Letter from Linus Pauling to Corliss Lamont. October 22, 1956. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to B. Altman and Co. for $60.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.1]
• Check from LP to North Pacific Coast Line for $24.72. [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]
• Correspondence: Author Unknown, [re: Itinerary of lecture topics for Pauling speaking tour of the Pacific Northwest] October 22, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.17]
• D. Evaluation by LP for Foster Strong RE: Answers questions evaluating the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
• Itinerary [handwritten]: Lunch with Maylock-Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.2]
• Itinerary [handwritten]: Meade Swing Lectures; Oberlin, Ohio [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.2]
• Letter from Alvin L. Sellers, Institute for Medical Research, to LP RE: Regrets that LP was unable to address the meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Invites LP to speak at the society's second meeting of the year at Caltech. [Letters from LP to Sellers September 21, 1956, October 24, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine), #376.1]
• Letter from Dr. Thomas L. Nelson, Sonoma State Hospital, to Dr. George Tarjan, Pacific State Hospital, RE: Gives information about the retarded phenylketonuric patient, Gretta Bohm, as well as her retarded non-phenylketnuric daughter, Virginia Bohm. Will be pleased to help LP in any way they can. [Letters from Tarjan to Nelson October 15, 1956, October 25, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1966: Box #11.089, Folder #89.2]
• Letter from EJ Kapun to LP RE: Writes for a European friend, Dr. Wolfram Keup, a psychiatrist in Switzerland who is requesting a copy of an address given by LP at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. [Letter from LP to Kapun October 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.13]
• Letter from Elmer Stotz, University of Rochester, to LP RE: Invites LP to participate in a symposium on hemoglobin for the American Society of Biological Chemists at a Federation meeting. [Letter from LP to Stotz October 25, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
• Letter from Gaétan Jasmin to Dora E. Young RE: Encloses the complete application to apply for a Fellowship from their foundation. [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation-Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957), Box #15.005, Folder #5.6]
• Letter from Holland Roberts, California Labor School, to LP RE: Expresses interest in the lecture on the effects of radiation announced by the First Unitarian Church in LA. Inquires about copies of the lecture. [Letter from LP to Roberts October 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Roberts, Holland), #330.5]
• Letter from Julia Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal & Family, Family Correspondence: Peter Pauling #5.042 Folder #42.3]

  October 22^nd

  Dear Mama,

  I just came home from shopping and found your letter with pictures. I read it first as Peter is at work. I certainly wish we could come to you for Christmas, but don't know what Peter will say about this. He seems to be taking his paternal position very seriously, and to have agreed somewhat in the last two months. It is partly that ghastly beard which he still refuses to part with. What shall I do? I have tried everything I can think of.

  I am sorry not to write sooner. I just always seem to tired and uninspired when I at last get to sitting down. It is worth it though, I do appreciate all your lovely letters too. My own mother gets frightfully cross when I do not write and this depresses me and cramps my style even more.

  Thomas is so gorgeous. All my relations who visit say he is like me but I am sure you would think he was like Peter, the crinkles up his nose when he smiles in just the same way. Also, I am sure I was not such a nice baby. He is very good, just naughty sometimes to show that he is human. He first smiled on the day exactly that he was six weeks old. He has a very gooey, sentimental smile. It is his two months' birthday today.

  The ranch looks heavenlyThe sea right close. I have always loved the sea. I wish we could come.

  I have a very tentative request to you, if you can spare the time and trouble. Joy Jonckheere lent me two cook-books, which Mrs. Bridges admires very much, and I wondered if you could get them for her. They are: Fannie Farmers Candy Cook Booka signet book published by the New American Library, and the Pocket Cook Book (Pocket Books Inc.), both paperbacks.

  Much love to you both and Linda

  Julia.

• Letter from LP to Benjamin Schpiro RE: Answers to say he is just beginning work in the field but suggests he go to Bellevue Hospital. [Note from Schipiro to LP October 13, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.089, Folder #89.6]
• Letter from LP to Charles Schwieso RE: Encloses the statement Schwieso requested regarding H-bombs and a clipping from the Los Angeles Times containing LP's comments on atom bomb testing. [Note from Schwieso to LP October 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
• Letter from LP to Corliss Lamont. [Letter from Lamont to LP October 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Lamont, Corliss), #212.5]

  22 October 1956

  Dr. Corliss Lamont

  450 Riverside Drive

  New York 27, N.Y.

