Letter from Linus Pauling to Leonard J. Duhl. May 10, 1956. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Ch 1c Freshman Chemistry Schedule. Lecture Topic: Ch 28, Homework: Prob. 33 - 2,3,4,5,11,12,15, Laboratory: General unknown solid substance. [Filed under LP Biographical: Academia: Box #1.014, Folder #14.10]
• Check from AHP to American Association for the United Nations for $3.00. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Athenaeum for $4.80. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors for $5.00. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to District Director of Internal Revenue for $36.90. [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 McMillan Coffee Company for $2.92. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to National Audubon Society for $5.00. [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 Newlin's for $27.50. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Richfield Oil Corporation for $5.85. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Southern California Edison Company for $27.81. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Southern Counties Gas Company for $23.17. [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 #75.5]
• Check from AHP to Standard Oil Company for $19.11. [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 #75.5]
• Letter from David Dietz of Scripps-Howard Newspapers to LP RE: Mentions a column he wrote on LP's remarks in Chicago that was published in the Cleveland Press. [Letter from LP to David Dietz May 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1956), #98.21].
• Letter from Dr. Jacob Kleinberg, Chemistry Dept., University of Kansas, to LP RE: Thanks LP and AHP for their visit. Thanks LP for the generously giving his time and for the impact he had on their students. [Letter from LP to Jacob Kleinberg April 23, 1956, Letter from LP to Jacob Kleinberg May 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.22]
• Letter from Edward B. Maybeck of The Chase Manhattan Bank to LP RE: Expresses interest in LP's remarks before the American Psychiatric Association and requests a copy of the talk. [Letter from LP to Edward B. Maybeck May 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
• Letter from J. A. Prins to LP RE: Discusses his work on amorphous and fibrous sulfur. Asks for LP's opinions on the work and on other scientific matters. Explains his plans to visit Pasadena in September. [Letter from LP to J. A. Prins May 17, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1956), #313.4]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

  9 May 1956

  Dear Peter:

  I enclose a letter offering you appointment as Research Assistant in Chemistry during the coming year. The salary, %4500. per year, is our customary salary to a man who has just received his Ph.D. degree, and has been offered appointment as Research Fellow in Chemistry. I think that your experience during four years of work after the bachelor's degree justifies your appointment with this salary. In general we give the title Research Assistant in Chemistry to people who have not received the Ph.D. degree, although there have been some exceptions made. For example, we have a man with a doctor's degree here now as Research Assistant in Chemistry.

  Howard Dintzis has accepted the appointment here. Professor Corey and I had given him up, because of his delay in answering, but our funds will stretch enough to cover his salary. He said in his letter that he had been trying to get an appointment that would permit him to make an independent attack on the problem of determining the structure of crystalline globular proteins, but had not succeeded, and that he thought that it might be worth while for him to get more experience, anyway.

  I have not told him, nor other people away from Pasadena, what the method of attack is that we have worked out. It should be successful. At any rate, I should be surprised if it were to fail, after several years of effort have been put in on it. It is evident that the job is a hard one.

  Mama and I got home last night, about 9 o'clock.

  Much love to you and Julia.

  Sincerely,

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

  9 May 1956

  Mr. Peter J. Pauling

  182 Broomwood Road

  London, S.W. 11 England

  Dear Peter:

  I am writing to offer you appointment as Research Assistant in Chemistry, for one year, beginning 1 July 1956 or at a later time during the summer of 1956, with salary at the rate of $4500. per year.

  Your duties under this appointment would consist in assisting in a research project on the determination of the structure of crystalline globular proteins by x-ray diffraction techniques. This investigation is related to many problems in biology and medicine. I hope that in the course of the work studies can be made on abnormal protein molecules that are responsible for molecular diseases, such as the hereditary hemolytic anemias and some types of mental deficiency.

  The work is supported from several sources, including grants from or contracts with the National Science Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Public Health Service of the United States, and the Office of Naval Research.

  My colleagues and I feel that the training and experience that you have had in the field of x-ray diffraction of crystalline globular proteins will be valuable in this work, and we are looking forward to having you as a collaborator.

  Sincerely yours,

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from Professor Fred T. Wall, William Albert Noyes Laboratory, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Dept., University of Illinois, to LP RE: Thanks LP for speaking as the first George A. Miller Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Illinois. LP's talks were well-received by the members of many fields. Appreciated LP's emphasis on the interrelatedness of the sciences through molecular structure. Delighted to have LP at Illinois as a scientist and as a friend. [Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Fred T. Wall March 27, 1956, Letter from LP to Fred T. Wall May 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.11]
• Letter from W.H. Freeman of W.H. Freeman and Company to LP RE: Inquires about details of the preparation and publication of a chemical thermodynamics based on Dickinson's notes. Note on lower left: "Prof Badger: What do you say?" [Letter from W.H. Freeman to LP April 11, 1956, Memo from R. M. Badger to LP April 21, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W.H. Freeman and Company, 1956), #439.14]