Letter from Linus Pauling to John R. Pierce. November 7, 1955. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Article: "Theorell Awarded Nobel Prize," Chemical and Engineering News. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1955a.10]
• Check from AHP to American Medical Center for Burma for $3.75. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
• Check from AHP to McBride Animal Hospital for $61.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Pasadena Community Chest for $15.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1]
• Check from AHP to R. Walbridge Pool Company for $27.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Tracy Cesspool Service for $235.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1954-February 1956), Box #4.023, Folder #23.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960), Box #4.075, Folder #75.5]
• Letter from Charles M. Carpenter, M.D., Chairman, Research Advisory Committee, to LP RE: Announces next meeting of the City of Hope Research Advisory Committee. The National Scientific Council meeting will also be held on that date in the same city. Doctors Aub, Cowdry, and Womack will be at the Research Advisory Committee meeting also. Provides agenda for meeting. Requests that LP return RSVP card. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Organizational Correspondence. (Ch - Ci)), #70.9]
• Letter from Dr. John Leo Abernethy, Physical Sciences Dept., California State Polytechnic College, to LP RE: Requests to be added to Caltech News Bureau mailing list and to demonstration lecture program because he has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Education. It will be his duty to find news to fill the two pages allotted to the Pacific Southwest Association of Chemistry Teachers. Requests news material of interest to chemistry teachers to be sent to him. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #12.21]
• Letter from LP to Dr. John R. Pierce, Bell Telephone Laboratories. [Letter from Pierce to LP November 17, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1953-1959), #313.3]

  7 November 1955

  Dr. John R. Pierce

  Bell Telephone Laboratories

  Murray Hill, New Jersey

  Dear John:

  I am writing in part to ask how your work as a science fiction author is progressing. It has been a rather long time since I have read a story by you - it seems to me to be several years, although I may be wrong about this. I remember reading an article not very long ago. I think it was about the problem of communication between the moon and the earth. I still read a good bit of science fiction, but I have never been able to settle down to trying to write a story.

  Things are going along well in the chemistry laboratories here. We have a new building, or, rather, half of a new building. The Norman Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology has just been completed, and Professor Corey and some other members of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering will soon move into it. I too am planning to move over, because I have become more and more interested in the application of chemistry to problems of biology and medicine.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Rev. Joseph A. Duke, S.J., Chairman, Chemistry Dept., Wheeling College, RE: Duke's letter escaped LP's attention and so he did not arrange to meet with Duke while in Washington. Wonders if Duke would care to write to him regarding plans for the development of the chemistry department at Georgetown University. LP is deeply interested in the subject of chemical education. Pleased that his books are being well-received in Duke's classes. [Letter from Duke to LP October 18, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1936-1959)), #98.20]
• Letter from Linus Pauling, Jr. to LP, RE: Says that everything is getting alone well there and Ramona and the boys are growing fast. Tells him that he and Anita have given instructions for the transfer of $50,000 of stock to Caltech and that LP will receive notice of its arrival. Encloses a monograph on phenylketonuria by Richard Holder. Thanks LP and AHP for the flowers they sent to Anita. [Filed under LP Personal Safe, Drawer #2, Folder #2.013]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to LP RE: Peter writes to request that his father send him a copy of a grant proposal and also provide a recommendation for the work being done by the MRC Unit in Professor Mott's laboratory. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.2]

  Todd Corey "No one else in the world is anywhere near them"

  Too

  7 November 1955

  Dear Daddy,

  If you have a spare one, may I have a copy of your request for a grant from Ford? Would you care to write

  the Treasurer

  National Academy of Sciences

  2101 Constitution Avenue

  Washington 25, D.C.

  enclosing a cheque for $7.50 payable to the National Academy of Sciences for a subscription to the Proceedings for me at the red circled address for volume 42, which is 1956, please?

  If you think you can do it, would you like to write Prof. Mott and tell him you are impressed by the work done by the MRC Unit in his laboratory and think it is frightfully important. The Unit includes Drs. FHC Crick, Alex Rich, Don Kasper, J.D. Watson, MF Perutz and J.C. Kendrew. Mott is sort of squeezing us out I think. He wants the room, and perhaps an independent judgment of the value of the work would help him decide.

  Thank you.

  Much love,

  Peter

• Letter from Roy Waldo Miner, Chairman, Committee on Prizes, The New York Academy of Sciences, to Dr. Robert R. Citron, RE: Citron's paper "Spectrophotometric Data as Related to Cancer Lipid Immunologic Studies" has been received and will be considered for The A. Cressy Morrison Prize in Natural Science of 1955. The results of the competition will be announced at the Annual Meeting of the Academy on December 1. Encloses a copy of the conditions governing these prizes. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Individual Correspondence. (Citron - Conant), #66.1]
• Proposed Itinerary: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.1]
• Telegram from Dr. Alexander Hollaender, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to LP RE: Requests answer to the invitation to speak at the conference which is being arranged by the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [Letter from Hollaender to LP October 10, 1955, Letter from LP to Hollaender November 9, 1955] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1950-1955), #166.6]
• Typescript: "Statement by Linus Pauling," RE: LP's relations with the U.S. State Department to be presented at a hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1955a.5]