Letter from Linus Pauling to Mrs. Roy C. Kepler. June 7, 1960. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 2 pp.  View Transcript

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• Article: "Radiation Standards: Testimony at Congressional Hearings Tends to be Reassuring," Science. [Filed under LP Peace: Materials re: The Biological Effects of Radiation, 1960-1962: Box #7.016, Folder #16.5]
• Check from LP to Bennett Travel Agency for $741.95.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]  [Also filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.3]
• Invoice from Bausch & Lomb Optical Company to LP for $109.20.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Assorted Bills, Receipts and Invoices, 1951-1962), Box #4.060, Folder #60.5]
• Letter [handwritten] from Gilbert Goldstein to LP RE: Asks LP to speak on any topic of his choice before the Metropolitan Long Island Subsection, New York Section, of the American Chemical Society, providing two possible dates for his lecture. [Letter from LP to Goldstein June 16, 1960] [Filed under LP Science: (American Chemical Society; Correspondence, 1950-1964), Box #14.006, Folder #6.5]
• Letter from A. Martin Smith, to High Court of Israel. RE: Informs him of the importance of the decisions made today. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (S: Correspondence, 1960) #381.1]
• Letter from Charles D. Coryell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to LP. RE: Regrets that he will miss LP's speech at the Cambridge First Congregational Church. Thanks him for the third edition of "The Nature of the Chemical Bond". [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Coryell, Charles D.) #68.2]
• Letter from Fowler Harper to LP RE: Informs that he has arranged for the suit to be brought in New York against the New York Mirror and Kings Features. [Filed under LP Biographical: Pauling v. The Hearst Corporation and King Features Syndicate, Inc., 1960-1961: Box #3.007, Folder #7.2]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP, to John D. Stanton, La Canada Junior High School. RE: Informs him that LP was unable to record the address before he left for Europe. Thinks it might be a possibility in the fall. [Letter from Stanton May 12, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence, (S: Correspondence, 1960) #381.1]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP, to Richard Therrell. RE: Encloses a reprint of "Academic Research as a Career". [Letter from Therrell February 21, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1960) #411.5]     
• Letter from LP to Catherine Sturtevant, Cornell University Press, RE: Comments on Sturtevant's suggested corrections for the second printing of The Nature of the Chemical Bond. [Letter from Sturtevant to Hopkins June 3, 1960, Letter from Sturtevant to LP June 23, 1960] [Filed under LP Books: 1960b5.4]
• Letter from LP to Graham B. Bell RE: Thanks Bell for his letter about David Hutt and tells him that he has accepted the appointment. [Letter from Bell to LP June 6, 1960] [Filed under LP Science: (Orthomolecular Medicine and Mental Health: Materials re: Ford Foundation grants for the study of mental disorders, 19555-1966), Box #11.089, Folder #89.11]
• Letter from LP to John L. Kennedy, Princeton University. RE: Thanks him for his letter and accompanying articles. [Letter from LP May 27, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1960) #201.4]
• Letter from LP to Nobel Committee for Chemistry RE: LP states his nomination of Robert Brainard Corey for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1961 and explains why he believes Corey should receive the award. Handwritten note "Nobel" on top of page on one of the copies. [three copies] [Letter from Nobel Committee for Chemistry to LP June 20, 1960] [Filed under LP Science: (Nucleic Acid Papers, 1961-1963), Box #9.001, Folder #1.47]
• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Family Correspondence: Peter Jeffress Pauling, 1960-1974: Box #5.044, Folder #44.1]

  10 June 1960

  Dear Peter,

  Mommie and I were happy to receive your letter. We are glad that the map reached you safely, and that Thomas likes it.

  Linus and Anita and the children are due to arrive here this afternoon, and to stay two nights with us. We are looking forward to seeing them. Also, we are looking forward to seeing you and Julia and the children after we arrive in London 15 July. Our schedule now calls for us to leave for Prague on 27 July, then to go to Budapest on 3 August, to Geneva on 10 August, and to Cambridge on 14 August. Then we leave for Moscow on 20 August, and return on 16 September.

