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Letter from Linus Pauling to Sir Thomas Taylor. Page 1. July 2, 1952

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Letter from Dr. H. S. Hass to LP RE: Thanks LP for the help and the congratulations for his election as president of the Sugar Research Foundation, Inc. [Letter from LP to Dr. Hass June 19, 1952] [Filed under H Correspondence: 1952, Box #166, Folder #3]
Letter from LP to Prof. C. Gardner Swain RE: is unable to come to the meeting for the Mechanisms Conference at M.I.T. [Letter from Prof. Swain to LP June 27, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #378, Folder #6].
Letter from LP to Prof. I. M. Kolthoff RE: writes in response to Prof. Kolthoff's request that he does not have an extra copy of Senator Morse's speech. Mentions the "Lattimore case" as being a good lesson to the State Dept. and goes on to write that he hopes to meet Prof. Kolthoff in London as he is finally issued a passport for summer travel. [Letter from Prof. Kolthoff to LP June 30, 1952, letter from Prof. Kolthoff to LP July 7, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #199, Folder #8].
Letter from LP to Prof. T.W.J. Taylor. [Letter from Prof. T.W.J. Taylor to LP January 28, 1952, letter from Prof. T. W. J. Taylor to LP August 8, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #405, Folder #7, file: (Taylor, T. W. J.)]

2 July 1952

Sir Thomas Taylor, Principal

University College of the West Indies

Mona, St. Andrew

Jamaica, B.W.I.

Dear Taylor:

I am happy to see in the last issue of NATURE that you have been knighted, and I write to extend my congratulations to you.

Ava Helen and I are still hoping to come down to Jamaica to visit you. I do not know when it will be possible for us to do so. I am now working hard on a revision of my textbook GENERAL CHEMISTRY - we plan to get out a second edition next spring. In revising the book I am making it somewhat more advanced; my COLLEGE CHEMISTRY is a slightly more elementary discussion of the same material.

We have been having a lot of fun in our work on the structure of proteins. There now seems to be pretty general agreement that some of our structures are correct, although a few people, namely the workers at Courtaulds, are still complaining.

Our eldest son, Linus Jr., got his M.D. degree last month. He and his wife are now in Honolulu. He is to intern at the Queen's Hospital. We have their three little boys with us - the eldest has just passed his third birthday. They and our three younger children are going to fly over to Honolulu later this month.

Our second son Peter, got his bachelor's degree in physics at this Institute, and is going to go to Cambridge in September. He has been accepted at Peterhouse, and is going to work with Kendrew in the Cavendish.

We send our best regards to Lady Taylor,

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling:W

Letter from Mark A. Stahmann to LP RE: writes that Dr. Irving S. Bendelsdorf mentioned that he wanted to have polyglycine for x-ray studies. Would be happy to send LP some of his samples. Sends a reprint on the synthesis of polypeptides and on a method for adding amino acids and peptides to proteins. Requests reprints of LP's about synthetic polypeptides. [Note in pencil at top: "other correspondence to H. Yakel."] [Letter of response from LP to Dr. Stahmann July 8, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #378, Folder #6].
Note from Prof. F. J. Toole to LP RE: Comments on the enclosures regarding LP's passport problems that he included in his last letter. Discusses the building of a new University space for the chemistry dept. Mentions his children. [Letter from LP to Prof. F. J. Toole May 9, 1952, letter from LP to Prof. Toole July 14, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #407, Folder #8].