Letter from Linus Pauling to Makio Murayama. January 30, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP Herman Koller for $9.60. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2]
• Check from AHP to American Association of University Professors for $7.50. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from LP to Emmil White for $30.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from LP to Outdoor Advertising Fund for $3.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, February 1956-December 1957), Box #4.024, Folder #24.2] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Letter from Dean Lewis N. Pino, Assistant Dean of the College, Colorado College, to LP RE: Informs of his reasons for suggesting LP to the Winter Nights Club as a possible speaker and invites him to lecture at the college if he does come to Colorado to visit the club. [Letter from Murray to LP January 29, 1957, Letter from LP to Pino February 4, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s.14]
• Letter from Dr. C.L. Agre, Chairman, Chemistry Department, St. Olaf College, to LP RE: Requests that LP meet with two visiting Chemistry students, Keith Paulson and Lon Helgen, to help them find career paths. [Letter from LP to Hultgren February 5, 1957, Letter from LP to Agre February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1957), #12.23]
• Letter from Dr. R.L. McFarlan to LP RE: Notifies that he has been doing research on structures on ice and has found some similar structures to ones that he had discovered earlier. Requests pictures of his structures to compare them to the new ones he found in his research. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]
• Letter from Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to LP RE: Asks LP to accept the invitation to be on the Committee of Fellows (nine people) that will work with Straus and Moe, the only two Trustees who will be present at the Committee of Fellows meeting. [Letter from LP to Moe February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Arthur Galston, Yale University, RE: Says that he spoke with Seymour Kety from the National Institute of Mental Health to see if there are political reasons that Dr. Galston was not given fellowships, though he does not think that is the reason. Informs him of Crellin's marriage and Peter's new baby. [Letters from Galston to LP December 7, 1956, February 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Galston, Arthur W., 1956-1960, 1966, 1968, 1975, 1981, 1991), #136.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. J.C. Small RE: Comments that his manuscript is more like an essay of already known medical information than something new in research. Discusses a few of his points which he feels should be modified. Agrees that molecular disease should be discussed more in medical literature. [Letter from Small to LP January 24, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Oleg Jardetzky RE: Informs him of research he and Peter have completed on the possible structures of liquid water. Comments on which ionic values he has been using to help in the assignment of structures. [Letter from LP to Dr. Jardetzky February 4, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Jardetzky, Oleg and Christine, 1956-1959, 1962-1964, 1967-1969, 1971-1975, 1977, 1979-1982, 1984-1985, 1990, 1993-1994), #188.3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Zale A. Yanof RE: Tells Yanof that he is looking forward to receiving the 9th Edition of the Britannica and thanks him for sending it. Asks Yanof to let him know what the shipping expenses are because it seems improper for him to allow Yanof to pay for the cost of shipping. [Letter from Yanof to LP January 24, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Y: Correspondence, 1938-1977.), Box #462, Folder #462.13]
• Letter from LP to J. C. Williams, Atomics International Division of North American Aviation Inc., RE: Says that Adler has good training in chemistry and that his record during his two years there was satisfactory but not outstanding. Says that Adler was good in chemical laboratory work, but not as good in theory. [Telegram from Williams to LP January 29, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1953-1959), Box #444, Folder #444.5]
• Letter from LP to Makio Murayama, University of Pennsylvania. [Letter from Murayama to LP October 10, 1956] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1956), #257.1]

  30 January 1957

  Dr. Makio Murayama

  Graduate School of Medicine

  Department of Biochemistry

  University of Pennsylvania

  Philadelphia 4, Pa.

  Dear Makio:

  I return herewith your manuscript on titratable sulfhydryl groups of hemoglobin.

  I apologize for having kept the manuscript so long. I lost the manuscript at the time we moved from the Crellin Laboratory to the Church Laboratory. I knew that it must be somewhere around my new office, or possibly at home, but, although I put in much time searching for it, it was not until today that I succeeded in finding it, in an unsuspected hiding place.

  I hope that there is not some other important piece of writing lost somewhere in the laboratory; there may well be.

