Letter from Linus Pauling to Robert Hutchins. October 6, 1958. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to J. Herbert Hall for $15.55. [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 #76.2]
• Check from AHP to J.W. Robinson Co. For $445.87. [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 #76.2]
• Check from AHP to Joseph W. Wood for $9.40. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 19590, Box #4.025, Folder #25.1] [Also filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.2]
• Check from LP to Bennett Travel Agency for $697.57. [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 Clarence E. Pickett, to LP. RE: Encloses a statement to be published in New York Times. Is creating a petition. Asks LP to sign it. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1953-1959) #313.6]
• Letter from Dr. W. D. Leech, La Sierra College, to LP RE: Suggests open dates at La Sierra College during which LP could give a talk to the student body. [Letter from LP to Leech July 2, 1958, Letter from LP to Leech October 20, 1958] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1959s.2]
• Letter from George Ehrmann, to LP. RE: Hopes to discuss his subject with him soon. Encloses a brief outline of his work. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence) #112.24]
• Letter from J.W. Williams, University of Wisconsin, to LP RE: Thanks LP for sending him a copy of No More War! and write that he admires LP's courage and devotion to the cause. [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
• Letter from Jay S. Roth, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, to LP. RE: Encloses a letter which was written as a commentary on the recent article by Finkle in Science. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1955-1959) #341. 4]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP, to William H. Freeman, W. H. Freeman and Company. RE: Informs him that LP would be glad to see Freeman on October 17th. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1958) #439.16]
• Letter from LP to Ben May, RE: LP is sending May a copy of No More War under separate cover. LP thanks May for the clipping from Nature which discussed LP's resignation as Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. LP would like to know May's thought and any advice about the idea of creating an organization that is set up to promote world peace. LP suggested this World Peace Research Organization in the last chapter of No More War. [May's letter September 25, 1958] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: World Peace Research Organization, 1958-1960), Box #6.003, Folder #3.1]
• Letter from LP to C. Earle Short, General Atomic. RE: Gives his opinion of Dr. Crane. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1958) #141.2]
• Letter from LP to Dora E. Young, The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation RE: LP lists the times he can interview the applicants. [Letters from Young to LP September 29, 1958, October 5, 1958, Memorandum from Young to LP October 9, 1958] [Filed under LP Science: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation—Scientific Advisory Committee: Correspondence 1954-1959: Box #15.002, Folder #2.4]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Thomas D. Fontaine, National Science Foundation. RE: Gives his opinion of Neilen W. Hultgren. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1958) #167.3]
• Letter from LP to Linus Pauling, Jr. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.038, Folder #38.1]

  7 October 1958

  Dr. Linus Pauling, Jr.

  3909 Round Top Drive Honolulu, T.H.

  Dear Linus:

  Mama and I got back from Europe five days ago, and we are starting on an Eastern trip tomorrow. I am going to speak at Massachusetts General Hospital, and also at Harvard Medical School, the latter talk being to the medical students in Nu Sigma Nu fraternity. Then we go to Princeton for a three-day meeting of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, and to McGill University for a talk to the Chemical Institute of Canada, and we shall come home next Thursday. Everything went along very well in Europe. We had a fine time.

  We are pleased indeed to have the invitation from you and Anita to come to visit you at Christmas time. I think that I shall plan to look into the research program on mental deficiency that is being started up by Dick Lippman and President Snyder. I understand that President Snyder himself will be one of the principle investigators, and that the Public Health Service is almost sure to make the grant for support of the work. Linda's little babies are developing very well. They are very cute little boys.

  I spoke to the University Students Association in Oslo and also in Trondheim, while we were in Norway, and gave several other talks about nuclear warfare and the need for a World Peace Research Organization. It looks to me as though I am committed now to do some more work along these lines. I have decided that probably the way in which the World Peace Research Organization could be got started is to have it set up as a private, non-governmental international organization, and then later to ask the United Nations to recognize it, perhaps allowing it to have a representative in the Assembly of the United Nations, along with the representatives of the governments. I have been trying to decide where the organization might be located. I thought at first that it would be nice to have it on the coast of California, perhaps a few miles south of Monterey. However, everyone seems to think that it would be a great handicap to plan to have it in the United States or in Russia, probably also in Great Britain or France. At the present time it seems to me that a possible site is in the hills ten or twenty miles away from Rome. I think that it should be in a place where people would like to live, especially academic people. Do you have any suggestions to make? I think that Switzerland probably

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  should be ruled out on the ground that there are too many United Nations organizations and other International organizations already located in Switzerland. Mommie and I hope that you will be able to stop by and see us, also Anita, during your trips. We shall be back home on Friday 17 October. We are planning to go up to the ranch sometime later in October, and we leave on Thursday 6 November for a two-weeks trip, getting back home approximately Saturday 22 November. We do not have any other trips away from home, except to the ranch, scheduled at present, until June, 1959, when we expect to go to Europe. Mommie and I are both in good health. Peter seems to be well pleased with his new job.

  Much love from

  Dictated by Dr. Pauling

  Signed in his absence:JH

• Letter from LP to Martin Karplus, University of Illinois, RE: Writes that he looks forward to reading some chapters from Karplus' book and that he has heard from several people about the usefulness of the book. [Filed under LP Books: Unpb.8]
• Letter from LP to Oscar Steiner, RE: LP is pleased to hear that Steiner is willing to assist in setting up a World Peace Research Organization. At the present time LP is still talking with various people about possibilities. LP thinks that it will be difficult to get the United Nations to take action that will create a world peace research organization. [Steiner's letter August 20, 1958] [Steiner's reply October 16, 1958] [Filed under LP Peace: (Materials re: World Peace Research Organization, 1958-1960), Box #6.003, Folder #3.1]
• Letter from LP to Robert V. Latour. RE: Refers him to his book No More War!. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L:Correspondence, 1958) #231.4]
• Letter from Lloyd Castleman, Lloyd Laboratories, to LP RE: Invites LP to speak at the Temple Beth El Fellowship in Lynn, Massachusetts on November 16, while LP will be in the area to speak at the Ford Hall Forum. Offers LP $150 for the talk and hopes to hear back from him. [Filed under LP Speeches: 1958s2.17]
• Letter from N. H. Pronko, University of Wichita, to LP. RE: Has recently reviewed No More War! For a magazine. Informs him that he is attending University of Cracow in the spring. Asks for a couple copies of the book to give as gifts. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (P: Correspondence, 1953-1959) #313.6]
• Letter from Virginia Gardner, to LP. RE: Asks permission to reprint an illustration from his book No More War!. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1958) #141.2]
• Letter from William J. Moll, American Broadcasting Company, to LP. RE: Invites him to be a guest on the "Bishop Pike" program. Suggests a subject. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1958) #257.3]
• Memo from LP to Arletta Townsend. RE: Requests that Dr. Norman Weliky be reappointed for one year. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (W: Correspondence, 1958) #444.6]
• Memo from LP to himself RE: Describes discussion with Dr. Stowens during his visit. [Filed under LP Science: Box #10.003, Folder #3.11]
• Photo: Linus Pauling receiving a book from Alois Stoff during a meeting against nuclear testing. October 7, 1958. Dusseldorf, Germany. Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Filed under LP Photo Box: 1958i.22]
• Statement by LP to Hughes Aircraft Company RE: Describes Dr. Gunnar Bror Bergman favorably, and praises his abilities in physics and chemistry, as well as his personal character. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Bergman, Gunnar B.), #27.12]