  It seems to me that I heard from you last summer that you were considering writing a book for Freeman and John Bailey on chemistry for schools. I think that you shouldn't do it unless you are eager. I am sure that there is as much need for a good hook in physics as in chemistry. I don't think that it was a good idea on my part to get interested in writing a high school textbook in chemistry. I suppose that I have an itch to fill each financial niche - like the species of animals that are supposed to fill each ecological niche. I have decided that I have a little neurosis resembling the one that affected W. C. Fields. He had had such a hard time in his youth that after he got old and rich he still had trouble to keep from worrying about money. I have decided that the bad three months that I had just after my seventeenth birthday, when I was doing pretty hard physical work but not getting enough to eat because of lack of money still bothers me to some extent. Of course, Mama and I had some trouble during the first couple of years after we were married, but nothing quite so bad as this earlier three months for me.

  Two copies of a chemistry textbook by Hiller and Herber have been sent to me by the publisher. I am sending one copy on to you, not because I think it is good, but because I think you might be amused to see how many mistakes authors can make. The drawings are especially bad, especially the tetrahedra.

  Have I told you that I am working on a theory of general anesthesia? It involves the formation of hydrate crystals in the brain. Dr. Catchpool is just beginning a series of experiments on the effect of anesthetic agents in changing the brain waves of an artificial brain, made out of gelatin. I don't know whether anything will come of this or not. I like the whole theory of anesthesia, but it is hard to think of good experiments to carry out in connection with it.

  Mama and I are thinking of buying some cattle for the ranch. We are not going to be able to get our allotment of grazing rights in the National Forest unless we own our own cattle. We are hoping now that the Forest Ranger at Salmon Creek, Ralph Haskin, will serve as our ranch manager.

  Mama and I are going to go to Boston, Dartmouth (Hanover, New Hampshire), and Washington, D.C. next week. We are making the trip primarily so that Mama can attend the national meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. I am going to give three or four talks for the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.

  We are eager to see little Sarah, as well as all the rest of you.

  love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to The Nobel Committee for Chemistry. RE: Nominates Robert Brainard Corey for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1961 for his determination of the structure of amino acids. Encloses reprints of Corey's papers. Gives details of Corey's career.  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Nobel Prize Nominations, 1960) #280.4]
• Letter from Ralph M. Feller, Insider's Newsletter, to LP. RE: Informs him that a soon to be released report by the Committee on Atomic Energy is discussed in the June 13 edition of the Insider's Newsletter. Thought he might like to make some anticipatory comments. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1960) Box # 185 Folder #185.21]
• Letter from Raymond D. Adams, Harvard Medical School, to LP. RE: Informs him that the Neurology and Pediatric Services of the Massachusetts General Hospital will open new laboratories for research in nervous diseases of children. Hopes to have a Scientific Review Committee which will meet once or twice a year to review the work of the staff. Invites him to be on the Committee. [Letter from LP July 11, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1960) # 258.2]
• Memorandum from LP to Professor Corey. RE: Asks him to answer a letter from Sutton. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Sutton, Leslie, E.) # 370.8]
• Newspaper Clipping: "Pauling Replies", Pasadena (California) Star-News, June 10, 1960. [Filed under LP Biographical: (LP Scrapbooks ,1956-1960), Box #6.007, Folder #7.626 and LP Newspaper Clippings: 1960n.13]]
• Publication by LP: Dr. Pauling replies. Pasadena Star News, June 10, 1960, 6. [Filed under LP Publications: 1960p.7]
• Stub for personal check made out to Lloyds Bank Ltd., Cambridge; Fee Intl. XP. Comp. Amount of £ 5/0/0. [Filed under LP Safe: Drawer #4, Folder #4.042]