Letter from Linus Pauling to Carl M. Stevens. November 30, 1956. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Application for Research Fellowship, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, by Dr. Luis Glaser, November 30, 1956. [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation-Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957), Box #15.005, Folder #5.12]
• Check from LP to California Institute of Technology for $1,250.00. [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]
• Check from LP to Geo. W. Holm, Tax Collector, for $138.51. [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]
• Check from LP to H.L. Byram, Tax Collector for $1,265.53. [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]
• Check from LP to Muller and Woolpert for $70.81. [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 #75.3]
• Contract Status Report: Contract N6onr-24423, Chemistry 25, Acct. 23607, Directors of Research: LP and Dr. Verner Schomaker, November 30, 1956. [Filed under LP Science: (Office of Naval Research: Correspondence, Contract Status Reports and Project Status Reports, 1947-1962), Box #14.031, Folder #31.8]
• Flyer: The Truth About Radiation Damage, A Unitarian Public Forum, Los Angeles, November 30, 1956. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.18] [Also filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.36]
• Itinerary [handwritten]: First Unitarian Church Forum, 8 PM [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.2]
• Letter form Dr. George Tarjan, Pacific State Hospital, to LP RE: Encloses four copies of a paper written by Stan Wright and himself on "Phenylketonuria" that will be published in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. Would like LP to circulate the paper among Drs. Rhinesmith, Vinograd, Schroeder, and Lippman. [Letter from LP to Tarjan December 6, 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 Carl F. Cori to Helen Hay Whitney Foundation RE: States that their department will welcome Dr. Glaser's continuing there as a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow and make available to him all investigational facilities. [Filed under LP Science: (Helen Hay Whitney Foundation-Scientific Advisory Committee: Postdoctoral Biomedical Research Fellowship Applicants, 1956-1957), Box #15.005, Folder #5.12]
• Letter from J.A. Campbell, National Science Foundation, to LP RE: Asks LP if he would film two or three lectures to be circulated among the summer institutes supported by the National Science Foundation. Tells LP that the filming could be done in whichever studio he preferred. Apologizes that he was not in Oberlin for LP's visit. [Letter from LP to Campbell December 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Science: (National Science Foundation: Grants, Exhibits, 1954-1964), Box #14.030, Folder #30.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Carl M. Stevens, Chemistry Dept., State College of Washington. [Letter from Stevens to LP November 15, 1956] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1956s.34]

  30 November 1956

  Professor Carl M. Stevens

  Department of Chemistry

  State College of Washington

  Pullman; Washington

  Dear Professor Stevens:

  I am pleased to have received your letter of 15 November. I may say that I enjoyed my visit to the northwest very much, and I am pleased that I was able to serve as the first Northwest Regional Lecturer for the group of local sections of the American Chemical Society in the Northwest.

  Everything went along well on the trip. My wife enjoyed herself, as did I. We had no trouble at all, except that the last morning, when we were still 80 miles from Pasadena and I had a lecture to give at 9 o'clock, I found at 7 o'clock that a tire was flat on my automobile. Fortunately, it was possible to change the tire, and still to get to Pasadena in time for me to give the lecture.

  The following is the statement of my expenses:

  Automobile mileage, 2810 miles at 8 cts/mile .... $224.80

  Motel and meals for 11 days........................ 149.50

  Total........................ $374.30

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to J. H. Saylor, Duke University, RE: Informs that Prof. Roberts is away from Caltech at present. Discusses Dr. Wilder's visit to Caltech. [Letter from Saylor to LP November 14, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]
• Letter from LP to Lee DuBridge. Pauling writes to discuss the potential uses of a gift made to Caltech by Linus Pauling, Jr. and Anita Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.037, Folder #37.8]
• Letter from LP to Linus Pauling, Jr. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.037, Folder #37.8]

  30 November 1956

  Dr. and Mrs. Linus Pauling, Jr.

  3909 Round Top Drive

  Honolulu, T.H.

  Dear Anita and Linus:

  I have received from President DuBridge a copy of his letter of 27 November to you, and I am writing to express to you my thanks for this additional gift for support of the researchers that we are carrying on.

  I enclose a copy of a letter that I have just sent to President DuBridge, about the disposition of the funds.

  Those aspects of our program in mental disease that deal with immunological problems have been held up because we had not succeeded in obtaining funds for equipping the laboratories in the Norman W. Church building that were designed for this work. Now it seems that we can obtain a grant from the Public Health Service, on a matching basis, and I have accordingly allocated $20,000 of the money to this use. I think that it may well be that some kinds of mental disease have an immunological cause-that is, that some people may manufacture antibodies against brain proteins, causing an allergic reaction that leads to mental manifestations. I am hoping that we can obtain some evidence about this hypothesis.

  You may be interested in some work that we plan to do on aging. A short while ago, while I was thinking about the possibility of getting some information about the mechanisms of protein synthesis that operate in the human body and the fact that they might not operate perfectly, and that some factory reject protein molecules might be manufactured along with the well made ones, it occurred to me that these factory reject molecules might in some cases be sticky, and that they might clamp onto reticular proteins, cell membranes, etc., in such a way as to stay in the body permanently, and ultimately to interfere with normal physiological activity. We have planned some experiments to test this hypothesis of aging, and I hope that within a year we shall have some direct experimental information as to whether the remishanism is significant or not.

  We are looking forward very much to seeing you and the children later this month. Peter and his wife and baby plan to arrive about 15 December. Crellin and his wife also will arrive about 15 December. It will be fun to have such a full house. Also, we are hoping that everybody can come up to our ranch for a few days.

  Much love from

  Daddy

  Linus Pauling:W

• Letter from LP to Robert H. Maybury, University of Redlands, RE: Declines Maybury's offer to visit Riverside to speak with him about the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. [Letter from Maybury to LP November 26, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]
• Letter from LP to Van Zand Williams, General Manager, Perkin-Elmer Corporation RE: Accepts his offer to sell CIT one of the earliest models of the company's Bier electrophoresis apparatus for their work with abnormal protein molecules. [Letter from Savitzky to LP April 1, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1957), #313.5]
• Letter from Louis H. Winer, Pacific Dermatologic Association, to LP RE: Invites LP to speak at the Pacific Dermatologic Association's Ninth Annual Meeting. [Letter from LP to Winer December 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1956), #444.4]
• Letter from The Elementary Particle Theory Group, Tokyo University of Education, to "All scientists and people who are concerned with peaceful uses of atomic energy" RE: Discusses an attached statement regarding research in atomic energy in Japan. Divides the statement into three principles of research. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1956), #112.22]
• Letter from W. H. Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Co., to LP RE: Discusses a book by George Pimentel and Aubrey McClellan on hydrogen bonding. Requests LP's recommendation of the book. [Letter from LP to Freeman December 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W.H. Freeman and Company, 1956), #439.14]
• Note from Wilbert A. Sandstrom, student at St. Olaf College, to LP RE: Further discusses his plans and goals for the future. Discusses an interest in cell aging research. Requests application forms to apply to Caltech. [Letters from LP to Sandstrom November 20, 1956, December 5, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]