  Dear Dr. Lamont:

  I am pleased to have your letter, and the opportunity to carry on a discussion with you by mail.

  I did not define mass in my book on chemistry, because the book is not supposed to cover the field of physics, and I have had trouble in saying the things about chemistry that I want to say without having idle book become too large.

  If I were to attempt to define mass, I should say that it is the quality that is involved in gravitational attraction and in resistance to change of motion. Rigorously, of course, one should describe two qualities, gravitational mass and inertial mass. It is found by experiment that these two qualities are strictly proportional to one another - no exception has been found. Accordingly at the present time we are justified in lumping them together into a single quality. (I am not sure that I am using the word quality in the right way - that is, in the way used by philosophers.)

  Energy has both gravitional mass and inertial mass. A quantum of light, which is described as energy and not matter, attracts all other masses in the universe. Also, a quantum of light resists a change in its state of notion, resists acceleration, in the way determined by its mass.

  I do not remember whether anyone has coined a word to apply to everything that has mass. I believe that some people have used the expression matter-energy. I do not feel that spacial extension is satisfactory.

  I have to say that I do not have any feeling at all about the ultimate metaphysical categories that you list in your letter -activity, form, duration, etc. Do you define them rigorously, or are they introduced as indefinables?

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Dr. Albert E. Sobel, Biochemistry Dept., Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, RE: Plans to arrive at Idylwild airport on TWA 4. Will have had dinner on the plane. Plans to stay at the Hotel St. George. Suggests that he spend an hour with Sobel and others in the evening. It probably would save time if Sobel were to meet LP at the airport. [Letter from Sobel to LP October 16, 1956, Letter from Wulf to Sobel October 25, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.32]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Carl M. Stevens, Chemistry Dept., State College of Washington, RE: Accepts invitation to participate in a chemistry seminar on November 6 at 4:15 PM. Has declined lunch invitation from Alpha Chi Sigma because LP and AHP will arrive after the lunch hour. Upon arrival, will go to the Compton Union and then to the chemistry department. [Letter from Stevens to LP October 10, 1956, Letter from LP to Stevens October 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.34]
• Letter from LP to Dr. George M. Guest , Children's Hospital Research Foundation, RE: Thanks Guest for the letter of invitation to speak before the Society for Pediatric Research. Explains that he will be in France at the time and will be unable accept Guest's invitation. [Letter from Guest to LP October 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1956), #140.20]
• Letter from LP to Dr. George M. Guest, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, RE: Says that October 26 would be a fine day for him to meet with Guest. Discusses details of Guest's arrival. [Letter from Guest to LP October 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1956), #140.20]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J.D. Patterson, Oregon Agriculture Dept., RE: Sees that Patterson has selected the lecture title "Valence of Metals and the Structure of Intermetallic Compounds." Suggests that Patterson change the talk to "Abnormal Hemoglobin Molecules in Relation to Disease" because he gave a lecture on that topic in Oregon a few years ago. Would not like to repeat himself on the rare occasions when he comes to Oregon. LP and AHP will be traveling by car and he is not sure what their schedule will be. Will select a motel when they get there. Will use standard American slides. [Letters from Patterson to LP October 12, 1956, October 24, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.34]
• Letter from LP to Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., Western Reserve University, RE: Declines the invitation to deliver the annual Hanna Lecture at Western Reserve University. [Letter from Sutherland, Jr. to LP October 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
• Letter from LP to Florence Ervine, RE: There is not much radioactivity in watches with illuminated dials or in clocks of that sort either. However, when a watch like that is worn close to the wrist, there is a small but significant amount of radiation that reaches the wrist. [Letter from Ervine to LP October 17, 1956] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials, re: Fallout and Radiation Shelters, and Civil Defense, 1954-1961), Box #7.007, Folder #7.1]
• Letter from LP to M. Kent Wilson, Tufts University, RE: Says Caltech has several post-doctoral fellows who might be good candidates for staff positions at Tufts. [Letter from Wilson to LP October 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
• Letter from LP to Mark Marvin RE: Responds to his letter and discusses tissue therapy to help his deaf son but thinks there is no possibility it would be of value. Advises not to arrange for treatment of his son. [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.089, Folder #89.6]
• Letter from LP to Professor Hans Neurath, School of Medicine, University of Washington, RE: Sorry to hear that Neurath will be away when LP visits Seattle. LP and AHP will not have much time in Seattle, so cannot accept the invitation to participate in an informal seminar. [Letter from Neurath to LP October 12, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.34]
• Letter from LP to Richard Lippman RE: Sends a letter from Mark Marvin and carbon copy of response. Asks if he did the right thing. [Letter from LP to Marvin October 22, 1956, Letter from Lippman to LP October 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.089, Folder #89.6]
• Letter from LP to Richard M. Gordon, Funk & Wagnalls, RE: Recommends Prof. G. W. Whetland of the University of Chicago for membership on Funk & Wagnalls' editorial staff. Describes Whetland's credentials. [Letter from Gordon to LP October 8, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1956), #140.20]
• Letter from LP to Roland Lovejoy, Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity, Washington State College, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept the invitation to an informal luncheon on November 6. Will arrive in Pullman shortly after lunch. Will be speaking at a chemistry seminar that day and students are welcome to ask questions then. [Letter from Lovejoy to LP October 14, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.34]
• Letter from LP to Valdemar Frankel, Bien, RE: Comments on Frankel's review of LP's lecture before the American-Scandinavian Foundation. [Letter from Frankel to LP October 16, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1956), #128.21]
• Letter from Peter Pauling to Ava Helen Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.042, Folder #42.3]

