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• Article: "40^th Class Graduates Many Receive Awards", Reed College (Portland, Oregon) Sallyport, June 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.58]
• LP calls the suspension of J. Robert Oppenheimer from the his advisory activities with the Atomic Energy Commission "a disgraceful act on the part of the government of the United States."
• Typescript and Correspondence: Introduction to The Structural Chemistry of Proteins, by H. D. Springall, June - December 1954. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles, 1954a.13]

• AHP writes cheque to: Pierre Dalinet Coiffures amount $8.75 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Dr. W. G. Palmer to LP RE: Response to LP's complaints against his review of General Chemistry stating he cannot enter a "direct and private correspondence with LP until he receives word from Editor Ewald on the matter. [LP's letter May 18, 1954] [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box # 7] [Ewald's letter June 11, 1954]
• Letter from Fritz Lipmann to LP RE: Thanking him for note of congratulations on Nobel Prize. [LP's letter January 18, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Abe Fadem RE: Reply to Fadem's letter and request that LP help him get his short story, "Martian Moxie," published. LP does not feel he can get the story published for numerous reasons. [Letter from Fadem May 4, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
• Letter from LP to Albert Einstein. [Filed under E: Individual Correspondence, Box #107.1]

  1 June 1954

  Prof. Albert Einstein

  Institute for Advanced Study

  Princeton, New Jersey

  Dear Professor Einstein:

  I have been talking with the members of a new organization, Everybody’s Committee to Outlaw War, and am writing to you now to ask if you could make a brief statement to be used in the publications of this Committee.

  I enclose the first pamphlet that the Committee has prepared. You will see that there is a brief quotation from you on the bottom of the first page.

  It seems to me that the pamphlet may well have a significant effect. I have found that the problem of working for peace in the world in an effective way is a difficult one. We have, however, to continue to work toward this end.

  I am sorry that I have not been able to come to Princeton during the last two years. I am hoping, however, to be able to visit you again sometime during the coming year.

  My work has gone along well in general. My wife and I suffered a serious disappointment in December. I had been invited by the Government of India and the Indian Science Congress Association to come to India for six weeks. My wife and I started on the trip, but did not get farther than New York, because the Department of State failed to take action on my request for validation of my passport for this trip. After two weeks of last-minute effort, and after the time when it would have been necessary to leave in order to attend the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad, we gave up, and came home.

  Night before last we had a sort of reunion. Harold Urey was visiting Pasadena, and he, his daughter and son-in-law, and

  Prof. Einstein -2- 1/6/54.

  Harrison Brown and Mrs. Brown cane to our house for dinner. We wish that you had been with us too.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Dr. I. Moyer Hunsberger RE: Thanks for manuscript. [Hunsberger's letter May 20, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. S. S. Penner RE: Accepting invitation to prepare a paper (with Corey) on the structure of large molecules (esp. protein) for the Second Conference of West Coast Spectroscopists [Penner's letter of April 27, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to Francis Blancet RE: Acceptance of invitation to speak at UCLA and UC Berkeley. States available dates to speak are March 28, 1955 and April 2, 1955. There is an attached summary of the lecture topic(s). [Letter from Francis E. Blancet to LP April 27, 1954 reply from LP to Blancet June 1, 1954] [Filed B correspondence 1954, Box #37.21].
• Letter from LP to Gilda Vasconcelos RE: Reply to Vasconselos' letter or January 11, 1954; apologizes for delay in response and thanks her for article from Paul Schatz and invites her to visit when LP returns home in July. [Vasconcelos' letterJanuary 11, 1954] [Filed under V: Correspondence 1954, Box #427.14]
• Letter from LP to Malcolm Wright RE: Reply to Wright's letter of January 12, 1954, thanking him for clipping and letter and wishing him well. [Wright's letter January 12, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from LP to P. P. Ewald RE: Acknowledgment of Ewald's letter of June 1, 1954. LP anticipates Palmer's reply to his letter and defense of his criticism of LP's book. He does not plan to attend Assembly of the Union of Crystallography over the summer. [Ewald's letter of June 1, 1954] [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box # 7]
• Letter from LP to W. H. Freeman RE: Stating LP will be able to see Wall while in the East. [Freeman's letter May 11, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP would like Freeman to send him four copies of College Chemistry, which he intends to cut up and paste into the preparation of the second edition. They need not be bound. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from LP to the Braun Corporation RE: Request for refund check for $31.52. [Filed B correspondence 1954, Box #37.21].
• Letter from The Svedberg to LP RE: Requesting that LP allow Sven Malmstrom visit Caltech laboratories while in the U. S. [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #370.11]
• Letter from W. H. Freeman to LP RE: Freeman hopes LP will be able to meet Ralph Emerson, the Botany Editor while at the symposium in Dartmouth, where he is also giving a paper [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Manuscript Notes, Diagrams: "CeMg₁₂" and TiBe₁₂", June 1, 1954. [Filed under LP Science: (Materials re: Electron Theory and the Structure of Metals and Intermetallic Compounds, 1950-1955), Box #5.003, Folder #3.20]
• Memorandum from A.H. Walter to R.B. Gilmore, cc: LP RE: Final Notification of Amendment No. 8 to Contract N6onr-24432. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.17]
• Memorandum from LP to A.H. Walter RE: LP informs Walter that the application to the PHS for a grant supporting the research on the chemistry of blood must be in by July 1, 1954 to be considered at the November meeting. LP will be away in late June and asks that Walter send the application. [Filed under LP Science: (United States Public Health Service: Assorted Grants, 1954-1964), Box #14.042, Folder 42.1]

• Letter from G. Hagg, University of Uppsala, to LP . RE: Hagg says that he has used LP's textbooks for several years and found them extremely valuable. He mentions two errors he has found in both texts. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from LP to A. R. Todd RE: Reply to Todd's letter of May 11, 1954. LP invites him to lecture at Caltech during the fall term [Todd's reply June 28, 1954] [Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #407.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. T. S. Work RE: Invites Work to visit Caltech and stay at the Athenaeum, but cannot contribute to his traveling expenses [Letter from Work May 18, 1954; Work's reply June 14, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from LP to E. S. Proskauer, Editor-in-Chief, Interscience Publishers, Inc. RE: LP declines invitation to serve on advisory board of a proposed new journal on Molecular or Physico-Chemical Biology and does not believe that such a journal would be a worthwhile endeavor. [Proskauer's letter May 19, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to J. F. Postell, Hanovia Chemical and Manufacturing Co. RE: LP responds that his part in the development of hydrocarbon insecticide was not significant and he does not know about the commercial process used to make it. [Postell's letter May 25, 1954] [Filed under P: Correspondence 1954, Box #313.2]
• Letter from LP to Prof. San-ichiro Mizushima RE: Reply to Mizushima's letter of May 29, 1954 and thanking him for bringing the silk worms to Pasadena; LP regrets that he will be out of town during Mizushima's visit, but has reserved a room for him at the Athenaeum for his stay. [Mizushima's letter May 29, 1954] [Filed under M: Individual Correspondence, Box #248.6]
• Letter from LP to Richard Wistar. [Wistar's reply June 11, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]

  2 June 1954

  Dr. Richard Wistar, Chairman

  Committee on Awards

  California Section, A.C.S.

  2082 Center Street, Room 322

  Berkeley 4, California

  Dear Dr. Wistar:

  I thank you for your letter of 27 May.

