Activity Listings
- Check from AHP to Women's International League for Peace and Freedom for $8.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
- Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to L. Taylor, Parsons Engineering Co., RE: Considering Helen York for a secretarial position at Gates and Crellin. York said that she worked at the Parsons Engineering Co. and has given Taylor's name as a reference. Requests information about York's abilities and personality. [Letter from Wulf to Perkins October 18, 1955, Letter from Wulf to York November 9, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Y: Correspondence, 1938-1977), #462.11]
- Letter from Dr. Allen Lein, Medical School, Northwestern University, to LP RE: Encloses the carbon copy of the manuscript which LP sent him last week. Has marked a few minor suggestions. Wonders whether the last paragraph should be omitted. Suggests including a statement explaining the reason for using weighted equilibrium constants. Wonders if they should mention the recent paper by George and Hanania. The manuscript may be submitted without being sent again to Lein. [Letter from LP to Lein October 6, 1955, Letter from Lein to LP October 27, 1955] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1955a.8]
- Letter from LP to Benjamin Dreyfus, Dreyfus and McTernan, Attorneys at Law, RE: Regrets that he is unable to accept the invitation to speak at the dinner that Dreyfus is planning for the National Lawyers Guild. Has already committed himself to a heavy schedule for the next few months. [Letter from Dreyfus to LP October 10, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence), #287.22]
- Letter from LP to Dennis Flanagan, Editor, Scientific American, RE: Professor Corey and LP were interested to see the article on Die Struktur der Proteinmolekule, with the two of them given as authors, published in Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau. The article is essentially a translation of the one published a year ago in Scientific American. Wonders if Scientific American gave Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau permission to translate and publish the article, as well as to leave Roger Hayward's name off the list of authors. [Letter from Piel to LP November 1, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Organizational Correspondence. (Sa - Sc)), #374.9]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Howard R. Bierman, Division of Research, City of Hope Medical Center, RE: Approves of the application for a research grant on the effects of yttrium fluoride and zirconium phosphate. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Organizational Correspondence. (Ch - Ci)), #70.9]
- Letter from LP to Dr. John I. Nurnberger, Research Laboratories, Institute of Living. [Letter from Nurnberger to LP October 12, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence), #287.22]
21 October 1955
Dr. John I. Nurnberger
Institute of Living
200 Retreat Avenue
Dear Dr. Nurnberger:
In answer to your letter of 12 October, I must say that I do not think that it would [be] wise for you to reproduce the figures from the paper that Dr. Corey and I published on a proposed structure for the nucleic acids, 1953, because I am sure that our proposed structure is wrong. Immediately after our paper appeared, Watson and Crick, working in the Cavendish Laboratory in England, and stimulated by our results and by the availability of better x-ray photographs of the nucleic acids than had ever been made before (these were prepared by Wilkins in the University of London), proposed another structure, which everyone has accepted as far more likely to be correct. I myself think that it is probable that the Watson and Crick structure is the right one, and I think that our structure might as well be ignored.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling:W
- Letter from LP to Susan Frazier, Administrative Secretary, American Heart Association, Inc., RE: Enclosed are reports on Dr. Robert Harris Maybury and Dr. Richard S. Schweet, candidates for Established Investigatorships of the Heart Association. Regretfully notes that the information did not arrive in time for LP to interview Dr. Maybury and prepare a report before a setting out on a trip to which he was committed. Hopes that his report is not too late to be useful. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #12.21]
- Letter from LP to Valerie Cowie, Galton Laboratory, University College London, RE: Thanks for the letter and the reprints. States they have just begun research and probably will not do anything with hair color. [Letter from Cowie to LP September 13, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.13]
- Letter from Professor S. Mizushima, Chemistry Dept., University of Tokyo, to LP and AHP RE: Thanks LP and AHP for their kind hospitality. Met Dr. and Mrs. Huggins in Honolulu and flew together to Tokyo; they will stay in Japan for a year. Professor Lecomte is visiting for a few weeks. The manuscript that LP gave Mizushima has been translated and will be published very soon. Requests that LP clarify a few points in the manuscript. [Letter from Mizushima to Wulf September 16, 1955, Letter from LP to Mizushima October 26, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Individual Correspondence. (Mills - Morgan)), #248.6]
- Telegram from LP to Dr. Orr E. Reynolds, Office of Naval Research, RE: Requests that Reynolds make a reservation beginning October 27 at the conference hotel. Requests a telegram when the reservation has been made. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1955s.24]
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