Letter from Linus Pauling to Arne Tiselius. October 17, 1952. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount: $5.68 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Bullock's amount: $51.52 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Caltech Alumni Association amount: $4.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fashion Cleaners amount: $14.40 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Friends of the Hunting Library amount: $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Lang of California amount: $32.98 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Libbers amount: $26.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Mara Lama Mutual Water Company amount: $31.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Art Institute amount: $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Riche Fetch amount: $8.32 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Richfield Oil Company amount: $4.20 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: Roman's Book Store amount: $5.18 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• AHP writes cheque to: William Taylor amount: $6.73 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• LP writes cheque to: Fowler Brothers amount: $15.97 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.021, Folder #3]
• Letter from J. Miller to President of Caltech RE: writes that during November 1953 through December 1954 he will be permitted by his University to proceed on sabbatical to spend time in the U.S.A. He requests information from Caltech about scholarships and teaching fellowships. His interests are in Organic and Physical Organic Chemistry. [Note in pencil at top of letter: "Dr. Pauling: Any interest in this man?" response from LP in black pen: "He might be sent blanks for A A Noyes Fellowship."] [Letter of response from LP to J. Miller October 24, 1952] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1952, Box #256, Folder #3]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Arne Tiselius of Biokemiska Institution, Sweden. [Letter from LP to Prof. Arne Tiselius June 12, 1952, letter from Prof. Tiselius to LP November 17, 1952] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #407, Folder #5]

  17 October 1952

  Prof. Arne Tiselius

  Biokemiska Institutionen

  Uppsala Universitet

  Uppsala, Sweden

  Dear Arne:

  I am writing to tell you that the remainder of the trip that Ava Helen and I made to Europe turned out very well, and to thank you again for your assistance in getting my passport.

  We spent one month in England. I visited most of the laboratories in which x-ray work on protein structure is being done, and talked with most of the people who are doing such work. In this way I made up, I think, for the failure to attend the Royal Society meeting in May - at any rate, so far as I myself am concerned, in that the doubts that some of these people had about the correctness of our protein structures were strongly expressed to me during my visits with them.

  As a result, I concentrated on the problem of explaining the difficulties, and fortunately was able to find what seems to be a satisfactory solution. Professor Corey and I have written a brief statement about this work, and it will be published soon in NATURE. I think that the new structures - which represent only slight changes, but still significant ones, of our original α-keratin structure - are very interesting, and I am hoping that we shall find some biological materials have still more complex aggregates of the α helix, such as a cable composed of nineteen α helices twisted about one another.

  I am looking forward to seeing you in Stockholm next summer; perhaps also in Brussels in the spring.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

  Encl.

• Letter from Leonard Lerman to LP RE: writes that he has begun a manuscript for his Hapten paper and asks what journal LP thinks he should prepare it for. Also encloses a summary for his Chicago work and asks LP for comments. The work has something to do with enzymes. Also urges LP to do a seminar at U. of Colorado. [Note in pen at left: "JACS or J Imm" also at top a mathematical equation is written out] [Manuscript included with the title "A Biochemically Specific Method for Enzyme Isolation"] [Letter of response from LP to Dr. Lerman October 23, 1952] [Filed under L: Correspondence 1952, Box #230, Folder #18]