Letter from Linus Pauling to Ben May. March 3, 1952. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Letter from Donald P. Cottrell of Ohio State University, to LP RE: thanks LP for his letter endorsing Howard J. Lucas for an honorary degree at the Ohio State University. [Letter from LP to Dean Cottrell February 21, 1952] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1952, Box #230, Folder #18]
• Letter from Juan Llado Martorell to LP RE: [written in Spanish] [Letter of response from LP to Sr. Juan Llado Martorell March 18, 1952] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1952, Box #256, Folder #3]
• Letter from L. Reed Brantley of Occidental College RE: says that after the meeting of the American Chemical Society Standing Committee on Chemical Education in the fall of 1951, the Sub-Committee was "charged with the responsibility of reporting to the Standing Committee suggestions for a program to further the objectives for chemical education." Mr. Brantley invites LP to serve as a member of this Sub-Committee. [Letter of response from LP to Mr. Brantley March 5, 1952] [Filed under B: Correspondence 1952, Box #37, Folder #19]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Max Mason RE: thanks him for talking the proposed California Society of Fellows over with Bentrell. Requests a statement for Bantrell about the proposed plan, as outlined in LP's prospectus. Sends along a copy of the report on the Harvard Society of Fellows for interest value. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #23, Folder #5].
• Letter from LP to Mr. Ben May. [Letter from Mr. Ben May February 25, 1952, letter from Mr. May to LP March 3, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #244, Folder #5 (May, Ben)]

  3 March 1952

  Mr. Ben May

  P.O. Box 1186

  Mobile 7, Alabama

  Dear Mr. May:

  I thank you for your last letter, and the clipping from the Lancet, as well as for other letters and clippings that you have sent to me during recent months.

  I may say that our work on sickle cell anemia is continuing to go along well. A number of hematological abnormalities related to hemoglobin have been uncovered. Also, plans are moving along well for the clinical test of a therapeutic treatment that we have formulated on the basis of our knowledge of the abnormality of the hemoglobin. This clinical work is being carried out by Dr. George Burch, Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. He has gone through the preliminary period of study, development of assay methods, etc., and reported to me that the one patient on whom the therapy had been tried out got better, although of course one patient is not enough to prove anything.

  We are very pleased with a new development here. A resident of southern California gave the California Institute of Technology $750,000 last year, toward the expense of building a new laboratory of chemical biology. In January he died, and in his a will he left an additional $300,000 for the construction of the laboratory. Building costs are very high now, but I believe that the Trustees are planning to go ahead with the construction of the building. Professor Beadle and I are hoping that we can raise some additional money to equip the laboratory space that will be provided. Both Professor Beadle and I, together with the people who are working most closely with us, especially on problems of chemical biology that relate to medicine, will move into the new building. It will, according to our plans, be connected directly to the present chemistry laboratory and to the present biology laboratory.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Mr. Ben May to LP RE: Again, sends LP clippings of articles relating to sickle cell anemia. [Letter from LP to Mr. Ben May March 3, 1952, letter from Mr. May to LP March 5, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #244, Folder #5 (May, Ben)].
• Letter from W.N. Lacey to LP RE: Outline of what was discussed at the meeting regarding graduate research assistantships. Highlights from a meeting outlining the new policy of having two different classes of graduate assistants rather than one. There will now be Graduate Research Assistants and Graduate Teaching Assistants.
• Memo from LP to Dr. Rack RE: Discusses the calculation of radial distribution functions for helical structures. [LP Science: Box 6.002, Folder 2.4]
• Pauling Scrapbook: Pasadena Star News article entitled "Dilworth Group Urges American Ideals Classes." RE: discusses a report from the State Senate Investigation Committee on Education which recommends a special course for California public schools teaching the difference in living standards in America and under totalitarian regimes. Forty pages of the report were devoted to LP. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.22]
• Review of “States of Matter, Vol. 2 of the third edition of a Treatise on Physical Chemistry,” Chemical and Engineering News. 30 (March 1952): 928. [Filed under LP Reprints: (Publications of Linus Pauling, 1952), Box 1952p, Folder 1952p. 20]