Letter from Linus Pauling to Stanley Schaefer. March 19, 1953. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.

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• Letter from Jerry Donohue, Cavendish Laboratory, to LP. [Filed under LP Science: Box 9.001, Folder 1.31]

  March 20, 1953

  Dear Dr. Pauling

  I enclose a copy of the helical paper. You will note that I now include the α_II ribbon among the possible structures. I found the version in the paper in a very curious way: I set out to prove analytically that it couldn't be built, and as I rotated the two residues the hydrogen bond gradually became "satisfactory!" I hope we have time to discuss this when you are here next month, unless you wish to send it off to the PNAS straight away.

  Watson and Crick have constructed a very ingenious nucleic acid structure which they have written (but not sent) a letter to Nature about. They will send you a copy at the beginning of next week, as Bragg is now ill with flu, and they feel he should see it before they send it anywhere. I have become (actively) interested in this problem myself, although I find I lack the necessary background, a situation which I am now remedying.

  Have you heard any more about the grant for the nucleic acid program that you mentioned in your letter to me on December 23, as I should certainly appreciate the "definite offer" you wrote of, as I do not have any other firm prospects at the moment.

  The EDSAC is at present being overhauled. When that job is finished I hope to be able to run off the three Pattersons on sheep Hb, as the experimental part is finished. I do not think this will be done until the end of next month, though.

  Sincerely,

  Jerry

  P. S. The reason that the CS₂S₆ structure in the February Acta still shows the alternating S-S distances is that the parameters differ from those in the MIT report you had. They differ in such a way as to preserve the alternation when the correct conversion from triclinic to orthogonal coordinates is made.

• Letter from LP [signed in his absence by Beatrice Wulf] to Mr. Cyril Craig RE: Writes that he doubts that the ideas about photosynthesis that Mr. Craig suggested in his letter are really correct and sets about to describe why. [Letter from Mr. Craig to LP March 14, 1953] [Filed under C: Correspondence 1953, Box #74, Folder #21].
• Letter from LP to Dean Watson RE: Does not wish to accept Dr. I. E. Keszler as a post-doctoral fellow on the basis that she wishes to work out practical problems and not basic research. [Letter from LP to Dean Watson March 13, 1953, Memo from L. Zechmeister to LP. [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 1.030, Folder 30.8]
• Letter from Percy L. Julian to LP RE: Responds to LP's invitation to Caltech's upcoming conference on protein structure. Wishes to send Dr. Sidney J. Circle in his place, and Julian will likely be unable to attend. Also wishes to know more about Caltech's industrial associates. [LP invitation to Percy L. Julian February 9, 1953] [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 1.028, Folder 28.3]
• Letter from Professor F.H. van den Dungen to LP, RE: [In French] Van den Dungen will transfer the travel funds from Pan American to the British Overseas Airline Company. Van den Dungen provides LP with details of the times for the lecture and for the banquet. [LP’s letter March 12, 1953] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by Linus Pauling, 1953), Box 1953s, Folder 1953s.4]
• Letter from Theodore McClintock, W.H. Freeman and Company, to LP RE: inquiring about the usage of various units and "molal" vs "Molar" usage in LP's manuscript for the revised edition of General Chemistry. [Reply from LP to McClintock March 27, 1953].
• Letter from Tomoji Tanaka to LP RE: sends a copy of the same letter he sent March 8, 1953, with the assumption that his first letter did not reach LP. [previous letter from Tomoji Tanaka to LP March 8, 1953, letter of response from LP to Mr. Tanaka March 19, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #410, Folder #18].
• Letter from [?] to LP RE: news clipping entitled "News Guild Lists Page One Awards." Lists LP as outstanding in Science due to his research in the structure of protein molecules. [Note in pen at top: "Dir. Mail to D. Pauling, N.Y. Times: March 20. 1953"].