  I am writing to nominate Professor Lars Onsager of Yale University for the Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal. Beginning with his brilliant work on the theory of electric conductivity of salt solutions, he has made a series of outstanding contributions to theoretical chemistry. His work on dielectric constant and other properties of liquids may be mentioned, and also his fundamental contributions to the thermodynamic theory of non—equilibrium systems. Onsager must be included in any list of great theoretical chemists.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Theodore Shedlovsky RE: reply to Shedlovsky's offer of fellowships for some researchers at MIT; LP hopes to be able to make a recommendation in a few weeks when the situation for the following year is made clear. [Shedlovsky's letter May 18, 1954; Caltech's following letter June 23, 1954] [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence Box #72.4]
• Letter from Marjorie McEnaney, Program Organizer, Talks and Public Affairs, Canadian Broadcasting Co., to LP RE: Informs that the CBC would like to record a nine minute talk from him. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.11]
• Letter from P. P. Ewald to LP RE: Reply to LP's letter and contribution of May 26, 1954, thanking him for the check. Identifies next step in countering Palmer's criticism that of writing a formal letter to the editor of the journal, which Palmer can formally reply to; however he wonders if this much work should be devoted to refuting the arguments of the reviewer. [LP's letter May 26, 1954; LP's reply June 9, 1954] [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box # 7]
• Manuscript Notes re: The Oppenheimer Case [LP Biographical: Box 2.036, Folder 36.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: "A-scientist Loyal But Still Out", Los Angeles Daily News, June 2, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Oppenheimer Appeals Atomic Ouster Case", Pasadena Star-News, June 2, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.3]

• LP writes cheque to: Robert B. Corey amount $150.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Executive Secretary to LP, to E. K. Brickenden, M. C. I. C., Hotel Liaison and Accommodation Committee, Chemical Institute of Canada, RE: Asks for an additional room to be reserved for Linda Pauling. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s. 11]
• Letter from Frederick D. Rossini to W. J. Sparks, Chairman of the Division of Chem. and Chem Tech., National Research Council, cc: LP RE: Progress report of the work of the NRC Committee on Physical Chemistry as of 6/1/54; report enclosed. [Filed under LP Science: (National Research Council, 1950-1992), Box #14.028, Folder 28.1]
• Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to LP RE: Moe thanks LP for his interest in Dr. A. H. Livermore of Reed College and his current situation with the Guggenheim Fellowship, which has been resolved. Moe further discusses the disbursement policy of the Foundation funds. [LP's letter to Moe May 27, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder 15. 2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Eugene S. McCartney, University of Michigan Press. [Reply from McCartney June 10, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]

  3 June 1954

  Dr. Eugene S. McCartney

  University of Michigan Press

  Ann Arbor, Michigan

  Dear Dr. McCartney:

  I have just begun to read my copy of your book Recurrent Maladies in Scholarly Writing, which arrived today.

  On the second page of the Preface I find the statement "A hundredth paper, if written amid the pressure and distraction of other duties, is bound to be inferior, as are all that are dictated."

  For about ten years I have dictated all of my papers and books. I am sure that they are not inferior either to those written by other people or to those that I wrote in earlier years.

  As an example, I send you herewith one of my papers, The Hemoglobin Molecule in Health and Disease.

  I think that you have made a generalization that is not justified.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

  P.S. Now, two hours after I had dictated the body of this letter, I have finished your book. I enjoyed reading it.

  L.P.

  P.P.S. I have sometimes been displeased by changes made in my manuscripts by editors. When sending a manuscript to a journal in which I have not before published anything, I sometimes ask that my punctuation not be changed; I have known editors who made changes in manuscripts when there were no errors to be corrected, but only a deviation in style from that preferred by them. I once submitted a manuscript to a new journal, and learned only when I saw the proof that extensive editorial changes had been made. I indicated on the proof all of the places where I wanted the construction changed back to that in the original[.]

• Letter from LP to Dr. Morris W. Rakestraw, Journal of Chemical Education RE: LP recommends Moyer Hunsberger's paper on some aspects of theoretical chemistry in Russia for publication in the journal [Filed under J: Organizational Correspondence, Box #191.4]
• Letter from LP to Prof. Moyer Hunsberger RE: Suggests minor corrections for Hunsberger's article on some aspects of theoretical chemistry in Russia. [Reply from Hunsberger June 8, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from LP to the Auto Club of Southern California RE: Request for maps and information for summer trip. [Filed A: Correspondence 1954, Box #12.20].
• Memorandum from F.H. Taylor to LP RE: Lists individuals who are authorized to sign the indicated documents under N6onr Chem. 25. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.2]
• Newspaper Clippings: "His Loyalty Didn't Count...", Los Angeles Daily News, June 3, 1954 [LP Biographical: Box 2.036, Folder 36.8]
• Receipt from MacMillan & Co., Ltd. for renewal subscription to Nature amount: 6.00 [LP Biographical: Box 4.060, Folder 60.2]

• LP writes cheque to: E. Crelling Pauling amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from A.H. Warner to, Office of Naval Research Branch Office to LP RE: Refers to a previous letter in which reports being sent to the UK or to Continental Europe need to be accompanied with addressed, stamped envelopes. This policy has been changed and no postage is required anymore. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder 31.2]
• Letter from Garnet T. Page, M. C. I. C., General Manager, to LP RE: Encloses Dominion Bank draft No. 498 toward his expenses attending the Annual Conference in Toronto. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.11]
• Letter from James V. Neel, University of Michigan to LP RE: Forwarding reprints LP requested; however, no longer has the 1947 paper "The clinical detection of the genetic carriers of inherited disease." [LP's reply July 28, 1954] [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #287.21]
• Letter from LP to Mary D. Alexander, Production Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Tuve's letter May 26, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]

  4 June 1954

  Miss Mary D. Alexander

  The University of Chicago Press

  5750 Ellis Avenue

  Chicago 37, Illinois

  Dear Miss Alexander:

  I note that in his letter of 26 May to you, a copy of which was sent to me, Dr. M. A. Tuve, in submitting a paper on Biosynthesis of Nucleic Acid by Ellis Bolton, for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, states that he is submitting it.

  In my recent letter to you I stated that I would serve as the member of the Academy in submitting the papers presented at the symposium on the structure and function of nucleic acids. I think, however, that it would be proper for you to indicate in printing Dr. Bolton’s paper that it was submitted by Dr. Tuve.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling RE: Attaches bill from Easibinders and requests that Peter pay it and add the cost to a list of sums to be reimbursed by LP. [LP Biographical: Box 5.042, Folder 42.1]

  4 June 1954

  Dear Peter:

  Here is a bill for Easibinders for the Journal of Chemical Physics, totaling (pound)16 s4. Would you please pay it, and attach it to the list of sums to be reimbursed by me.

  I also enclose the form for subscription to Nature. Would you please attach a check for (pound)6, and mail it at once to the publishers of Nature.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

  Encls.

• Letter from Louis B. Slichter, UCLA to LP RE; Inviting LP to National Science Foundation's conference on Anomalous Permanent Magnetization of Rocks at Idyllwild, 8-7 through August 9, 1954.
• Memo from LP to the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering RE: States the date, time and place of the meeting of the staff of the Division.[Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.020, Folder #20.5]
• Memorandum from Committee on Institute Shops to LP RE: Transfer of chemistry shop from Gates to Church. [LP Biographical: Academia Box #1.030, Folder #30.4]

• AHP writes cheque to: Walter Fritts amount $31.88 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Bulletin: "Excerpts From Majority and Minority Reports", Federation of American Scientists, June 5, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.7]
• Bulletin: "Reaction to Security Board's Recommendation on Oppenheimer Case", Federation of American Scientists, June 5, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.5]
• Bulletin: "Summary of Editorial Comment", Federation of American Scientists, June 5, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.4]
• Bulletin: "Text of Statement by F.A.S. Executive Committee on Oppenheimer Report", Federation of American Scientists, June 5, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.6]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Executive secretary to LP, to Dr. Garnet T. Page, The Chemical Institute of Canada, RE: Asks to be notified of the time of LP's talk and what kind of dinner clothes will be required. [Telegram from Page to Wulf June 7, 1954] [ Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.11]
• Letter from Harry G. Day, Indiana University to LP RE: Thanking LP for his letter concerning Dr. Hedberg and his recommendations for Martin Karplus and Gary Felsenfeld. They will not hire Hedberg, but he would like more information on Karplus and Felsenfeld [Filed under D: Correspondence 1954, Box #98.19]
• Letter from LP to Duncan S. Ballantine, President, Reed College, RE: Sends copies of the Commencement address he will give the following week. [Letter from Ballantine to LP June 8, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.10]
• Letter from LP to the U.S. Secretary of State. [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]

  Copy

  5 June 1954

  The Secretary of State

  Washington 25, D. C. Ref: 130-Pauling, Linus Carl

  Dear Sir:

  I am sending this letter to you in order that your records about my application in 1953 for passport facilities for travel to India may be set straight.

