Letter from Linus Pauling to G. A. Nugent. November 1, 1960. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Bill from the Mineralogical Society of America to LP. [Filed under LP Biographical:(California Institute of Technology: Assorted Financial Materials, 1945-1965), Box#1.032, Folder#32.6]
• Check from LP to Bennett Travel Agency for $266.26.  [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]
• Check from LP to Magnetic Tape Duplicators for $65.78.  [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]
• Check from LP to Mrs. Joan Harris for $155.00.  [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]
• Check from LP to R. Dale Haskin for $1,500.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, January 1960-December 1961), Box #4.026, Folder #26.1]
• Check from LP to Syd Cassyd for $666.67.  [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]
• LP Notes to Self: Pacific Institute for Advanced Study. [Filed under LP Science: (Pacific Institute for Advanced Study, 1948-1960), Box #14.036, Folder #36.3]
• Letter (handwritten in German) from Albert Schweitzer, to LP. RE: Asks about the subcommittee hearings. Is shocked that they are taking place. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Schweitzer, Albert, 1960) #360a.4]
• Letter from A. E. Hindle, Radio Corporation of America, to Syd Cassyd, CIT. RE: Confirms the telephone conversation regarding LP's recording. Gives a price estimate. [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Box # 1960s2 Folder #1960s2.8]
• Letter from AHP to Annalee RE: Encloses two dollars to subscribe to Annalee's newspaper. AHP discusses how disappointed she was that the Board meeting did not take to the idea of having the international congress involve women from everywhere. Asks Annalee for her ideas on whether or not they should go ahead with an international congress. Briefly talks about her conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Personal, N-Z: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from AHP to Anne Frey RE: AHP briefly discusses how LP's victory over the Subcommittee was a catastrophe for the peace movement. Also talks about the dinner in honor of Dr. Uphaus hosted by Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Mentions Mr. Cousins and his meeting with some Russians. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.2]     
• Letter from AHP to Dr. and Mrs. John Caughey RE: Thanks them for sending her the extra issue of Frontier and the clippings. Discusses how she and LP and glad that the hearings are over and glad that they were a victory for her and LP. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.1]     
• Letter from AHP to Gertrude Baer RE: Tells Baer that the national Board meeting in Philadelphia was discouraging since Dr. Pell said the WILPF could not issue an invitation to women all over the world to come to an international congress. Discusses LP's case before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. AHP does not know why she hasn't received a report of the international meeting. [Filed under AHP: AHP: Individual Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.005, Folder #5.6]     
• Letter from AHP to Jean Dan, Ochanomizu University RE: Thanks Dan for her letter from October 11th. Discusses their victory over the Internal Subcommittee as well as AHP's success in interesting James Newman of the Scientific American to publish a good review of Dan's book. AHP asks Dan for a calendar and plates. [Filed under AHP: AHP: Individual Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.005, Folder #5.14]     
• Letter from AHP to Katherine M. Arnett RE: AHP was disappointed that WILPF is not willing to call women everywhere to come to their international congress and asks Arnett's opinions on the matter. AHP is determined to do what she can to bring about peace. [Note from Arnett to AHP November 14, 1960] [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.1]             
• Letter from AHP to Lucile Pauling [Jenkins] RE: Appreciates what she is going through with her broken wrist since his broke about ten years ago. Tells her to use her hand and fingers each day so that her hand does not become stiff and useless. Shares that LP had a complete victory with the Subcommittee. Invites her to come and to ranch and to spend Christmas with them. [Letter from Jenkins to AHP October 17, 1960] [Filed under LP Biographical: Family Correspondence: Frances Lucile Pauling [Jenkins], 1922-1992: Box #5.053, Folder #53.13]
