Letter from Linus Pauling to W.H. Freeman. May 24, 1956. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to Richard Richards for U.S. Senate Company for $50.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
• Letter from LP to Charles Brough RE: Says he will not comment on Brough's revised first chapter of his manuscript. [Letter from Brough to LP May 20, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1956), #38.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Domenico Marotta, Permanent Secretary, Academia Nazionale dei XL, RE: Honored that the President and the Council of the Academia have decided to award LP an Avogadro Medal. [Letter from Marotta to LP May 19, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.25]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Domenico Marotta, Secretary General, Italian Chemical Society, RE: Thanks Marotta and the General Council for electing him as an Honorary Fellow of the Italian Chemical Society. Hopes that his election will strengthen the friendship between the chemists of their two countries. [Letter from Marotta to LP May 19, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.25]
• Letter from LP to Fred O'Flaherty, University of Cincinnati, RE: Gives O'Flaherty permission to use specific figures in his monograph, "The Chemistry and Technology of Leather Manufacture." [Letter from O'Flaherty to LP May 22, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1956), #300.18]
• Letter from LP to H. S. Rogers, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, RE: Declines the invitation to attend the Corporation Dinner of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in June. [Letter from Rogers to LP May 17, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1956), #341.2]
• Letter from LP to Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: LP will not be in Pasadena when Moe is there because he is giving an address in Rome. Includes his recommendation that Dr. Chargaff should receive a second Fellowship. [Letters from Moe to LP May 22, 1956, May 30, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
• Letter from LP to L. A. DuBridge, Caltech, RE: Responds to DuBridge's May 17 letter regarding salary increases. [Letter from DuBridge to LP May 17, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (DuBridge, Lee A.), #96.16]
• Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Company. [Memo from Badger to LP May 21, 1956, Letter from Freeman to Badger June 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W.H. Freeman and Company, 1956), #439.14]

  24 May 1956

  Mr. W. H. Freeman

  660 Market Street

  San Francisco 4, Calif.

  Dear Bill:

  I have checked up on the matter discussed in your letter of 9 May, namely, the possibility of preparing for publication a chemical thermodynamics based on the Dickinson notes.

  There has been in the past some discussion of collaboration with Badger and Bates, and David Shoemaker, on this job.

  I have talked with Professor Badger about the matter. He feels that the Dickinson notes provide the best basis that there is for teaching chemical thermodynamics, but that they are not extensive enough to make one independent of some other text. Also, as you know, Professor Bates compiled an extensive set of problems, and Professor Badger has added to this set, in such a way as to correspond pretty well with the material in the Dickinson notes.

  The Dickinson notes are, I think, in a way the property of the California Institute of Technology.

  Professor Badger and Professor Schomaker have done some work along the direction of extending the notes, but have not made a manuscript suitable for a book. A few years ago David Shoemaker also worked on the job of editing the Dickinson notes.

  My feeling is that if David Shoemaker and Badger, possibly also Verner Schomaker, would agree to expand the notes in a satisfactory way, there would result a manuscript well worth publication. I do not think that David Shoemaker should go ahead on his own. Perhaps you would think it worth while to talk with Badger about the matter.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

  P.S. We are looking forward to seeing you in July. LP

  cc: Professor Badger

• Letter from Maurizio Gianturco, University of Illinois, to LP RE: Encloses the translation of LP's lecture. [Letter from LP to Gianturcos May 20, 1956, May 28, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.4]
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