  There are a number of incorrect statements or implications in the letter of 22 January 1954 to me from R. B. Shipley, Director, Passport Office. This letter consists of three paragraphs, as follows:

  "Reference is made to your letters of December 30 and 31, 1953, other correspondence and to your calls at the Department regarding your request for passport facilities for travel to India.

  "Inasmuch as you were unable to answer the allegations which were outlined to you upon your calls at the Department before the date of your proposed sailing since you did not have your records in Washington with you, the Department was not in a position to act upon your case at the time and in accordance with your request in the letter of December 31, 1953 your application for the amendment of your passport for your proposed trip to India is considered as having been withdrawn.

  "If in the future you should desire passport facilities for travel to any country, you should well in advance of your proposed sailing furnish in detail answers to the allegations which are referred to above."

  The first sentence of the second paragraph refers to "the allegations which were outlined to you upon your calls at the Department before the date of your proposed sailing." I wish to correct this statement. The date of my proposed sailing was 16 December 1953, as stated in my letters to you of 11 September and 16 November 1953 and my telegram to Mrs. Shipley of 14 December 1953. Despite my efforts to obtain action from your Department, no allegations whatever were given me until 29 December 1953, thirteen days after the date of my proposed sailing.

  The same sentence includes the words "Inasmuch as you were unable to answer the allegations … since you did not have your records in Washington with you, the Department was not in a position to act upon your case at the time." This suggests that I was at fault in not having my records

  The Secretary of State, Page 2 5/6/54

  with me. In fact, it is clear that the fault was not mine, but that of your Department. My letter to you of 11 September 1953, requesting validation of my passport for the trip to India and other countries, contained the sentence "I shall be glad to provide any additional information that you may desire." In my letter to you of 19 September 1953 there was the sentence "Please let me know if there is any additional information that you wish to have." In my letter to you of 16 November 1953 there is the sentence "I shall be glad to provide any additional information that you may desire." I did not receive any answer to any of these letters; in particular, I did not receive any request for additional information. On 2 December 1953 I wrote to Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President of the National Academy of Sciences, asking him to check with your Department about my passport. On 4 December he informed me that the action by the Passport Division was expected on Tuesday 8 December. On 14 December, one day before my wife and I were scheduled to leave Pasadena, I telephoned Dr. Bronk, who said that a decision had not yet been made. On 15 December 1953 I telephoned Mrs. Shipley, telling her that my wife and I had a plane reservation to leave Los Angeles that evening, and that I hoped that the decision would be made that day and communicated to me. She did not ask me to provide her with any additional information. Later the same day I received a telephone call from Washington; a woman said "Mrs. Shipley has asked me to call you, to say that the State Department will not be able to make a decision on your application for a passport in time for your sailing today." Nothing more was said - there was no request for information. On the evening of Tuesday 15 December 1953 I sent a telegram to you, as follows: "If you need more information in connection with my passport application please telegraph me Wednesday and I shall come to Washington and be available Thursday." I received no answer to this telegram.

  The foregoing account of my many offers to provide your Department with any additional information that they might desire and the failure of your Department to make any allegations or to ask me for any additional information during this entire period shows that it was not my fault that I did not have my records with me in Washington on 29 December, but rather the fault of your Department.

  On 14 December 1953 I had sent a telegram to Mrs. Shipley reading as follows: "I hope that passport decision can be made Tuesday permitting me to leave Los Angeles 7 P.M. Tuesday and New York 2 P.M. Wednesday. Otherwise my announced scientific lectures Friday at University of Athens and Saturday at Technical University of Athens would be cancelled with unfavorable publicity." On 16 December 1953 I was forced to cancel my lectures in Athens, and I changed our airplane reservations.

  On 17 December 1953 I sent a telegram to you, as follows: "I respectfully request that decision on my passport application be made this week in order to permit delivery of my scheduled and announced scientific addresses in Hebrew University Jerusalem." I received no answer to this telegram. On 19 December 1953 I sent you a telegram, as follows: "I request the courtesy of a decision on my passport application. My wife and

  The Secretary of State, Page 3 5/6/54

  I shall fly to New York Monday 21 December. Biltmore Hotel. In order to give announced scientific lectures in Jerusalem must emplane 2 P.M. Tuesday. I shall inquire at New York office Passport Division 9 A.M. Tuesday 22 December."

  My wife and I flew to New York on 21 December 1953. At 9 A.M. 22 December 1953 I called at the New York office of the Passport Division, and was told that there was no information for me. At 2 P.M. on the same day an official in the New York office of the Passport Division said to me "I have been ordered to tell you that your passport has been refused, and that you may appeal by writing a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Board of Passport Appeals." I immediately wrote down his statement, the foregoing sentence, and sent a cable cancelling my scheduled lectures in Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

  On 24 December 1953 my lawyer, Mr. James R. Murphy, told me that the State Department had told him that the passport had been only tentatively refused, that an appeal could not be made, and that, instead, an informal conference would be held at 10 A.M. on 29 December.

  At the conference on 29 December Mr. Nicholas of the Passport Division made brief oral reference to a large number of items in my record. I prepared an affidavit about these items, and submitted it to the Passport Division on 30 December 1953, together with a letter requesting that the passport be validated in time to permit my departure not later than 2 January 1954, inasmuch as the primary purpose of my trip to India was to attend the Indian Science Congress, 2 to 8 January. On 31 December 1953 I was informed by the Department of State that no action would be taken before 4 January 1954, too late to permit me to fulfill my obligations to the Government of India and the Indian Science Congress Association, and I withdrew the application for validation of my passport.

  The final paragraph of Mrs. Shipley's letter intimates that I should have applied earlier, in order that I might have furnished in detail answers to the allegations of the Passport Division. It is my understanding that I could not apply for validation of my passport for the trip to India until after my return to the United States from the earlier trip, during July and August, when I visited Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, for scientific purposes. I applied for validation of the passport for the trip to India and other countries immediately after my return from Europe. At that time, over three months before the date of our proposed sailing, I offered to provide any additional information that you might desire, and I repeated the offer several times; it was not until thirteen days after the date of our proposed sailing that your Department asked me for any additional information.

  Yours truly,

  Linus Pauling:W

• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms, Inc. amount $8.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: All American Maintenance Company amount $30.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Allan Knight Chalmers amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Alumni Association, C. I. T. amount $4.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Apothecary Shop amount $11.64 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum (Caltech) amount $15.16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Colby Nurseries amount $83.49 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Fashion Cleaners amount $10.96 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Johnny Oyakawa amount $98.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: McBride Animal Hospital amount $17.25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. amount $8.49 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Poppy Cleaners and Dyers amount $21.11 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Save the Redwoods League amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Souther Counties Gas Company amount $33.70 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Co. of California amount $8.19 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Tide Water Associated Oil Company amount $16.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Tuttle Brothers Nurseries amount $10.76 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Robert Dawson Agency amount $184.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Southern California Section of the A. C. S. amount $2.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Arthur Kallet, Director of the Consumers Union to Carl Niemann RE: Reply to letter of June 23, 1954; Consumers Union has decided to award Arthur Miller their fellowship and will mail a check when confirmation from Caltech comes through. [Niemann's letter June 23, 1954; Caltech response July 13, 1954] [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence Box #72.4]
• Letter from Keith J. Laidler to LP RE: Laidler would like to visit Gates and Crellin Laboratories during his upcoming trip West. [Reply Beatrice Wulf June 10, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Science RE: Requesting help in the matter of LP's passport validation. [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Viktor F. Weisskopf, MIT RE: Informing Weisskopf of his problems with the Passport Division and requests any information Weisskopf may have about the operation of the Board of Passport Appeals [Filed under W: Individual Correspondence, Box #434.3]
• Letter from LP to James R. Murphy RE: Requesting Murphy serve as LP's attorney in the matter of attempting to obtain a passport for a trip to India (Dec. 54-March 55) [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to Senator Wayne L. Morse RE: LP encloses two letters to the Secretary of State relating LP's attempts to obtain passports for a trip to India. [Morse's reply June 28, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]
• Letter from LP to the Secretary of State. [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]

  CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  PASADENA 4

  GATES AND CRELLIN LABORATORIES OF CHEMISTRY

  7 June 1954

  The Secretary of State

  Washington 25, D.C.