  I think that you should submit the paper for publication, as you suggest. I have made a few suggested changes in the writing, but they are minor ones. It is customary, in discussions such as on your page 6, to give the distances between centers of atoms, rather than their peripheries. If you accept my suggestion of giving the sulfur-sulfur distance as 5.60, you may have to change some of your drawings slightly. The only change necessary is to replace the diameter of the mercury atom by an arrow indicating the distance between the centers of two sulfur atoms.

  Mrs. Wulf has written a page showing the approved form of papers from the laboratory, and giving a publication number in our series.

  Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the beautiful necktie that you sent me for Christmas. I am very pleased to have it.

  Also, please give my best regards to Mrs. Murayama.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:W

  Encl.

• Letter from LP to Mr. Wendell M. Stanley, Jr., RE: Tells Stanley that he is glad to hear from him and that he thinks his idea to do graduate work where he could tie up physical chemistry with biochemistry or organic chemistry is a good one. Suggests Cornell University or the University of Illinois. Says that Stanley should not decide on a problem or a professor to work with until he has begun his graduate work. Suggests that he applies for assistanceships or fellowships in several places. Suggests Harvard, Berkeley, the University of California in Los Angeles, Princeton, and the California Institute of Technology. Tell Stanley that his secretary has asked the Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies to send and application and information to him. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Individual Correspondence (Sosman - Steinhardt)), Box #367, Folder #367.10]
• Letter from LP to Professor I.A. Richards RE: Gives Richards permission to use his drawings of the postulated process of the formation of an antibody. Encloses a reprint of his paper on the theory of the structure and the formation of antibodies, which includes the drawing. Asks to have the reprint back once Richards has made a reproduction of the drawing. Says he is not sure if this is the drawing that Richards is seeking and that a similar figure was published in Endeavor, but Endeavor has refused permission in the past to have the figure reproduced. [Letters from Richards to LP January 18, 1957, March 4, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R:Correspondence, 1955-1959), #341.3]
• Letter from LP to Ricardo Ferreira RE: Comments that there is nothing different to say from the earlier letter except that maybe he is using the word "electronegativity" in two different ways. [Letter from Mr. Ferreira to LP January 22, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Ferreira, Ricardo, 1948-1951, 1956-1959, 1963, 1965-1966, 1968-1970, 1974-1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1991-1994), #119.7]
• Letter from LP to Robert Schmorleitz RE: Declines his invitation to speak to the San Fernando Chapter of American Association for the United Nations because so many organizations have invited him to speak. [Letter from Schmorleitz to LP January 25, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Letter from LP to Victor Reynolds, Cornell University Press, RE: Supports his idea of printing 2,000 more copies of The Nature of the Chemical Bond and promises to do his best to have the third edition ready by summer of 1958. [Letter from Reynolds to LP January 24, 1957] [Filed under LP Books: 1960b5.2]
• Letter from Margaret M. Riva to LP RE: Explains that she has three retarded children that have all remained unclassified. Encloses a copy of the Journal of Heredity containing the article "Blastophthoric Lead Poisoning," which gives the background and history of her family's experience. Hopes that LP will find this problem challenging and give it serious thought. [Letter from LP to Riva February 7, 1957, Letter from Lippman to Riva February 21, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1956: Box #11.089, Folder 89.7]
• Letter from Ralph W. Burhoe, Secretary, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, to LP RE: Invites LP to be part of a meeting with other West Coast science scholars to discuss issues between science and religion. Asks if the person in charge of that meeting, Professor Robert Maybury of Redlands University, can contact LP. Encloses an article from Science magazine, a brochure from their summer meeting, and a list of the Institute's board members. [Letter from LP to Burhoe February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
• Letter from Roger W. Straus and Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, RE: Asks LP to be one of the Fellows to assist the Board of Trustees and Mrs. Guggenheim in deciding what to do with their funding, which is now much larger than which the plans were originally made for. [Letter from LP to Straus and Moe February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1953-1975), Box #14.015, Folder #15.5]
• Note from Virginia L. Beals to LP RE: Gives LP the mental progress of her son Jeffrey Beals and tells LP that Jeffrey's health has been excellent since he started taking Vitamin A, although his skin condition has not changed. [Letter from LP to Beals February 5, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 1955-1956: Box #11.089, Folder 89.7]