Letter from Linus Pauling to Stanford H. Hart. October 9, 1957. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from AHP to Clement E. Inskeep for $135.20. [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 AHP to Colby's Nurseries for $5.73. [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 A.M. Ewing, Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma City University, to LP RE: Includes a list of textbook writers that LP agrees with on the classifying of elements in the periodic chart and ones he doesn't agree with. Asks why chemists don't work on a more uniform solution. [Letter from LP to Professor Ewing October 15, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1957), #112.23]
• Letter from LP to Colin B. Mackay, University of New Brunswick, RE: Thanks Mackay for his lecture and writes that he is looking forward to giving the Priestman Lectures. [Letter from Mackay to LP October 2, 1957, Letter from Mackay to LP October 31, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s2.6]
• Letter from LP to Dr. I. Kuš(er, Institut za Fiziko RE: Notifies him that Dr. Lauritsen had agreed to have Mr. Povh come later than expected and is now awaiting his arrival since Mr. Povh's stipend was reinstated. [Letter from Dr. Kuš(er to LP September 27, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1957), #201.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Robert P. Owen, Owen Laboratories, Inc RE: Wishes he could speak to the Neighborhood Church Couple's Club but says that he is not accepting any speaking invitations because of a busy schedule and poor health. [Letter from Dr. Owen to LP October 7, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1957), #300.19]
• Letter from LP to E. C. Ward RE: Discusses the current statue of their research and is pleased he mentioned work by Professor Jacques Benoit which they have begun some research on. [Note from EC Ward to LP October 2, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.13]
• Letter from LP to Frank J. Toole, University of New Brunswick, RE: Confirms travel plans and suggests that the titles of his lectures by "Molecules in Relation to Disease," "The Structure of Proteins," and "Science in the Modern World." Asks if he is correct in assuming he does not need to bring a dinner jacket. [Letter from Toole to LP September 25, 1957] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1957s2.6]
• Letter from LP to Philip Glusker, Chairman, Jewish Affairs Luncheon Club, Westside Jewish Community Center RE: Thanks him for the invitation to speak, expresses a wish to be able to do it, but declines because he is no longer accepting new invitations because his schedule is full and he is having health problems. [Letter from Mr. Glusker to LP, October 8, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1957), #141.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor Ralph W. Lewis, Department of Natural Science, Michigan State University RE: Clarifies the points that make his views on the nature of life different from the views of Schrödinger, as well as clarifies that he thinks it is still worthwhile to research biology and make new discoveries in the field. Explains his statements with an example from chemistry. [Letter from Professor Lewis to LP October 4, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1957), #231.3]
• Letter from LP to Stanford H. Hart. [Letter from Mr. Hart to LP October 21, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1957), #167.2]

  9 October 1957

  Mr. Stanford H. Hart

  290 Del Rey

  Pasadena, California

  Dear Mr. Hart:

  On my return to Pasadena after nearly three months in Europe, I find that you have now retired, and that I no longer shall have the pleasure of seeing you at work in the Instrument Shop of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the California Institute of Technology, and of occasionally talking with you about the progress of the work.

  I feel that much of the credit for the excellent work done by people in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the Institute has to be given to the excellence of the apparatus with which they work, and accordingly that it comes back to you. I do not know whether this feeling has been expressed in words very often, but I am sure that you have recognized that it exists.

  Let me express to you, on my own behalf and also on the behalf of my colleagues in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, the thanks of the Division for your valuable and effective collaboration over the past 27 years, and our best wishes to you for the years to come.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:w