  Dear Sir:

  In my letters of 11 September 1953 and 16 November 1953 and later letters and telegrams I requested that my passport, No. 698609, be validated to permit my wife and me to make a trip to India and other countries. The passport was never validated for this purpose, and, when it was too late for me to fulfill my obligation of giving scientific talks in the countries, I withdrew the application. The circumstances are discussed in my letter of 5 June 1954 to you.

  My wife and I are now planning to make essentially the same trip, during the period approximately 1 December 1954 to 31 March 1955. I now accordingly request that my passport be validated for this purpose.

  I ask also that action be taken on this application without delay. Six months ago I was scheduled to be the principal speaker at the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabed, and my failure to arrive in India without doubt caused serious disarrangement of the progress of the Congress. I have been invited during three successive years by the Government of India and the Indian Science Congress Association to come to India. I think that it is likely that they will invite me again, but I feel that it is necessary to assure them that I shall be able to be present, and that there will not be a repetition of the interference with their plans that occurred last year.

  The proposed trip is purely for scientific purposes, as described in my letters of 11 September 1953 and 16 November 1953. The itinerary is not yet arranged, and may depend somewhat on invitations to deliver scientific lectures that I have not yet received. In addition to the countries mentioned in my letters of 11 September and 16 November 1953, I wish to have Turkey included. Professor F. Arndt, of the University of Istanbul, Turkey, has told me that the Government of Turkey and the University of Istanbul will probably invite me to give some lectures in this University.

  I shall be glad to provide any additional information that you may desire.

  On 29 December 1953, thirteen days after the scheduled date for my wife and me to leave New York on the trip to India and other countries,

  is early September. I am to address a meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education in Evanaton, Illinois, and shall be there from 7 to 10 September. I could come to Washington during the previous week of the following week, and thus save a significant amount of travel cost as compared with other times. I am also scheduled to address the American Chemical Society in New York on 5 November 1954, but I hope that the passport matter will have been settled before then

  I have kept in touch with Mr. Wirin, who some time ago recommended to me that I reapply for validation of my passport. Also, I have sent copies of my letters of 5 June and 7 June to the Secretary of State to Senator Wayne L. Morse, who took up the matter of the refusal of a passport to me in 1952 in two speeches before the Senate. I enclose a copy of my letter to Senator Morse, and also of my letter to Dr. Bronk, President of the National Academy of Sciences. You will note that I mentioned in these letters that you are my lawyer.

  I shall be in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, from 20 June to 23 June, and in Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, from 24 to 26 June. My secretary in Pasadena may be able to tell you where I am at other times. I expect to be back in Pasadena by 6 July.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Michael Straight. New Republic to LP RE: Encloses issue of New Republic with an editorial pertinent to LP [LP's reply July 20, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from Ralph W. Robertson to LP RE: Enclosing sketch of apparatus again, this time with written explanation of its purpose which has to do with converting sea water into fresh water. [LP's letter May 27, 1954; LP's reply June 15, 1954] [Filed under R: Correspondence 1954, Box #340.19]
• Memorandum from L.A. DuBridge to Robert B. Corey, cc: LP RE: The Committee on Government and Industrial Contracts has approved Corey’s application to the NSF for a grant for support of research on X-ray diffraction studies of crystalline proteins. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.1]
• Newspaper Clipping: "President Fails to Hold Power", Publication Unknown, June 7, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.8]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Scientists Call on Ike for Review", Los Angeles Daily News, June 7, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.9]
• Telegram from Beatrice J. Wulf, Executive Secretary to LP, to Garnet T. Page RE: States the scheduled time of LP's address. [Letter from Page to Wulf June 5, 1954] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.11]

• AHP writes cheque to: Academy of Political Science amount $6.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Dr. Victor C. Hacking amount $15.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Mira Loma Mutual Water Company amount $19.10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Symphony Association amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Bennett Travel Agency amount $290.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Kraus Motor Co. amount $77.54 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: self amount $200.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Duncan S. Ballantine, President, Reed College, to LP RE: Thanks him for the copies of his commencement address. Invites AHP and LP to lunch. [Letter from LP to Ballantine June 5, 1954 [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.10]
• Letter from I. Moyer Hunsberger to LP RE: Thanks for criticism of manuscript of June 3, 1954 [LP's letter June 3, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from LP to Ben May. [May's letter May 17, 1954] [Filed under M: Individual Correspondence, Box #244.5]

  8 June 1954

  Mr. Ben May

  P. O. Box 1186

  Mobile 7, Alabama

  Dear Mr. May:

  I thank you for your letter of 17 May, and your notes to me about Dr. Fleming and about vitamin E.

  Knowing your interest in medicine and medical research, I have decided to write to you about a problem that we are hoping to solve. You know about the work that we have carried out on sickle-cell anemia and related diseases. I have been hoping that we could apply the same method of investigation, involving the new idea about abnormalities of molecules in relation to disease, to some other diseases, possibly to cancer, although as yet I do not have a well-formed plan of attack on cancer. Our new laboratory, which should be ready in about a year and a half, will provide the space for increase of our activities, and some of our financial problems will be taken care of, I hope, by the new Rockefeller grant.

  We have a number of young men with M.D. degrees working in the laboratories all of the time. These are young doctors who have just finished their medical training or their internship, and are getting additional training in the basic sciences, and additional experience in research, in order to prepare them for a career in medical research.

  We have need for a permanent member of our staff who is trained in medicine, and who can serve as adviser to the young M.D.'s who are working here, and to the other members of our staff who are interested in medical problems. He would also be in a position to carry on effective medical research himself. Professor Beadle and I are hoping that some way can be found to finance the appointment of a Professor of Medical Research in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology. His duties would involve joint activities with the Division of the Biological Sciences also.

  I am writing to ask if you could help us to finance the appointment of a Professor of Medical Research. We would, of course, have to offer the man permanent appointment, and the California Institute of Technology does not have funds that would permit this to be done. The salary would have to be a good one - probably $10,000 per year initially - because outstanding medical men have to be reasonably well paid. I estimate that we need an endowment of about $400,000, to cover the salary for the professorship and a minimum amount of support for the man's research.

  Inasmuch as the arrangement with the Rockefeller Foundation is on a matching basis, a gift of $200,000, to endow the professorship, would be matched by an equal amount from the Rockefeller Foundation, and would permit the appointment to be made.

