Letter from Linus Pauling to Roy J. Kuffner. March 19, 1956. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to Pearl M. Jordan for $100.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
• Check from AHP to Peirre Dalinet for $6.25. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
• Check from LP to Mr. Paul Hallberg for $213.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957: Box #4.024, Folder #24.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1951-1960: Box #4.075, Folder #75.3]
• Letter from Barclay Ray, Geological Sciences, CIT, to LP RE: Pleased that LP has agreed to talk to the Geology Club on May 16. Will announce the talk under the title "New Structures for Borate Minerals," but LP is free to discuss other topics in structural chemistry. Invites LP and AHP to dine with people from the department in the Atheneum at 6 PM. Will write again in May. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.23]
• Letter from George Tarjan, Pacific State Hospital, to Dr. Wright, cc: LP and Mrs. Waldron, RE: References articles regarding Hemoglobin from the March issue of the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Tarjan, George), #405.2]
• Letter from LP to Crellin Pauling RE: Asks Crellin to meet LP and AHP at the Portland Airport at 12:40 PM on Friday. They will leave by train at 11:45 PM on the same day for Seattle and Vancouver. Asks that Crellin return LP's wristwatch and credit card when they meet in Portland. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.9]
• Letter from LP to Dr. and Mrs. Hogness, Chicago Midway Laboratories, University of Chicago, RE: Though their schedule is rather full, LP and AHP would like to see the Hognesses, perhaps on April 29. They will arrive in Chicago at 12:25 PM. They could stay overnight with the Hognesses and then go on to Urbana the following day. [Telegram from Hogness to LP March 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.11]
• Letter from LP to Mizuho Odagiri, Kinki University, RE: Expresses interest in Odagiri's work on Science Reports of the Society for the Research of Theoretical Chemistry. [Letters from Odagiri to LP February 20, 1956, May 18, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
• Letter from LP to N. N. Saha, University of Rangoon, RE: Sends an application for an Arthur Amos Noyes Fellowship in Chemistry which LP suggests Saha apply for. [Letters from Saha to LP February 24, 1956, December 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
• Letter from LP to Roy J. Kuffner, Fisk University. [Letter from Kuffner to LP March 9, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1956), #200.21]

  19 March 1956

  Dr. Roy J. Kuffner

  Department of Chemistry

  Fisk University

  Nashville 8, Tennessee

  Dear Dr. Kuffner:

  I have been interested to read your letter of 9 March and the accompanying material, dealing with philosophy in relation to science.

  I may say that I myself have had trouble in getting interested in philosophy. From time to time I have made an effort to do so, but never with success. During recent years I have talked with Dr. Max Mason about this matter, and have found that his thoughts on the subject are similar to mine. Perhaps he goes somewhat beyond me - he says that so far as he can discover philosophy is verbalism - that it deals with words exclusively, and has no deeper meaning. It is my opinion that there is something to what he says; and I am skeptical about the value of philosophy for young people. Of course, some of the questions that you mention are really a part of science, a clarification of the words used by scientists and of the questions that they discuss.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from Lindsay Helmolz, Washington University, to LP RE: Asks if LP could stop in St. Louis to visit on his way to Illinois. [Letter from LP to Helmholz March 22, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Helmholz, Lindsay), #156.2]
• Letter from Ray T. Bayless, Assistant Secretary, American Society for Metals, to LP RE: Encloses dummy pages for LP's article "The Electronic Structure of Metals and Alloys" from the ASM Seminar on Theory of Alloy Phases. Requests that LP look over the pages and make necessary corrections. [Letter from Bayless to LP May 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1956a.3]
• Letter from Robert D. Vold, Indian Institute of Science, to LP RE: Requests that LP nominate qualified Indian students for a faculty position, Senior Research Assistant, at the Indian Institute of Science. [Letter from LP to Vold April 17, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (V: Correspondence, 1956), #427.16]
• Receipt from the International Society of Hematology to LP RE: Acknowledges receipt of $6.00 in payment of dues for the years 1955 and 1956 from LP. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1956), #185.17]