Activity Listings
- Letter from Bertram Keilin to LP RE: writes that he is applying for a position as research associate at Oklahoma A&M College, Dept of Chemistry. Requests that LP write a letter of recommendation for him to Professor O. C. Dermer, head of the department of Chemistry at Oklahoma A&M College. [Letter of response from LP to Dr. Bertram Keilin January 20, 1953] [Filed under K: Correspondence 1953, Box #200, Folder #18]
- Letter from Dr. G. E. Burch to LP Re: thanks LP for the letter of January 16, 1953, concerning Dr. Coppedge. Hopes that Dr. Itano will be able to visit. [Letter from Colonel W.N. Cogswell to LP regarding Dr. Coppedge enclosed] [Letter from LP January 16, 1953, letter of response from LP February 10, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #33, Folder #8].
- Letter from H.D. Springall to LP. [Reply from LP to Springall January 29, 1953]. [Filed under LP Science: Box 9.001, Folder 1.23]
19th January, 1953.
Professor Linus Pauling,
The Gates and Crellin Laboratories,
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena 4,
California.
My dear Linus,
A very rapid note to offer my heartiest congratulations on the 3-stranded and 7-stranded cable postulates for α-proteins, which have just appeared in Nature.
Would you please extend my congratulations to Professor Corey?
All good wishes for the New Year to you and yours and my old friends in "Cal.Tech.".
Yours ever,
Spring
- Letter from LP to Dr. George H. Young RE: in response to his letter, LP writes that Caltech could use some more reprints of the article describing employment opportunities at Mellon Institute. [Letter from Dr. Young to LP January 19, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #462, Folder #9].
- Letter from Mr. J. C. Graddo of The Royal Society RE: requests that LP let him have full reference to papers by Schmitt, Hall and Jakus 1942 that he referred to in his second contribution to the "Discussion of Proteins" which is going into paper soon. [Letter of response from LP to Mr. Graddo January 28, 1953].
- Letter from Paul Emmett to LP RE: Congratulates LP on his successful research upon receipt of LP's report for 1952 and 1953. [Filed under LP Safe: Box 2.021, Folder 21.15]
- Pauling Scrapbook: Pasadena Star News article entitled "Body Protein Discoveries Bared Here" RE: discusses a recent finding by x-ray diffraction that muscle, hair and fingernails are all constructed of molecules twisted into the shape of ropes and cable. Attributes the finding to LP and Dr. Corey. [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 6.006, Folder 6.30]
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