  May I ask what you think of this plan. Would you be interested in endowing a professorship in medical research in this Institute? I am sure that the action would be a really significant one for medical research. You may remember that in the meeting in Washington I talked about this plan, and recommended that the Public Health Service consider it.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Casper Schutte RE: Reply to Schutte's letter of May 18, 1954, answering his further questions about graduate study and work at Caltech. [Letter from Schutte May 18, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. A. McL. Mathieson RE: Reply to Mathieson's letter of May 28, 1954, stating that although LP may be back East that week, Mathieson is welcome to visit the lab. [Mathieson's letter May 28, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from LP to E. M. Johnson, Chancellor of the Telluride Association RE: Reply to Johnson's letter of April 29, 1954, agreeing to serve as a member of the Sidgwick Memorial Fund Committee [Johnson's letter April 29, 1954] [Filed under J: Correspondence 1954, Box #192.20]
• Letter from LP to John R. Van Wazer RE: Encloses reprints of LP's work on bond orbitals and bond energy in elementary phosphorus as well as one on the structure of phosphoric acid and related substances. The work of the nature of the bonds in the phosphorus pentachloride molecule has not been completed and therefore, he does not send a paper on that. [Van Wazer's letterMay 6, 1954] [Filed under V: Individual Correspondence, Box #425.2]
• Letter from LP to Senator Wayne L. Morse RE: Enclosed Reed College commencement address includes mention of Morse and LP hopes he will not object [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter to Mrs. George E. Farrand from LP RE: Expressing sympathy for the death of George Farrand, Member of the Board of Trustees of Caltech. [Filed under F: Individual Correspondence, Box #117.6]
• Memorandum from Robert B. Corey to Miss A.H. Walter, cc: LP RE: Submits 16 copies for an application to the NSF for a grant for support of research on X-ray Diffraction Studies of Crystalline Proteins. [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder 30.1]

• LP writes cheque to: Beatrice J. Wulf amount $50.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to F. T. Wall RE: LP's address in Hanover, New Hampshire so Wall can visit him there [Wall's letter May 7, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Letter from Fowler V. Harper to LP RE: Acknowledgment of contribution to the litigation fund for Dr. John Peters. [LP's letter May 26, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #166.5]
• Letter from LP to P. P. Ewald. [Ewald's letter of June 2, 1954] [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box #7, Folder #6]

  9 June 1954

  Prof. P. P. Eweld, Editor

  Acta Crystallographica

  Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

  99 Livingston Street

  Brooklyn, 1, New York

  Dear Paul:

  Before your letter arrived I had received Palmer's answer. It reads as follows:

  "I have received your letter dated 18 May last concerning the review of 'General Chemistry' in Acta Crystallographica, and I note that you have sent a copy to the Editor, Prof. Ewald.

  "You will understand that, while awaiting any action he may think it proper to take, I cannot enter upon a direct and private correspondence."

  I am sorry that he did not answer my letter because I am curious about the explanation of the points that he has raised, and which I could not understand.

  I thank you for your offer to me, that I write a letter about the review for publication in Acta. I should prefer not to have to take advantage of this offer.

  I feel instead that Dr. Palmer has the ethical duty to publish a statement about the errors in his review.

  For example, he wrote that "The chapters concerned with the compounds of carbon … contain … the surprising statements 'formic acid can be made by distilling ants, … ." This statement about formic acid is, however, correct; for example, the article on formic acid in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th edition, begins with the sentence "Formic acid was first prepared by distilling red ants." I do not understand why the reviewer considers this statement, which occurs in many books on organic chemistry, to be surprising.

  Another example of an erroneous statement in the review is the following: "The classical topics of physical chemistry are treated with as agreeable freshness, which here and there degenerates into imprecision, as in ... the unfortunate choice of the system hydrogen and bromine, to illustrate a photochemical chain reaction on pp. 410-11."

  Prof. Ewald Page 2 9/6/54

  I do not see why the choice of the system hydrogen and bromine to illustrate a photochemical chain reaction is unfortunate. I made the choice after careful consideration. This reaction is discussed as a typical chain reaction in textbooks of photochemistry. Bollefson and Burton, in their "Photochemistry and the Mechanism of Chemical Reactions," New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1942, begin their chapter on typical chain reactions with a discussion of photosynthesis of hydrogen bromide; their first sentence is "The most completely studied reaction which proceeds by a chain mechanism is that of hydrogen and bromine to form hydrogen bromide." The fact that the authors of the standard textbooks on photochemistry have agreed with me in selecting the reaction of hydrogen and bromine as an example of a chain reaction makes it impossible for me to understand why the reviewer found the choice unfortunate.

  I surmise that the reviewer simply made some mistakes, and I think that he should correct them.

  I think also that he should write to me to clarify the other matters mentioned in my letter to him.

  I am sending him a copy of this letter, as my answer to his letter, and am also sending a copy to Dr. Evans.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., to LP . RE: Freeman says that he will send unbound copies of the latest printing, and that they will be shipped on July 1, when the newest printing goes to press. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]

• Letter dictated by LP to K.F. Bonhoeffer. [Letter from K.F. Bonhoeffer April 15, 1954, reply from LP to Bonhoeffer June 10, 1954] [Filed under B:Correspondence 1954, Box #37.21]

  10 June 1954

  Prof. Dr. K. F. Bonhoeffer

  Max-Planck Institut für physikalische Chemie

  Bunsenstrasse 10

  Göttingen, Germany

  Dear Bonhoeffer:

  I thank you very much for your kind letter. I am glad to learn that the new Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft in Frankfurt is going to publish the Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, and that you, Foerster, Jost, and Schwab are going to edit it.

  I should be pleased to be a member of the Advisory Board.

  I am looking forward also to submitting some papers to the journal, at sometime in the future.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Dictated by Linus Pauling

  Signed in his absence:W

• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Keith J. Laidler RE: Informing Laidler LP is out of the lab on a trip now, but that he is welcome to visit the laboratories at any time. [Laidler's letter June 7, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from E. S. McCartney to LP RE: Reply to LP's letter of June 3, 1954; Agrees that LP's dictated paper is of extremely good quality but believes that most people are not that proficient at dictating and a general warning against it should still be made. [LP's letter June 3, 1954] [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from LP to Chong Johng Seun, Korea RE: LP attempts to answer some of Seun's questions from his letter of June 15, 1954, but feels they are too long for him to answer in a letter [Seun's letter June 15, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Kil Sang Lee RE: Reply to Lee' letter of February 20, 1954; provides answers to Lee's questions from LP's text. [Lee's letter February 20, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from LP to Mary D. Alexander, Production Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science RE: LP will submit a brief note to be included as an introduction to the collection of papers to be in published in Proceedings in conjunction with the symposium on nucleic acids. [LP's letter May 17, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to Mary D. Alexander, Production Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences RE: LP submits the manuscript “The Agglutinating and Sensitizing Capacity of Antisera to Sheep Red Cells after Varying Degrees of Photo-Oxidation,” by Albert Tyler, M. Lorraine Fiset, and Robin R.A. Coombs for publication in the Proceedings. [Letter from Alexander to LP June 14, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Henrietta W. Martindale RE: Thanks her for material about Leo Gallagher. [Filed under M: Correspondence 1954, Box #256.5]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP is sending a draft of the first chapter of College Chemistry, Second Edition. He proposes to leave out the stuff on purification of substances and on determination of density. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Newspaper clipping: "This World Today: Would Scientists Explain Science?" by Royce Brier. Details Dr. D. W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences, belief that scientists often neglect to make their information accessible to public understanding. [Filed under B: Individual Correspondence, Box #31.12]

• Letter from J. A. Whieldon, Ohio State University to LP RE: Whieldon would like to visit the Paulings while he is in CA this summer [LP's reply September 8, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from LP to D. F. Fleming RE: Thanks for letter and reprint of article "Are We Moving Toward Fascism?" LP also mentions further trouble he has had with the State Dept. [Fleming's letter May 4, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Dr. Fred J. Allen, Dept. of Chemistry, Purdue University. [Letter of response from Dr. Fred J. Allen June 16, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3]

  11 June 1954

  Dr. Fred Allen

  Department of Chemistry

  Purdue University

  Lafayette, Indiana

  Dear Fred:

  Thanks very much for your good letter of 8 May. I am glad to have the news of you and your family. Ava Helen and I hope that Mrs. Allen has a fine trip to Alaska by bus.

  We are going to make quite a long auto trip this summer, beginning day after tomorrow. Ava Helen and I are driving to Portland, where I am to give the Commencement address at Reed College on Sunday. Then we are starting off on Monday with Linda accompanying us. We are driving to Toronto, then to Hanover, New Hampshire, and then back home. Perhaps Linda will not come home with us, but take the plane from Toronto to England. She is planning to stay in Cambridge for a year, with Peter, who is still working toward his Ph.D. there. He is working on the structure of myoglobin, as determined by x-ray diffraction.

  I am going to prepare a second edition of COLLEGE CHEMISTRY this summer, and I am very glad to have your comments on the second edition of GENERAL CHEMISTRY. I think that I shall change my discussion of kinds of atoms - thanks very much for your remarks.