• Letter from AHP to Mrs. Reginald Faletti [Katharine] RE: AHP was happy to hear from her and is glad that she belongs to the American Civil Liberties Union. AHP is also glad that Faletti supports LP's stand against the Internal Security Subcommittee. They will call Faletti the next time they are in Santa Barbara. [Note from Faletti to AHP October 11, 1960] [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.2]
• Letter from AHP to Pat [Mrs. P.G. Briggs] RE: Thanks Pat and Merton for allowing her to stay over night as well as for taking her to the pub. Advises Pat to get a smaller place for her and Merton. Suggests that Pat get a weaving machine. Tells Pat that she will be on television on November 14th for an interview with Marie Torre titled "Woman's Role in Peace." [Filed under AHP: AHP's Siblings: Genealogy, Biographical Information, and Correspondence: Box #3.026, Folder #24.8]
• Letter from AHP to Ruth RE: There are two letters to Ruth. The first letter thanks Ruth for letting her and LP stay in her Penthouse and AHP apologizes for not getting better acquainted with Laurie. AHP also explains why she left her glasses and says that they have not heard from Peter Charlton. In the second letter AHP expresses her disappointment that the people at the meeting acted coldly towards Ruth. AHP also says they might have liked her [AHP] better had she not been wearing a fur coat. AHP and LP hope to see Ruth again. AHP tells Ruth about all the people who visited them while they were at her house. [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Personal, N-Z: Box #1.002, Folder #2.3]
• Letter from AHP to Sarah Campion RE: AHP will write in support of Campion's Jane Addams project. AHP discusses her trip East and her attendance at the national Board of the W.I.L. Discusses her and LP's victory before the Senate Internal Subcommittee. Asks Campion to write to her about her ideas about women in New Zealand coming to a conference in the U.S. and speaks further about this W.I.L. conference. Talks about how Eleanor Roosevelt seems to be against the W.I.L. [Letter from Campion to AHP October 19, 1960] [Filed under AHP: AHP: General Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.004, Folder #4.1]
• Letter from Basil O'Connor to LP RE: Would appreciate it if LP sent him a copy of his speech on the subject of "aging and death." [Letter from LP to O'Connor November 9, 1960] [Filed under LP Science: (The National Foundation, 1959-1962), Box #14.024, Folder #24.1]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, Secretary to LP, to Clennie B. Sharp. RE: Informs her that LP did not speak from a manuscript when he talked before the California Library Association. Informs her that she will send one once a typescript has been made. [Letter from Sharp October 10, 1960] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Box #1960s2 Box #1960s2.13]
• Letter from Joan R. Harris, to Yukio Kuritz, Duke University. RE: Encloses a flier for LP's book No More War!. [Postcard from Kurita October 4, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1960) #201.4]
• Letter from John Edgar, to LP. RE: Informs him that he is living in Mexico, living off the profits of his writing. Asks him to send a reprint on protein structure for a friend of his working on vegetable proteins. Informs him that he remembers his financial obligation to LP and will clear it. [Letter from LP November 11, 1960]  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1960) Box # 113 Folder # 113.1]
• Letter from Joseph Baar to LP RE: Shares that he is seventeen and just finished his book No More War!, and is glad to find that there are more humanitarians than he could have ever dreamed. Subscribes fully to the idea that there be a Secretary for Peace. Thanks him for his work towards peace. [Letter from LP to Baar November 8, 1960] [Filed Under LP Biographical: (Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box #2.018, Folder #18.1]             
• Letter from LP to Dr. Gordon A. Alles RE: informs him that he will be unavailable for the opening of his laboratory. Thanks him for his part in giving the lab to the California Institute of Technology. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1960), #13.3]
• Letter from LP to Frank Crow, Secretary, L.A. Committee from A Sane Nuclear Policy, RE: Encloses a statement that he might be willing to include in his mailing to the Committee of 500. [Letter from Crow to LP October 20, 1960] [Filed under LP Biographical: (Assorted Materials re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1964), Box #2.020, Folder #20.2]
• Letter from LP to G. A. Nugent. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1960) # 288.4]