  182 Broomwood Road

  London S.W. II

  22 October 1956

  Dear Mamma,

  Thank you for your letter & the photographs of the ranch, which looks lovely. I think you should plant some trees, perhaps a lot of trees. Do they grow? Conifers?

  I am quite excited about the possibility of coming home for Christmas; the idea had never seriously occurred to me.

  Linus & Anita had suggested that if we could get ourselves to the Pacific coast, then they would help with the LA ↔Honolulu jump, which would be about $735. I do not know if they would donate this amount to a transportation kitty.

  The 3^rd return fare for Thomas, Julia, and me, London to Los Angeles via the pole would be about $1500, quite a tidy sum. As a student, or on the family plan, we might knock 1/3 off that, though perhaps so much is not possible. How are your connections with SAS?

  I am not sure that the student reduction applys to the North Atlantic run, nor may it apply to student's dependents. You might ask at that and and I shall ask here.

  Julia's visa expires on November 30^th so either she must come by then or we must get a new one. We could get her a visitor's visa for the short visit.

  Well, we should be mighty pleased to come. It just depends on the kitty.

  Much love,

  XXXOOO Peter

  We must decide soon to arrange the visa.

• Letter from Phil Kerby, Frontier, to LP RE: Forwards an editorial article from the October 17 St. Louis Post-Dispatch to LP and his colleagues. [Letter from LP to Kerby October 24, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1956), #200.21]
• Letter from R. W. Hart, Public Heath Service, to LP RE: Discusses provisions of the Air Pollution Research and Technical Assistance Act of 1955. Asks for a statement regarding the level of development of Caltech's curricula in the field of air pollution. [Letter from LP to Hart November 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1956), #167.1]
• Letter from William B. Castle to Dora E. Young, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, RE: Encloses Dr. Jandl's application for further support by their foundation. [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation-Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957), Box #15.005, Folder #5.2]
• Magazine Article: "The Search has Only Started," Life, October 22, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.21]
• Newspaper Clipping: "A-Tests Reduce Life—Pauling," Pasadena (California) Independent, October 22, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.23]
• Newspaper Clipping: "A-Tests Reduce Life—Pauling," Pasadena (California) Independent, October 22,1956. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: 1956n.11]
• Route slip from Dora E. Young, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation to LP RE: Encloses the application for Dr. Robert F. Willkens, who LP will interview on November 8, 1956 while in Seattle, since it is complete. [Filed under LP Science: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation—Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957: Box #15.004, Folder #4.1]