  I believe that I shall put in a little more about colloids, but not very much more.

  As to water-cooling of blast furnaces, I wish that you would tell me what I should say. I am afraid that I do not know what the situation is.

  Thanks also for the comment about the melting point of arsenic.

  Here is a question that I should like to ask you about COLLEGE CHEMISTRY. It seems to me that there is definitely too

  Dr. Allen -2- 11/6/54

  much material in the book, and that something should be cut out. I have asked a number of people about this matter, and so far no one has given me a definite answer as to what should be cut out. What sections do you think should be removed?

  I am going to try to rewrite parts of the book in simpler language. I judge that students find it a hard book to read.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Dictated by Linus Pauling Signed in his absence:W

• Letter from LP to Prof. Milton Orchin RE: Reply to Orchin's proposed structures of iron carbonyls. [Letter from Orchin May 10, 1954] [Filed under O: Correspondence 1954, Box #300.16]
• Letter from Otto K. Behrens to Robert Corey, cc: LP RE: Behrens' lab has been unable to repeat the process to create large glucagon crystals, but will continue efforts and send crystals to Caltech, ASAP. [Corey's letter May 20, 1954; Reply June 15, 1954] [Filed under E: Organizational Correspondence (Eli Lilly & Company, Box #111.4]
• Letter from P. P. Ewald to Dr. W. G. Palmer RE: Palmer's response (June 1, 1954) to LP's letter of (May 18, 1954); Acta Crystallographica would be glad to facilitate a formal exchange of letters to the editor. He believes it a matter of courtesy for Palmer to address LP's concerns in private or public correspondence. [LP's letter May 18, 1954, Palmer's letter June 1, 1954, Ewald's letter of June 2, 1954] [Filed under A: Organizational Correspondence, Acta Crystallographica, Box # 7]
• Note from Richard Wistar to LP RE: Thanking LP for his nomination of Lars Onsager for the Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal [LP's letter June 2, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Elizabeth Gillette amount $10.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Alfred Gierer, MIT to LP RE: Gierer would like to visit Pasadena during his stay in the U.S. to discuss protein structure with LP. [LP's reply July 20, 1954] [Filed under G Correspondence 1954, Box #140.18]
• Letter from Norris W. Rakestraw, Editor, Journal of Chemical Education RE: Requesting ideas on how to best present a series of review articles on "Chemical Constitution and Biological Activity;"also asks if LP would be willing to write a review for such a series. [LP reply July 26, 1954] [Filed under J: Organizational Correspondence, Box #191.4]

• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: LP has asked Wulf to return the review of General Chemistry sent to Freeman by Mizushima. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1953b.1]
• Letter from William N. Lacey, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Caltech to Arthur Kallet, Director of Consumers Union RE: Reply to letter of July 7, 1954 accepting the fellowship on behalf Arthur Miller. [Kallet's letter July 7, 1954] [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence Box #72.4]
• Manuscript, Typescript, Correspondence, Program: "Science as a Cultural Subject," Commencement Address, Reed College, Portland, Oregon. [LP Speeches 1954s.10]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Reed to Hear Caltech Man", Portland Oregonian, June 13, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.52]
• Program: Reed College, Forty-Sixth Commencement Exercises, June 13, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.53]

• Article: "Oppenheimer Found Loyal, Clearance Denied", Chemical and Engineering News, June 14, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.10]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Executive Secretary, to David R. Goddard, Society of Growth and Development, University of Pennsylvania, RE: Informs that there is a possibility that Linda Pauling will accompany LP and AHP to the meeting, asks that a reservation be made for her. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.12]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Sam Naiditch RE: LP lists job openings that might interest Naiditch, in response to Naiditch's query. [Letter from Naiditch June 14, 1954] [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #287.21]
• Letter from LP to Phillip L. Adams. [Letter from Phillip L. Adams to LP April 25, 1954 reply from LP to Adams June 14, 1954] [Filed A: Correspondence 1954, Box #12.20]

  14 June 1954

  Mr. Phillip L. Adams

  26 rue d'Edimbourg

  Paris 8

  France

  Dear Mr. Adams:

  I have been interested to read your letter of 25 April, and I have thought about it several times, before deciding how to answer it.

  I am glad that you are interested in the problem of the nature of life, in a broad sense. I have the feeling, from your letter, that you are interested in it now in too broad a sense, and that it would be wise for you to decide to begin by restricting your interest, and then later to broaden it. You have referred to almost everything in the world, in your letter. Of course, you state that total knowledge is impossible, and apparently recognize that you will have to pick a somewhat limited objective, and work toward it.

  I have formed the opinion that you are really getting around to deciding that you should be a scholar and a teacher. If you do decide to become a teacher, then you will have the opportunity to devote your life to helping to answer your fundamental question, what is life?

  I think that I would advise you to try to decide now what field you would prefer to specialize in - what field of knowledge you would like to learn thoroughly, and teach. This would, presumably, then be the field, bearing on the nature of life, that you first would study intensively.

  Have you been interested in biology? With the scientific background that you have, perhaps you should plan to become a biologist. I think that the biologists are making great progress in the attack on the problem of the nature of life. Of course, during recent years chemists have been working on the same problems. There is a new field, that of molecular biology, that is now being developed, in considerable part through the work of chemists. I enclose a reprint of a paper of mine, on the hemoglobin molecule in health and disease, which will give you some idea about this field.

  If you want a superficial knowledge of biological work in relation to the question of the nature of life, then I think that you can start out by reading articles in the issues of the Scientific American that have appeared during recent years. I do not think, however, that these rather

  Mr. Adams -2- 14/6/54

  popular articles will do the job that you want done.

  I am leaving Pasadena in two days, and I shall be gone for a month. After my return, I should be glad to write to you again, and answer any questions that may have arisen because of this letter. I cannot recommend a school or college to you at the present time - I need to have a better idea about your plans.

  Sincerely yours,

  Dictated by Linus Pauling

  Signed in his absence:W

• Letter from LP to William K. Viertel RE: Reply to his letter of May 8, 1954. LP encloses copy of letter that he wrote to Prof. Farrington Daniels, president of the ACS at the time when Mme. Joliot-Curie's application for membership was denied, to express his views on the matter. [Viertel's letter May 8, 1954] [Filed under V: Correspondence 1954, Box #427.14]
• Letter from LP's Executive Secretary to Dr. Garnet T. Page, M. C. I. C., The Chemical Institute of Canada, RE: Informs that LP accepts the invitation to sit at the head table at the luncheon. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s. 11]
• Letter from Martin Kilpatrick, Illinois Institute of Technology to LP RE: Asking if LP would be able to talk with Danish researcher Flemming Woldbye during his tour of CA [Reply Beatrice Wulf June 17, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from Mary D. Alexander, Production Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences RE: Acknowledging the receipt of the article "Some Relations between DNA and RNA" by Alexander Rich and J. D. Watson. [Letter from LP May 7, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Mary D. Alexander, Production Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences RE: Acknowledging the receipt of the article "The Agglutinating and Sensitizing Capacity of Antisera to Sheep Red Cells after Varying Degrees of Photo-Oxidation" by Alvert Tyler, M. Lorraine Fiset and Robin R. A. Coombs. [Letter from LP May 7, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from T. S. Work to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter of June 2, 1954 and will be in Pasadena 8-3 through August 5, 1954 [Letter from LP June 2, 1954; Reply from Beatrice Wulf June 22, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Newspaper Article: "Reed Commencement Speaker Notes Lack of Clear Thinking in Oppenheimer Case," The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon [LP Newspaper Clipping 1954n.6]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Reed Commencement Speaker Notes Lack of Clear Thinking in Oppenheimer Case", Portland Oregonian, June 14, 1954. Newspaper Clipping: "Scientist Raps Oppenheimer Ban", Publication Unknown, June 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.53]

• Letter from Chong Johng Seun, Korea to LP RE: Seun, a graduate student in Korea, writes LP (because a classmate has received a letter from him previously) about several questions and theories he has pertaining to physical chemistry [LP's reply June 10, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Louis B. Slichter, UCLA RE: Accepting invitation to the Conference on Anomalous Permanent Magnetization of Rocks [Letter from Slichter June 4, 1954 [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to H. Hagg, University of Uppsala, RE: LP thanks Hagg for his letter and especially for the errors Hagg pointed out in his textbooks. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]
• Letter from LP to Linus Pauling, Jr. [LP Biographical: Box 5.037, Folder 37.7].

