Letter from Linus Pauling to Percy Julian. April 1, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Draft of Radio Announcement from World Peace Foundation "Murder-Retail and Wholesale" [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo-Yo), Box #4.017, Folder #17.6]
• Draft of Radio Announcement from World Peace Foundation "Types of Rulers" [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo-Yo), Box #4.017, Folder #17.6]
• Letter from Donald D. Van Slyke, Brookhaven National Laboratory to Dr. Albert Sobel, Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn RE: Invites him to write a review of American chemical methods for Clinica Chimica Acta. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Sobel, Albert), #365.10]
• Letter from Dr. John G. Kirkwood, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University RE: Encloses a copy of the third manuscript that Dr. Hideo Murakami sent to him, which deals with rotatory dispersion. Explains that he is sending the manuscript on to him because he has more knowledge in the field and so can judge its accuracy better. [Letter from Dr. Murakami to LP February 28, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Wendell Stanley April 2, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Murakami April 2, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]
• Letter from Dr. John Kirkwood, Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Yale University to LP RE: Thanks him for his recommendation of Dr. Thorson. [Letter from Dr. Kirkwood to LP March 11, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Kirkwood March 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Kirkwood, John G., 1937-1941, 1948-1949, 1951-1953, 1955-1957), #198.11]
• Letter from Helen Silver to LP RE: Discusses some of her theories on the creation of man and what man is in control of. Handwritten note in top right corner: "not to be answered, file." [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Hideo Murakami, Faculty of Science, Osaka University RE: Notifies him that he has sent the first two manuscripts onto Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, who is now the chairman of the committee on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which decides what gets published by the Academy. Comments that he had doubts about the manuscript on DNA replication but felt that his ideas on chemical carcinogenesis were interesting. Informs him that he sent the third manuscript to Dr. John G. Kirkwood. [Letter from Dr. Murakami to LP February 28, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Stanley April 2, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Kirkwood April 2, 1957, Letter from Dr. Stanley to Dr. Murakami May 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. W. E. Pequegnat, Claremont College, RE: Says that Mrs. Charlotte S. Taylor is applying for a National Science Foundation grant so that she attend the summer institute at Claremont College and that she has asked LP to write Pequegnat. Explains that he has know Taylor for years, that he is sure she is an excellent teacher, and that he expects that she would profit from attending the summer institute. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Individual Correspondence. (Tamm - Taylor, W. H.)), Box #405, Folder #405.5]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Walter Thorson, Department of Chemistry at Harvard University, RE: Tells Thorson that he has written to Professor Cristol and tells him to let him know if there is anything else he could do. [Letter from Thorson to LP, March 28, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), Box #411, Folder #411.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, Virus Laboratory, University of California RE: Comments on the manuscripts that Dr. Hideo Murakami sent to him, stating that he does not agree with his conclusions about the replication of DNA but thinks that his work in chemical carcinogenesis is worth publishing but explains that he feels the chemists at the Virus Laboratory would know more on the subject than he does. [Letter from Dr. Murakami to LP February 28, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. John Kirkwood April 2, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Murakami April 2, 1957, Letter from Dr. Stanley to Dr. Murakami May 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]
• Letter from LP to Mary Rachel Parrish RE: LP is not aware of a poisonous salt formed by heating salted butter in an aluminum pan and does not think this procedure is dangerous but it may still upset the stomach. Suggest writing to the School of Medicine of the University of California in Los Angeles if she thinks the situation is serious enough. [Note from Parrish to California Tech Gentlemen March 29, 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 LP to Mrs. Charlotte S. Taylor, RE: Informs Taylor that he has written to Professor Pequegnat recommending that she be accepted for summer institute at Claremont College. Tells Taylor that he is now busy making movies of his lectures and he is going to Europe that summer to attend international congresses. [Handwritten note from Taylor to LP March 16, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Individual Correspondence. (Tamm - Taylor, W. H.)), Box #405, Folder #405.5]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Harold F. Bennett [Jane] RE: LP has asked their medical consultant, Dr. Richard Lippman to consider her question. He should write to her soon. [Note from Bennett to LP March 28, 1957, Letter from Lippman to Bennett April 12, 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 LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.043, Folder #43.1]

  2 April 1957

  Dear Peter:

  Mama and I were pleased to be reminded of your existence. I thank you for sending me the suggested corrections in GENERAL CHEMISTRY. I am afraid that there will not be a new edition of GENERAL CHEMISTRY for several years because it is not selling very fast (compared with COLLEGE CHEMISTRY), and the stock on hand will not be exhausted until perhaps 1959.

  I enclose my check for $500. I have forgotten what agreement we reached about the money for your expenses - I shall try to find my notes on the subject. If you remember, please tell me.

  I am very busy right now. Today I take a screen test, and next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I am to be photographed (color-sound movies). One 50-minute lecture will be screened on each of these three days. The three lectures, covering the subject of chemical valence and molecular structure, essentially as presented to the freshmen here, are for the National Science Foundation, which plans to use them in the summer institutes for high school and Junior college teachers in science and mathematics, 50 of which are to be held this summer.

  Mama and I are going to Santa Barbara day after tomorrow, for a couple of lectures, and then we shall have two or three days at the ranch, before coming back for the movie sequence.

  Do you know that Linda is working for Dr. Corey, attempting to grow protein crystals? She has been on the job for a couple of months now, and seems to be doing well. Dr. Corey has just come back from a month's vacation in Honolulu.

  I have been too busy to finish writing the paper on water. I propose to present the results at the meeting in Ljubljana.

  Crellin has a job working for Professor Campbell this summer - he will be injecting rabbits, running agglutination tests and so on.

  Mama is very busy now, taking French lessons with Berlitz in preparation for the visits to universities in France.

  I think that we have found a man who will lease our service station and also act as manager for the ranch. We ought to have some cows there, because the grass is growing pretty high all over the place.

  Give my love to Julia and to Thomas

  Love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Professor Stanley J. Cristol, Department of Chemistry at the University of Colorado, RE: Tells Cristol that he was pleased with Thorson as a graduate student at Caltech. Says that Thorson is a good theoretical chemist, that he is a fine man with high ideals, and that he would be an excellent teacher. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), Box #411, Folder #411.2]
• Letter from Mary E. King, Co-editor of Newsletter, American Association on Mental Deficiency, to LP RE: Mentions that AAMD plans to publish a quarterly newsletter about current research in the field of mental deficiency and asks if LP would be able to write a little note about what he is researching in the field for the first newsletter. [Letter from LP to Mrs. King April 8, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (American Association on Mental Deficiency (AAMD), 1956-1957, 1959, 1962), #9.4]
• Letter from Robert B. Corey, to Dr. J.H. Bartlett, Esso Research & Engineering Company, cc: LP, RE: Declines request for literature and prices on atomic models developed at Cal Tech on account of Cal Tech not being in the model building business and do not want to enter it either. [Letter from Dr. Bartlett to LP March 14, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence, 1957), #38.3]
• Note from N. V. Subba Rao of Osmania University to LP RE: Informs that he is in Cambridge, MA and discusses plans for his stay in the U.S. [Letter from LP to N. V. Subba Rao December 3, 1956, Letter from LP to N. V. Subba Rao April 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1956), #379.4]