November 14, 1955 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Hotel receipt: The Woodner, Washington DC [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.1]

Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Caltech News Bureau, Institute Calendar, to LP RE: Requests that Dr. John Leo Abernethy be added to their mailing list. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #12.21]

Letter from Beatrice Wulf, Secretary to LP, to Dr. Masao Kotani, Physics Dept., University of Tokyo, RE: Sorry to say that they no longer have reprints of the two articles requested. Suggests that Kotani write directly to the publishers for the volumes in which these were published. Gives information regarding ordering. LP will be pleased to see Kotani in Pasadena next month. As LP will be away for a few days in December, requests that Kotani inform them of the exact date of his arrival. [Letter from Kotani September 10, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1936-1956), #200.20]

Letter from Dael Wolfle, Administrative Secretary, Science, to LP RE: Thanks LP for the manuscript of his Nobel lecture. Pleased to have it for publication in Science. Had some confusion amongst the editors; meant to have requested it sooner. Will write to the Nobel Committee to obtain permission to publish the lecture. [Letter from LP to Wolfle October 22, 1955, Letter from Wolfle to LP December 5, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Organizational Correspondence. (Sa - Sc)), #374.6]

Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to LP RE: LP has been referenced by four applicants this year so they send LP the applicants' papers. [Letter from LP to Moe November 21, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.3]

Letter from LP [Signed by Beatrice Wulf] to B. R. Stanerson, American Chemical Society, RE: Apologizes for the confusion and writes that Professor G. Bergman is no longer the faculty sponsor the ACS Student Affiliate and Professor Norman Davidson has taken over his job. Writes that LP did not appoint anyone to specifically try to interest seniors and graduate students in ACS membership, but Professor Davidson has said that he will do what he can to encourage membership in the ACS. [Letter from Stanerson to LP, October 25, 1955] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society: Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder #6.4]

Letter from LP to Dr. Lawrence A. Williams, Thatcher Medical Center, Pasadena, California, RE: Calls Williams's attention to C.A. Donzalski and V.C. Morgan's article "Dermatomyositis: Diagnostic Features and Therapeutic Pitfalls," published in the September 1955 issue of the American Journal of Medicine. The authors describe two cases, in one of which there was no dermatitis. Thought that this might interest Williams. [Letter from Williams to LP November 30, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), #444.3]

Letter from Peter Pauling to LP RE: Peter writes to discuss his future research interests and to enlish LP's assistance in a practical joke. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.2]

14 November 1955

Dear Daddy,

Thank you for your letter of the 9^th. I should like to stay in Europe next year but not here. There would be very little chance for me to stay with Kendrew; he is tired of me and I would like to branch out. I could go to the R.I. with Bragg. I am interested in bacterial flagella and in viruses. Don Kasper has obtained photographs of Bushy Stunt Virus showing a 5 fold axis & a 3 fold axis point group 532 consequently. Perhaps I should go to Stockholm, Weibull will be there & he can prepare flagella, (you met him in Upsalla, short & stocky in the room beneath Tiselius), Sjstrand takes the world's best thin section electron micrographs & Theorell. I think that I should be able to get a fellowship if I have a suitable experiment I wish to do.

I shall modify your account. I owe you $15 from the summer's loan, which should be subtracted from your account. I was going to trade the $15 for the phone call by forgetting both & pay you for the books, but I shall pay the $15 instead.

Please ring up M. Delbrück & ask him about an RNA structure by Rundle in Iowa. M. Delbrück has written Alex a letter about it. It is a beautiful practical joke and worked extremely well. Francis (Crick) & Alex were very worried & rang Washington D.C. (Jack Dunitz) to find out about it.

Much love,

Peter

PS. I shall apply for a NSF & others.

Letter from Professor Joseph B. Platt, Physics Dept., University of Rochester, to LP RE: Thanks LP for his gracious note on the crystal structure of the micas. Their most immediate interest was to find out that wavelength that LP used and so they are grateful for this information. They can probably make their own guess on an appropriate Debye temperature. Now they will make their own measurements on the mosaic crystal coefficients for the specimens of mica that they will be using. [Letter from LP to Platt November 10, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1953-1959), #313.3]

Letter from Robert W. McKinney, Corresponding Secretary, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Chemistry Dept., University of Kansas, to LP RE: May 7 would be satisfactory for LP's lecture. Another date could also be arranged. Wonders if LP has a preference regarding the subject or if they can choose between several possible subjects. [Letters from LP to McKinney November 10, 1955, November 21, 1955] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.22]

Newspaper Clipping: "Caltech Annual Report Shows Banner Year from All Angles," Pasadena (California) Star-News, November 14, 1955. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1951-1955), Box #6.006, Folder #6.164]

Press Release: "Pasadena, California," News Bureau, California Institute of Technology, November 14, 1955. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1951-1955), Box #6.006, Folder #6.165]

Proposed Itinerary: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.1]

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