  15 June 1954

  Dear Linus and Anita:

  Mama and I are leaving in an hour or so on our trip. We are taking the Riley. I have just got two new tires, so that all four tires are new, and the engine has been worked over by Kraus. We are driving to Portland by way of Owens Valley and Reno -- we have never gone that way before, although we have covered a good bit of the route, in separate sections. Then we shall take Linda with us, stopping in Spokane to see Aunt Elizabeth, on Monday, the day after Commencement. We are to be in Toronto on Sunday 20 June. Probably Linda will take the plane from Toronto to England.

  I am not sure what the arrangements are about your car. We do not want Crellin to have a car in Portland. He has spent too much of his time this year running around the countryside, and we have told him that he is not to have a car.

  I have just written a letter to Max and Daphne Mason, asking them to telephone you when they arrive in Honolulu. I am sure that you would like to see them. My understanding is that they will stay there for a month, with President Hard. You no doubt know him, from Pomona days. He is to be lecturing at the University.

  I have not seen Max Mason for several months. He has not been well during recent years, but I judge that both he and Daphne are feeling better now. I consider him to be one of my best friends, and I have great admiration for him. He was professor of mathematical physics or mathematics in Wisconsin, then president of the University of Chicago, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and then, for a number of years, in the California Institute of Technology, where he served as chairman of the Observatory Council, in the building of the 200-inch telescope.

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

  Dictated on 9 June by Linus Pauling

  Signed in his absence:W

• Letter from LP to Ralph W. Robertson RE: LP believes that Robertson's proposed method of converting sea water to fresh water is too expensive [Letter from Robertson June 7, 1954] [Filed under R: Correspondence 1954, Box #340.19]
• Letter from Robert B. Corey to Otto K. Behrens, cc: LP RE: Reply to Behrens' notification of June 11, 1954 that he is thus far unable to reproduce large glucagon crystals; requests that Behrens give notification before sending any crystals to Caltech to avoid loss of materials. [Behrens' letter June 11, 1954] [Filed under E: Organizational Correspondence (Eli Lilly & Company, Box #111.4]
• Letter from Victor A. Lewinson to LP RE: Informing LP that he has taken a position with the National Research Council in Washington and is no longer on the job market. [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Letter from Warren M. Sperry, American Chemical Society's New York Section, to LP RE: Discusses the schedule for his speaking event and asks for a photo and biographical sketch. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1954s.17]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Dr. Pauling Hits Majority Report on Dr. Oppenheimer," Pasadena (California) Star-News [LP Newspaper Clipping 1954n.7 ]

• LP's reply: He does not believe Dr. Jones's point sufficient reason to publish the paper.
• Letter from Arthur C. Bond, Assistant Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, to LP RE: Jones and Colton's manuscript "Pauling's Theory of Intermetallic Cpds..." resent for evaluation based on the point of Dr. Jones that the books by Wells and Moeller do not discuss the subject of the paper adequately.
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Edwards Brothers RE: Enclosed three LP publications to be reproduced and bound, requests estimates. [Letter July 2, 1954]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Executive Secretary to LP, to Mrs. Helen Parker, Edwards Brothers, Inc., RE: Sends three of LP's publications which she would like reproduced and bound in one reprint. [Letter from Parker to Wulf July 7, 1954] [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.020, Folder #20.5]
• Letter from Dr. Fred J. Allen to LP RE: Personal letter detailing family life, children, trips, etc [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3]
• Letter from Dr. Fred J. Allen to LP RE: writes in response of LP's letter of June 11, 1954 regarding the second edition of College Chemistry, refers to various textbook writers, incl. Deming, King, Caldwell. Finds little to be deleted from College Chemistry; provides info on Blast Furnace cooling, mentions diagrams of such in other texts. Jokes he may finish his article "The Unwarranted Superlative," prompted by excessive presence of such in College Chemistry. [Letter from LP to Dr. Fred J. Allen June 11, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: (Allen, Fred 1924-1969) Box #5.3]
• Letter from Dr. Heinrich Heesch to LP RE: Details Heesch's map color theorem; he has just finished a revision of his work on this and is considering publishing it. [LP's reply September 9, 1954] [Filed under H Correspondence 1954, Box #153.2]
• Letter from Heinrich (Germany) to AHP RE: Regrets that he has not replied to Christmas greeting sooner, but has been occupied with mathematical work. Sends AHP and family best regards. [Filed under AHP: Box 1.001, Folder 1.2]
• Letter from J. W. Parcell, Branch Manager, Curtis Circulation Company to LP RE: Calls LP's attention to enclosed editorial from the Saturday Evening Post, "McCarran Act Will Bar No Genuine Visiting Scientists" (June 19, 1954) [LP's reply July 19, 1954] [LP Biographical: Box 2.035, Folder 35.11]
• Letter from Louis C.W. Baker to LP RE: Inquiry into whether the same techniques applied to 9-molybdomanganate ion have been applied on other heteropoly and isopoly ions. Request for any materials discussing such things. Lots of questions about possible other bonds for 9-molybdomanganate. [Reply from LP to Baker July 26, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from Margaret Cooper, W.H. Freeman and Co., to Beatrice Wulf, RE: Freeman wants Cooper to convey his thanks for the Japanese review Wulf sent. He was also very glad to receive Chapter 1 of College Chemistry and the German reviews of General Chemistry. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1955b.1]

• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Martin Kilpatrick RE: LP is away but should be back in time to meet with Flemming Woldbye when he is in Pasadena [Kilpatrick's letter June 14, 1954; Woldbye's reply July 8, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter to LP from Harold W. Stoke, University of Washington RE: Requesting reprints of LP's "Use of Propositions in Examinations for the Doctor's Degree" as he would like to try LP's suggestion in dealing with graduate students at UW [LP's reply July 30, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Caltech Submits Plans for New Laboratory", Star-News, June 14, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #1.024, Folder #24.5]

• Letter from A. J. Carlson, University of Chicago to LP RE: Thanking LP for a copy of his paper "The World Problem and the Hydrogen Bomb" which Carlson believes needs to be published in a magazine with large circulation like The Saturday Evening Post. [Filed under LP Safe: Box 2.006, Folder 6.96]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to W. H. Freeman RE: She sends two letters of criticism dictated by LP before he left on his trip concerning the book by Oginsky and Umbreit; Two letters enclosed. [Freeman's reply June 22, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
• Letter from Jean Ricard to LP RE: Chimie Generale (General Chemistry) [Letter written in French] [Filed under LP Safe: Box 2.006, Folder 6.94]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. F. Sheehan. [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]

  18 June 1954

  Dr. W. F. Sheehan, Jr.

  268 Euclid Avenue

  Oakland 10, Calif.

  Dear Dr. Sheehan:

  We think that you will get an order blank from the Journal of Chemical Physics. If so, please send it directly to Mrs. Arietta Townsend in our laboratories. I have spoken to Verner about the number of copies required and he felt that it was not necessary to order more than the 100 free reprints which are sent when the publication charge of $15 is paid by the Institute. If, however, you think there will be quite a demand for reprints, we can order 50 additional. In any case, the order should go through our office.

  It would be nice to see you down this way sometime.

