December 23, 1957 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Information Bulletin from OTC Enterprises RE: Explains Otis T. Carr's principle of free-energy space flight. Included with the policy statement of the company and newspaper clippings about it. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence, 1957), #300.19]

Letter from D. Had_i to LP RE: Reminds him again of the need for the manuscript of his speech at the Symposium on Hydrogen Bombing so they can publish it. Requests a couple of paragraphs as a short foreword to it. Handwritten note in left margin, (MS sent 1/8/58, kept 2 figures. [Letter from Mr. Had_i to LP October 19, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1957), #167.2]

Letter from Dickinson Richards to LP, RE: Richards does not believe that he should sign LP's Appeal even though he shares the same humanitarian feelings as LP. However, he is not convinced that this appeal is the best way to approach the problem. Also Richards does not think that he is adequately informed on any of the complex phrases in this situation. [Filed under LP Peace: (An Appeal by Scientists to the Governments and People of the World, 1957-1959), Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]

Letter from Dr. F. Wessely to LP RE: Written in German. Says that in his experience of two World Wars, petitions have not been used to much great effect although they may have the best of intentions. So he won't sign the Appeal. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2 Folder 2.001]

Letter from E.H.S. Burhop to LP, RE: Written in German, seems to be giving signatures. Labeled as number 152. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]

Letter from LP to Don C. McMillan, City Manager, Pasadena RE: Disagrees with the conclusion of the city engineer, stating that the paving done on his street and the gutter and curb that were installed properly. Outlines the problem as he sees it. Comments that he does not appreciate the city turning the western portion of his lawn into "a watercourse for flood waters." Requests a meeting with him so they can discuss it in person. [Letter from Douglas Mackenzie to Mr. McMillan March 28, 1957, Letter from LP to Mr. McMillan December 17, 1957, Letter from Mr. McMillan to LP December 19, 1957, Memo from LP to Barclay Ray December 23, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]

Letter from LP to Dr. Robert H. Maybury, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Redlands RE: Explains he would be happy to meet with him and discuss the possibility of going on sabbatical to the Soviet Union but that the appointment would probably have to be put of for three or four weeks. Discusses some things that he will need to have worked out before he went on sabbatical there, such as who would support him financially and where he and his family would live. [Letter from Dr. Maybury to LP December 20, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]

Letter from LP to John A. Donnan, Chemistry teacher, Sherman E. Burroughs High School RE: Recommends The Nature of the Chemical Bond as well as the Journal of Chemical Education for places to find out information about atomic weights and angles in molecules and how to build models of them. Gives the dimensions of his models. [Letter from Mr. Donnan to LP December 17, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1957), #98.22]

Letter from LP to Mr. W. H. Freeman, RE: Tell Freeman that he is sorry to learn the result of his talk with Pimentel and that he thinks he would have been a good co-editor. Says that Freeman should go ahead and approach Snell and if Snell is willing to serve, the problem of editing the chemistry books would be solved. [Letter from Freeman to LP, December 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1941-1959.), Box #439, Folder #439.15]

Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.043, Folder #43.1]

23 December 1957

Dear Peter:

I have just ran across a paper on potassium nickel sulfate and related compounds that might possibly interest you, although it is not very interesting.

It is by Mmes. Nathalie Domassieux and Colette Malard, Comptes rend., 245, 1544 (1957), the issue of 28 October. Its title is Ihermogravimetric Study of Simple and Double Sulfates of Nickel and of Potassium, Rubidium, and Cesium. The authors have taken nickel sulfate heptahydrate, heated it at the rate of 150 degrees per hour, and measured the weight as a function of temperature. They found that it lost 6 water molecules rather rapidly, from about 100 degrees to 150 degrees. It remained constant at the monohydrate to about 400 degrees, and lost the remaining water molecule. Then at about 800 degrees, sulfur trioxide was liberated, leaving nickel oxide, NiO. When the double salt K²Ni (SO⁴)₂•6N₂O was heated, it lost all of its water between about 120 degrees and 200 degrees. The sulfur trioxide, or at least some of it, was lost between 880 degrees and 1000 degrees. Essentially the same results were obtained with the rubidium and cesium salts.

References are given to some other people who have studied dehydration of these salts, and also to an earlier note by the same authors, Comptes rend., 245, 1429 (1957). I have the earlier issue somewhere at home, but I shall not hunt it out unless you are enough interested to want me to read it.

Much love from

[Linus Pauling]

Letter from Linda Nelson, Executive Secretary, National Nephrosis Foundation, Southern California Chapter, to LP RE: States that LP's term as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council has expired. Asks if LP can submit the names of two people to succeed this position. [Letter from LP to Nelson January 3, 1958] [LP Science: (National Nephrosis Foundation, Inc., 1954-1958), Box #14.026, Folder #26.1]

Letter from Richard Thruelsen, Associate Editor of the Saturday Evening Post, to LP, RE: Tells LP that The Post staff can not support LP's prohibition of nuclear weapons testing. Says that they do not question the validity of LP's thesis, however since there are so many grey areas involved in the subject, the rapidly changing world might date such an article during its preparation for publication in a general magazine. Suggests that, concerning his contribution to their new series, LP writes an article on the structure of proteins. [Two letters from LP to Thruelsen, December 4, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), Box #411, Folder #411.2]

Letter from Russell Johnson to LP, RE: Johnson sends LP a sheet entitled "We Need More Scientists Like These" in which LP is quoted. Johnson is also sending LP a copy of an Open Letter to Dr. Killian. [Handwritten note on bottom by Johnson "P.S. you may consider speaking at a public meeting in New England Fall 1958? We're very much interested!" [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am), Box #4.009, Folder #9.4]

Memo from Harden M. McConnell to LP, RE: Cannot give a very high rating to the enclosed proposal to the PHS by Kowalsky, since most of the budget and associated research plan deal with application of nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to biochemical problems, a technique that Kowalsky is not very experienced with. [Letter from Dr. Irvin Fuhr to LP December 10, 1957] [Filed under LP Science: (United States Public Health Service: Assorted Grants, 1954-1964), Box #14.042, Folder #42.4]

Memo from LP to Barclay Ray RE: Requests a copy of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey's Sierra Madre quadrangle map from 1928, to help him in his discussion with the city manager about the problem of surface water draining into his lawn after road construction on his street. [Letter from Douglas Mackenzie to Mr. McMillan March 28, 1957, Letter from LP to Mr. McMillan December 17, 1957, Letter from Mr. McMillan to LP December 19, 1957, Letter from LP to Mr. McMillan December 23, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1957), #257.2]

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