  1 November 1960

  Mr. G. A. Nugent

  Nugent and Nugent

  Washington Building

  Washington 5, D.C.

  Dear Mr. Nugent:

  I judge from what you have sent me that you are calling me a Communist. You probably know that this is actionable, but I do not think that you are worth my troubling myself.

  Have you read the transcript of my hearing before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee? I was shocked that a committee of the United States Senate should behave in such an unprincipled way. When I brought the matter up at my second hearing, Senator Dodd laid the blame on his staff, saying that none of the Senators, including himself, had seen the material.

  I am sending some information about this Subcommittee to you under separate cover.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  Dear Dr. Pauling:

  Well, are you a communist? If not, I am at a loss to entirely understand why you persist in giving support and comfort to commie causes, and publicly associating with such a group of branded persons.

  Yes, I have read part of the record you have made before Cong gressional committees, the Supreme Court, ads in the Washington Post and The New York Times, and now publicity on the coming Oslo meeting. I can only repeat my original comment, "you should be forever ashamed of yourself."

  Yours truly,

  G. A. Nugent

• Letter from LP to G.A. Nugent RE: States that him thinking he is a Communist is not worth him troubling himself. Asks if he has read the transcript of his hearing before the committee. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Assorted Materials re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1964), Box #2.020, Folder #20.3]
• Letter from LP to Gentlemen of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee RE: Makes claims regarding his hearing before the subcommittee on 11 October 1960.  Says that the addition of certain sections to the record is unjust and false. [Filed under LP Books: Unpb12.1]
• Letter from LP to John Kendrew. RE: Is committed to giving a lecture in Cincinnati on the day that the Alles laboratory is dedicated. [Filed under LP Correspondence:(Kendrew, John) #197.16]
• Letter from LP to Mel Valois RE: Shares appreciation for the care of the house. Asks if he has subtracted the costs of the materials for the house and pump station from the payment due to him. [Filed under LP Biographical: Deer Flat Ranch: Correspondence, 1957-1995: Box #4.047, Folder #47.1]and [copy][Filed under LP Biographical: Assorted Bills, Receipts and Invoices, 1951-1962: Box #4.060, Folder #60.5]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Valois, RE:  LP thanks him for sending a check of $114.00 along with the statement about the new pump.  LP is glad to learn that he is working on the inside of the house and LP asks if costs associated with that have been subtracted yet from the payment to LP.  [Filed under LP Biographical:  (Business and Financial:  Assorted Bills, Receipts, and Invoices, 1951-1962), Box #4.060, Folder #60.5]
• Letter from LP to Professor Beadle, RE: Regrets that he will be unable to attend the dedication of the Alles laboratory. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (George W. Beadle), 27.2]
• Letter from LP to Ralph R. Lashbrook, Kansas State University. RE: Suggests that the title of his talk be 'Chemistry in Relation to Biology and Medicine'. Asks him to reserve a hotel room for him and AHP. [Letter from Lashbrook October 28, 1960]  [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP) Box #1960s3 Folder #1960s3.8]
• Letter from LP to the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate RE: Addition to Record of Statements Not Read at the October 11 Subcommittee Hearing. [LP Biographical: (Statements and Correspondence Made Public re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960), Box# 2.016, Folder# 16.10]
• Letter from Lawrence F. Conant, Jr., Psychological Consultant, to LP, RE: Requests the attendance of LP at the Calaveras Teachers' Institute. [Letter from Lawrence F. Conant to LP, January 8, 1961][Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1961-1962), #76.1]
• Letter from Milton Leitenberg, to LP. RE: Encloses a manuscript. [Letter from LP December 22, 1960] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1960) #231.6]
• Letter from Murray Goodman, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, to LP. RE: Requests that LP send him the title of his talk. Informs him that Professor Debye's talk will be entitled 'Structure and Interaction of Polymers by Physical Methods'. Asks if he needs hotel reservations. [Letter from Harris November 2, 1960] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by LP, 1960) Box #1960s3 Folder #1960s3.19]                     
• Letter from Stewart Meacham to LP, RE: Meacham would like to know if LP can set aside two weeks of his time in either October/November of 1961 or February through April of 1962 to speak to the American Friends Service Committee.  Meacham notes that a $300.00 honorarium per week is guaranteed and that the AFSC will pay for LP's travel expenses.  [LP's reply December 13, 1960] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Am), Box #4.009, Folder #9.4]     
• Memo from LP to Syd Cassyd. RE: Asks him to get his copy of Abrams hearing from Ziferstein. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Cassyd, Syd) #57.15]
• Periodical Clippings: "The Inquisition", Between the Lines. November 1, 1960. [LP Biographical: (Mounted Newspaper Clippings and Correspondence re: Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, 1960-1961), Box #2.021, Folder #21.9]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP RE: "Receipt Portion."  For a deposit.  $244.00.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.1]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP RE: "Receipt Portion."  For a deposit.  $601.75.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.1]
• Receipt from First Western Bank to LP and AHP RE: Deposit receipt. $1,237.92.  [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.030, Folder #30.1]
• letter from AHP to Dr. Günther Anders RE: Informs Anders that the hearing ended in victory for them and that LP was not cited for contempt. Discusses the negative effects of the Internal Subcommittee hearings. AHP is grateful that Anders sent them the message from Eatherly's letter and wishes there was something she could do for him. [Letters from Anders to LP and AHP October 19, 1960, October 22, 1960, November 16, 1960] [Filed under AHP: AHP: Individual Correspondence, Peace and Political: Box #1.005, Folder #5.4]