Letter from Linus Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. April 6, 1953. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 3 pp.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• LP Newspaper Clipping: 1953n. New York World-Telegram and Sun article "Enzyme Club Leads to Super-insecticides". April 10, 1953 [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: 1953n2.4]
• LP attends the Ninth Triennial Conference, Institut International de Chimie Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1953s.4]
• Letter from Brahama Datta Sharma to LP RE: a student of chemistry now working in the National Chemistry Laboratory with Dr. Biswas who is working on protein structures and requests reprints of some of LP's papers. [Note in pencil at left of letter: "all protein reprints sent 4/30/53."] [Letter of reply from LP to Mr. Sharma May 7, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #379, Folder #1].
• Letter from Dr. Netter to LP RE: [Written in German]. [Related letter from Netter to LP May 6, 1953]. [Filed under LP Peace: Box 4.001, Folder 1.3]
• Letter from Frederick L. Stone, Chief, Extramural Programs, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness to Dr. Lee Dubridge RE: discussion of the Commission on Higher Education and LP's support of public health research. [Letter from DuBridge to Stone March 14, 1953] [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 1.030, Folder 30.4]
• Letter from Henry Allen Moe, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to LP RE: Requests that letter sent to LP on April 6, 1953 be sent back to him, and he will get in touch with LP in New Haven. [Reply to letter from Wulf to Moe April 8, 1953]. [Filed under LP Science: Box 14.015, Folder 15.1].
• Letter from LP to Ava Helen Pauling RE: Writes that yesterday was interesting, with a talk by Bragg and a discussion of LP's own work. He mentions spending some time thinking about collagen structure, and a biochemical meeting going on tomorrow. He also says that there are very few wives attending the conference. [Filed under LP Safe: Box #1.021, Folder #21.6]

  BRUSSEL, 10 April 1953 [Date handwritten]

  11, EGMONSTRAAT

  Dearest love:

  Yesterday was also an interesting day, with a talk by Bragg + discussion of my work in the morning, and reports by Chibnall and others in the afternoon. This morning Theorell is to speak.

  I went to a movie last night, but it wasn't very good. I came home, thought about collagen a while, and then went

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  to bed. I have slept better the last two nights.

  Tomorrow we attend the Biochemical meeting, and I go to tea at the Timmermans. On Sunday we make a tour of Bruges. We continue our work on Monday, + on Tuesday I start home. I shall come to La Guardia as soon as I can, and look for you at the Eastern Airlines place. My BOAC plane may be late, of course.

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  Not many wives have come to this congress — about 2 in addition to Lady Bragg.

  I suggested that the Braggs come to Pasadena a week early in order that we might take them to Yosemite. They plan to do so.

  I must pop off now to the meeting.

  Love from

  Paddy

• Note from Mr. Denny Vaughan to LP RE: request suggestions about how he might go about fusing a white powder with flavor together without losing the intensity of the flavor. [Letter of response from BW to Mr. Vaughan April 30, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #427, Folder #13].
• Pauling Scrapbook: New York World- Telegram and Sun article entitled "Enzyme Clue Leads to Super-Insecticides." RE: a new alternative super-insecticide is being developed based on research at the U. of California citrus experiment station. LP's knowledge of the way enzymes in insects control their growth made the chemical building of the insecticides possible. [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 6.006, Folder 6.32]