to Klug, October 12, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Klug, Harold P.), #199.3]
• Letter from LP to A.H. Christian, Assistant for Personnel, Merck & Co., RE: Gives a positive reference for Dr. Dickey. [Letter from Christian to LP, October 5, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1951), #98.16]
• Letter from LP to Arthur F. Johnson, RE: Thanks him for the letter on wheat-soya cereal, V932. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (J: Correspondence, 1951), #192.17]
• Letter from LP to Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, RE: Thanks him for the copy of Immuno-Catalysis. [Letter from Thomas to LP, October 9, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1951), #410.6]
• Letter from LP to Charles D. Hurd, Northwestern University. [Letter from Hurd to LP, October 4, 1951 and Letter from LP to Hurd, October 22, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hurd, Charles D.), #163.6]

  October 9, 1951

  Professor Charles D. Hurd

  Department of Chemistry

  Northwestern University

  Evanston, Illinois

  Dear Charles:

  I am very much interested in your polypeptides. I think that it would be well worth while for us to make an x-ray investigation of them.

  We would be very glad to study the compound composed of C-allyl-glycine units, and I suggest accordingly that you send us a sample of this substance. A 250 mg. sample, mentioned in your letter, would be satisfactory.

  I do not think that we should ask you to synthesize the D,L-leucine polypeptide, because D,L polypeptides are not well suited to x-ray investigation.

  Let me thank you for calling my attention to the availability of your materials. We are very anxious to the detailed structures of some synthetic polypeptides, and because of the element of chance involved in the structure determinations we want to investigate as many different substances as possible.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

  cc: Prof. Corey

  Mr. Yakel

• Letter from LP to Clifton P. Idyll, Adelphi College, RE: Explains that many people are working on similar projects as Idyll. [Letter from Idyll to LP September 13, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1951), #185.12]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Charles V. Richards, RE: Thanks him for his August 22nd letter and explains that his delay in answering was due to him being in the East since the letter’s arrival. Informs him that he caught the error in his textbook which Richards mentioned and it has since been corrected. [Letter from Richard to LP, August 22, 1951] [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer #2, Folder #2.009]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Melvin Calvin, California Section, American Chemical Society, RE: States that he is glad to have the letter verifying what Dr. Calvin told him on the phone. Says that he is very pleased to be the first recipient of the Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal. Expresses his admiration for Gilbert Newton Lewis and states that it is an honor to be considered one of his followers. Writes that he and AHP look forward to their visit and that he will talk for a short while, as Dr. Calvin suggested. [Letter from Calvin to LP, October 2, 1951] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1951s.19]
• Letter from LP to Edgar Heilbronner, Organic Chemistry Laboratories, Institute of Technology, RE: States that it was a pleasure to work with Dr. Heilbronner and that he is sorry that he is no longer working at the Institute. [Letter from Heilbronner to LP, August 24, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1951), #166.2]
• Letter from LP to George A. Whittington, Editor, Industrial Laboratories, RE: Thanks him for the tear sheet from the October issue of Industrial Laboratories. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1951), #443.19]
• Letter from LP to J. A. Campbell, Severance Chemical Laboratory, Oberlin College, RE: States that he would be glad to be a reference for Campbell. [Letter from Campbell to LP, August 23, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Campbell, J. A.), #57.7]
• Letter from LP to J. S. McKinley McKee RE: Regretfully informs McKee that the Institute cannot offer him a fellowship due to a lack of funds. [Letters from McKee to LP, September 14, 1951 and September 29, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1951), #256.2]
• Letter from LP to M.S. Sundaram, Embassy of India, RE: Plans for LP and AHP’s trip to India. LP is unsure about whether or not he will be granted leave from CIT; also wants to fly around the world, not round trip from Pasadena to India. [Letter from Sundaram to LP, October 2, 1951; letter from Sundaram to LP, October 17, 1951] [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder #1.9]
• Letter from LP to N. A. Parkinson, Assistant to the Editor, Chemical and Engineering News, RE: Agrees to prepare a review of the book, Die Chemische Affinität, by Egon Wiberg. [Letter from Parkinson to LP, October 4, 1951and Letter from LP to Parkinson, November 2, 1951] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1951a2.9]
• Letter from LP to S. C. Lind, Editor, Journal of Physical and Colloid Chemistry, cc. W. Albert Noyes, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, RE: States that he has not decided about preparing a reply to Fajan’s review of General Chemistry. Proposes that they print another review by a “man of less extraordinary views” for his newer textbook, College Chemistry. [Letter from Noyes to Lind, October 15, 1951 and Letter from Lind to LP, September 17, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Journal of the American Chemical Society), #191.1]
• Letter from LP to W. Albert Noyes, Jr., Editor, cc: R. E. Rundle, Journal of the American Chemical Society, RE: Discusses the publication of data in x-ray diffraction and electron-diffraction papers in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. [Letter from Rundle to LP, October 15, 1951 and Letter from Noyes to LP, October 16, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Journal of the American Chemical Society), #191.1]
• Letter from Louis Levin, Head, Biochemistry Branch, Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, to LP, RE: Acknowledges that his proposal on protein structure has now been sent to the contract department for negotiation but makes no promises regarding the amount of money to be rewarded. Requests that an abstract about the research be written for their records. Handwritten note from LP to Corey: “Please prepare abstract.” and “see attached.” Includes two copies of the abstract. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Memoranda, Notes and Assorted Materials re: “the Structure and Properties of Proteins and Synthetic Polypeptides”, Contract Nonr 220(05) (Chemistry 32), 1951-1963), Box #14.032, Folder #32.1]
• Letter from Marvin Hass to LP, RE: Discusses the possibility of obtaining a teaching or research assistantship for the winter semester of 1952. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1951), #166.2]
• Letter from Ralph A. Beebe, Department of Chemistry, Amherst College, to LP, RE: Says that he would appreciate hearing from LP if he is able to give a lecture. [Letters from LP to Beebe, October 1, 1951 and October 18, 1951] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1951), #37.18]
• Memo from LP to Himself, RE: Concerns a paper that Professor Lunn wrote, which was never published. [Filed under LP Books: Unpb.7]