  Sincerely yours,

  W

  Encl

• Abstract, Correspondence, Press Release: The Significance of Molecular Structure to Biology, Leroy Egerton Westman Memorial Lecture, Toronto [LP Speeches 1954s.11]
• Article: "Oppenheimer Case", Chemical and Engineering News, June 21, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.11]
• Letter from Dennis Flanagan, editor of Scientific American to LP RE: Enclosed advance copy of July issue containing article by LP and associates. [Reply Beatrice Wulf July 2, 1954] [Filed under S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #374.9]
• Letter from Duane Roller, Editor of Science RE: Requesting LP review enclosed paper by Chernoff et al. [Telegram from Roller July 14, 1954] [Filed under S: Organizational Correspondence, Box #374.9]
• Letter from J.M. Ellis, National Institutes of Health to LP RE: Acknowledges receipt of the application for a PHS grant, entitled “Investigations of the Chemistry of Blood.” It has been assigned the reference number RG-4276 and final notification will be sent around November 1, 1954. [Filed under LP Science: (United States Public Health Service: Assorted Grants, 1954-1964), Box #14.042, Folder 42.1]
• Letter from John H. Lawrence, UC Berkeley to LP RE: Requesting reference for Dr. Myron Pollycove. [LP reply June 20, 1954] [Filed under L Correspondence 1954, Box #230.20]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Urges Study of Abnormal Molecules", Telegram, June 21, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.54]
• Press Release: "A recent development in medical research in the discovery that some diseases are the result of the genetically-controlled manufacture of protein molecules with abnormal structure." The Chemical Institute of Canada, [LP Newspaper Clipping 1954n.8]
• Program: The Chemical Institute of Canada, 37^th Annual Conference, June 21-23, 1954. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 6.006, Folder 6.58]

• AHP writes cheque to: T. Easton & Co. Amount $61.17 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• AHP writes cheque to: T. Eaton & Co. Amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Royal York amount $200.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. T. S. Work RE: Wulf has confirmed reservations at the Athenaeum for Work's visit [Work's letter June 14, 1954; Work's reply July 13, 1954] [Filed under W: Correspondence 1954, Box #444.2]
• Letter from W. H. Freeman to LP RE: Thanks LP for his criticism on Oginsky and Umbreit. [LP's letter June 18, 1954] [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]

• Article: "AEC Releases Oppenheimer Transcript", F.A.S. Newsletter, June 23, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.2]
• LP writes cheque to: Henry Birks and Son amount $105.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: Royal York amount $92.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP writes cheque to: T. Eaton & Co. amount $25.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• LP's reply: The manuscript will be suitable for publication if cut to 1/3 of its current length.
• Letter from Carl Niemann to Theodore Shedlovsky RE: reply to Shedlovsky's offer of a fellowship with Consumers Union of May 18, 1954; he proposes Arthur Miller as a candidate for a fellowship. [Shedlovsky's letter May 18, 1954; LP's letter June 2, 1954; Reply from Consumers Union July 7, 1954] [Filed under C: General Correspondence Box #72.4]
• Letter from Eugene Yourch to LP RE: Requesting information on polymerization to complete a project for the Westinghouse Science Talent Search [LP's Reply July 26, 1954] [Filed under Y: Correspondence 1954, Box #446]
• Letter from G. Bird to LP RE: Thank you note for donation of revised "General Chemistry" to the Joint Library Committee. [Filed under C: Correspondence, 1954 Box #74.22].
• Letter from K.F. Bonhoeffer to LP RE: Thank you for agreeing to be on the Advisory Board for Zeitschrift fur Physikalishe Chemie (Journal of Physical Chemistry). Letter in German. [Letter from LP to Bonhoeffer June 10, 1954, reply from Bonhoeffer to LP June 23, 1954] [Filed A: Correspondence 1954, Box #12.20].
• Letter from W. Albert Noyes, Jr., Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry to LP RE: Huggins' manuscript, "The Structure of Amorphous Materials" enclosed for evaluation.

• LP Note to Self RE: Electronic Resonance and Nuclear Configuration [Filed under LP Science: (LP Notes to Self: Scientific, 1941, 1945-1992), Box #10.003, Folder 3.7]
• Memo from the acting Dean of Faculty RF Bacher to LP RE: Request for a list of the faculty working in LP's division during 1953-54 who are carrying on in postdoctoral work. Please use a format like the one in the example attached. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]

• Correspondence, Notes, Program: Duplication of Molecules, Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Growth and Human Development, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [LP Speeches 1954s.12]
• Letter from Felix Friedberg to LP RE: Invitation to LP to prepare a short discussion on "Proteins" for the a revision of the Dictionary of Biochemistry. [LP's reply July 26, 1954] [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]

• Hotel receipt: LP checks into Hanover Inn, New Hampshire [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder 1.12]

• LP writes cheque to: Hanover Inn amount $12.30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]

• Article: "Hydrogen Bomb Story Unfolds", Chemical and Engineering News, June 28, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.13]
• Letter from A. R. Todd to LP RE: Declining LP's invitation to lecture at Caltech during the fall term [LP's letterJune 2, 1954; LP's reply July 26, 1954] [Filed under T: Individual Correspondence, Box #407.6]
• Letter from Mary D. Alexander, Production Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences RE: Acknowledging the receipt of LP's Introduction to the Symposium on the Structure and Function of Nucleic Acids. [Letter from LP June 10, 1954] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1952-1954), Box #14.020, Folder 20.3]
• Letter from Wayne Morse, U. S. Senate Committee on Public Works to LP RE: Thanks LP for letters of June 7 and 8; notes LP's comments concerning problems with Passport Division and thanks him for the "kind references" in the Reed College commencement address. [LP Biographical: Box 2.003, Folder 3.4]

• Hotel receipt: LP checks out of the Royal York Hotel, Toronto [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.001, Folder 1.12]
• LP writes cheque to: Royal York Hotel amount $200.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Mrs. G. Bluemel to the California Institute of Technology RE: There is an enclosed piece of carpet that Mrs. Bluemel would like analyzed for the wool content. Requests for some testing to be done. [Letter from Mrs. Bluemel to Caltech June 29, 1954, reply from Gates and Crellin Laboratories June 30, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from Richard L. Kenyon to LP RE: Invitation to write a "Perspectives" article for the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, an example of this section was enclosed [LP's reply July 26, 1954] [Filed under A: Correspondence 1954, Box #12.20].

• LP writes cheque to: Ensign Motors Ltd. amount $595.39 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
• Letter from Gates and Crellin Laboratories to Mrs. G. Bluemel RE: The lab is unable to do these kinds of tests. Please talk to a commercial chemist, one can be found in the phone book. [Letter from Mrs. Bluemel to Caltech June 29, 1954, reply from Gates and Crellin Laboratories June 30, 1954] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
• Letter from John Schuyten to LP RE: Requests information about teaching job openings as he has been fired for refusing to testify about past associations and beliefs. Resume enclosed [LP's reply September 1, 1954] [Filed under S: Correspondence 1954, Box #379.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. M. S. Thacker. [Filed under T: Correspondence 1954, Box #410.19]

  30 June 1954

  Dr. M. S. Thacker

  Indian Institute of Science

  Bangalore 3

  India

  Dear Dr. Thacker:

  I am very pleased with the prospect that Dr. Rafael Pasternak may come to India, as Professor of Chemistry. He is really a fine man.

  Also, I am writing to tell you about two other men whom I know well, who are hoping to be able to come to India, with their families, and to make permanent careers in medicine, of such a nature as to permit them to contribute more to the welfare of humanity than they are able to under their present circumstances. I have written Dr. Sundaram about these men, Dr. Richard Lippman and Dr. Thomas Perry. I enclose a copy of my letter about Dr. Perry. Perhaps Dr. Sundaram has already sent you the information about Dr. Lippman.

  Let me say here that I consider Dr. Lippman to be the leading authority on nephritis and related diseases of the kidney in the United States of America. He is a young man, enthusiastic about medicine and medical research. I feel that both he and Dr. Perry would fit into the new Institute for Medical Research in New Delhi, and I hope that serious consideration can be given to the possibility of arranging for appointments for them.

  If you would like to have more information from me about either of these men, or about Dr. Pasternak, please let me know.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Newspaper Clipping: "Oppenheimer Loses Appeal to A.E.C., 4 to 1", New York Times, June 30, 1954. [LP Biographical: Box 2.037, Folder 37.14]