Activity Listings
- AHP writes cheque to: Jesse Rosoff [The Parkway-Pasadena]: amount: $38.71 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
- AHP writes cheque to: Mrs Elizabeth Gillette: amount: $20.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
- LP writes cheque to: Peter J. Pauling: amount: $475.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #1]
- Letter from LP to Dr. J. J. Blum RE: Appreciates the work that he has done over the last year, was pleased to have the opportunity to work with him for a year. Then asks in great detail about the matter of a water bill LP received after returning from England at the 3500 Fairpoint St. house that Dr. Blum stayed in. Apparently the bill was unusually high in July and August. [Letter of response from Dr. Blum to LP December 20, 1953] [Filed under B: Correspondence 1953, Box #37, Folder #20]
- Letter from LP to Peter Pauling [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.041, Folder #41.7]
12 December 1953
Dear Peter:
I have received a catalogue from Harvard, covering work for higher degrees in the medical sciences, and have noticed something that might interest you.
One of the Ph.D. degrees awarded, in 1952, was to Dr. F. M. Richards. His thesis was "Studies on the Density and Composition of Some Protein Crystals, Including a Preliminary Investigation of the Crystal Structure of Zinc Diglycinate Monohydrate."
I haven't seen anything published about this investigation and probably he didn't get very far with it. If you decide to do work on amino-acid complexes of metals, you might want to find out what results he has got. Probably the best way to do this would be to write to Dr. Barbara Low, University Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Harvard University, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston 15, Mass.
Love from
Linus Pauling:W
- Letter from LP to Peter Pauling [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.041, Folder #41.7]
12 December 1953
Dear Peter:
I enclose my check for $375, representing payments for 1 January, 1 February, and 1 March. Also a check for $100, as a Christmas present.
Mama and I agree with you that it probably is best for you not to try to meet us in Athens. We are going to stay in the Hotel Athenee Palace, and are scheduled to arrive there on the evening of 17 December and to leave the morning of 23 December. George, Mama's oldest brother, and his wife Billie are staying in the house with Crellin while we are gone. Crellin is going to Honolulu for two weeks at Christmas. Linda probably not - she has been invited to stay a few days with Wendell Stanley, at his parents' home, and then will come down here, I think. Wendell is in the Army - Fort Ord.
Bill Freeman was here yesterday. He said that chemistry teachers that he had talked with on his tour around the country like the new edition of General Chemistry. He gave me a large number of comments on the book, especially on College Chemistry, which is used more. About half of the comments are highly critical, and the other half favorable. The critical comments are interesting, in that two different people, in different schools, may remark on the same point, and make opposed recommendations about change - one suggests more atomic structure, the other less, and so on.
Jack Roughton is here too. He is Professor of Physiology (I think) in Cambridge.
Love From
Linus Pauling:W
- Letter from Peter Pauling to LP RE: Is considering going to Greece, but asks for LP and AHP's opinion. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 5.041, Folder 41.7]
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