Letter from Linus Pauling to Harry Goldblatt. June 12, 1958. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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• Check from LP to Beatrice J. Wulf for $200.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Check from LP to Bennett Travel Agency for $727.98. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]
• Letter from Corinne Thrasher, Secretary to Henry R. Luce, to LP. RE: Informs him of the arrangements for lunch on June 17th. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Luce, Henry R.) #218.8]
• Letter from Cyrus S. Eaton, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, to LP. RE: Is eagerly awaiting LP's book. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Eaton, Cyrus & Anne) #106.2]
• Letter from LP to Boris Stankevich, Pomona Valley Press Club. RE: Will be pleased to meet with the club on July 25th. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1953-1959) #313.6]
• Letter from LP to Carl S. Soule, Board of World Peace. RE: Informs him that he will be in Europe during September. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1958) #380.2]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Camille Duculot. RE: Thanks her for her letter. Discusses his recent work. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence, 1958) #98.23]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Harry Goldblatt, Mount Sinai Hospital. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1958) #141.2]

  12 June 1958

  Dr. Harry Goldblatt

  The Mount Sinai Hospital

  1800 East 105th Street

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Dear Dr. Goldblatt:

  I am interested to learn about your need to measure the oxygen left in a test tube with about 15 ml capacity. I should think that the oxygen meter that the Beckman Company manufactures would do the job. I haven't checked up on these meters for some time -- about all that I do is to get a small royalty from them. I am pretty sure that there is a model that has a gas capacity of about 4 ml. Perhaps it would be worth while to change the rubber tubes leading into the measuring chamber, replacing them by smaller tubes, so as to cut down the amount of volume. Then if a needle were to be stuck through the rubber cap on your test tube, permitting the gas to come out of the test tube and enter the oxygen meter, and perhaps another needle were stuck through the rubber cap of the test tube, and water was introduced, causing the gas in the test tube to flow through the oxygen meter, the gas in the oxygen meter would be essentially completely displaced, and the meter would give a pretty accurate reading corresponding to the gas in your test tube. I think that it might be possible to do this directly with one of the models of the instrument available, or perhaps with a model changed as mentioned above, so as to reduce the amount of volume of gas in the chamber of the apparatus.

  The important thing to you is, I think, the volume of gas in the chamber of the instrument, and I am sure that the company can give you information about it. To make a measurement of oxygen concentration of a gas with this instrument it is necessary that the gas be introduced into the chamber of the instrument.

  Everything is going along well here. I am especially interested in the progress of our program of research on the chemical basis of mental deficiency.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:w

• Letter from LP to Dr. Marvin D. Armstrong, Fels Research Institute, RE: States he is looking forward to seeing Armstrong during the Commencement Events, but doesn't know his schedule well enough yet to set a specific time. States that Dr. Shaw is getting along fairly well at CalTech. [Letter from Marvin D. Armstrong to LP May 16, 1958] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1958), #13.1]
• Letter from LP to Edmund Osmanczyk, RE: Shares his opinion on Germany's plans to acquire nuclear weapons. Hopes the spread of weapons to more countries stops. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (O: Correspondence) #300.20]
• Letter from LP to Mark Keats. RE: Thanks him for his letter. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1958) #201.2]
• Letter from LP to Mary Ann Freiberg. RE: Thanks her for her letter. Informs her about his latest book No More War!. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1958) #129.2]
• Letter from LP to Professor N.D. Sokolov, Institute of Chemical Physics RE: Explains that he agrees mostly with Sokolov's manuscript dealing with conjugation energy but that he does differ from the manuscript's conclusions somewhat. Outlines what he does and does not agree with. Discusses Sokolov's definition of a molecule. Notifies him that he is sending a reprint of his recent article on restricted rotation about single bonds. Handwritten note in right margin: "sent 6/13." [Letter from Professor Sokolov to LP October 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1957), #380.1]
• Letter from LP to the Editor of The New Yorker RE: Disagrees with the statement made by their Reporter at Large that it is the people against the bomb tests that refuse to budge from their position regardless of the data and numbers. LP argues that it is the other way around and that the people in support of the bomb tests rarely provide any numbers or data and instead make general statements. [Letter from LP to the Editor of The New Yorker June 12, 1958, Letter from Oliver to LP July 18, 1958] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1958a2.1]
• Letter from LP to the Editor of The New Yorker RE: Encloses a letter in response to the article "A Reporter at Large" by Daniel Lang in the June 7 edition. Hopes they will publish it in their column Department of Amplification. [Letter from LP to the Editor of The New Yorker June 12, 1958] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1958a2.1]
• Letter from Robert R. Grinstead, to LP. RE: Comments on LP's activities on the issue of nuclear test ban. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1958) #141.2]
• Letter from Sidney M. Weisman, The Modern Forum, to LP. RE: Informs him that Teller has declined the invitation. Invites Strauss to debate with him. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1958) #257.3]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Disgusted," Pasadena (California) Star-News, June 12, 1958. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.155]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Dr. Linus Pauling Receives 15th Honorary Degree," Sierra Madre (California) News, June 12, 1958. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: 1958n.53]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Graduation on June 21", Yellow Springs (Ohio) News, June 12, 1958. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.155]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Pauling to speak," Pasadena (California) Star-News, June 12, 1958. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks, 1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.155]
• Receipt from The International Society of Hematology to LP for $3.00 in payment for dues for the year1958. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Assorted Bills, Receipts, and Invoices, 1951-1962), Box #4.060, Folder #60.4]
• Telegram from LP to Dr. John M. Reiner RE: Asks Reiner to meet him on June 18, 1958 so they can discuss the possibility of Reiner's appointment to their research program on chemistry in relation to mental disease. [Telegram from Reiner to LP June 13, 1958] [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 #89.11]
• Telegram from LP to Henry R. Luce, Time Inc., RE: Accepts invitation to lunch on June 17. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1958s.25]
• Telegram from LP to Henry R. Luce, Time Incorporated. RE: Pleased to accept invitation to lunch. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Luce, Henry R.) #218.8]