Letter from Linus Pauling to Norman Thomas. October 30, 1963. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Brown and Welin RE: $9.95.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from AHP to Mayacamas Vineyards RE: $93.60.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from AHP to SOCO-Western RE: $28.18.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from AHP to The White House RE: $28.54.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from AHP to the National Parks Association RE: $15.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP December 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]
• Check from AHP to the Southern California Edison Co. RE: $31.31.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Check from LP to Mrs. Lena B. Evans RE: $2,100.00.  [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP November 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.028, Folder #28.1]
• Executed Contract Resume from G. M. Canetta to R. T. Baker, cc. LP RE: Contract #Nonr-220 (38), Amendment #6, Chemistry 49, Account #65070, contract total $315,000.  Info copy of Amendment attached. [Filed under LP Biographical: Materials re: C.I.T. Assorted Financial Materials, 1945-1965 Box #1.032, Folder #32.5]               
• Handwritten letter from Arun K. Gangopadhyay to LP RE:  Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]
• Handwritten letter from Otto Riedel to LP RE: (In German) Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.3]
• Letter form Caroline Tuttle, Middlebury College Conference, to LP RE: Extends an invitation for him to speak in the 22nd Annual Middlebury Conference. Provides information on the conference.  [Letter from LP to Tuttle November 15, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M:Correspondence, 1963), #159.2]
• Letter from AHP to Irving Laucks RE: Thanks Laucks for his essay he sent on women’s work.  States that she wishes that he might have been more explicit in his leaflet and goes onto to discuss her own personal feminist values.   [Filed under AHP Individual Correspondence, Peace and Political: (Correspondence: Laucks, Irving F., 1963-1967), Box#1.006, Folder#6.3]
• Letter from AHP to LP. RE: Invites him to take part in a panel discussion on mental retardation at the Unitarian Forum on May 1, 1964. Offers him an honorarium of $75. [Letter from LP October 30, 1963] [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s Folder #1964s.16] 
• Letter from Berl Golomb to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]
• Letter from Crellin Pauling to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box 5.048, Folder 48.8]

  30 October 1963

  Dear Peter:

  Your Olympia typewriter cum carbon ribbon types quite nicely. Almost as nicely as our departments IBM's. Alas, I am at home and the IBM's are at school, so I must be satisfied with the old Smith-Corona.

  I am not sure what is happening either. Mama mentioned that she thought Daddy was going to invite one or both of us to go to Oslo, but we haven't heard from Daddy as yet. Needless to say, we would like very much to go. I think that Daddy is pretty pleased, but he gave me the impression of being most pleased by the fact that a test ban has in fact been negotiated and deposited. He said that he is certain that it is not coincidence that the Nobel prize was announced on the day that the test ban became formally in force, 10 October. There was a rather unsavory editorial in Life Magazine.

  A young man, who lives down the street and rides to school with me, just happened to run over his brother's bicycle some time ago, and gave me the rear wheel, cum coaster brake. Unfortunately the axle is a little bent, but I am reasonably certain I can pick up a new axle easily. Hence, I think your coaster brake situation is well in hand, and I will bring and/or send it after I get a new axle.

  I think that the cheapest way from here to Europe is to go to Vancouver and fly tricholoroacetic airlines (TCA) to London. If that is in fact true we ought to make some attempt to join forces In London and fly on to Oslo together. By Caravelle, of course. The alternative would be to go to Pasadena first, and all go together on SAS. In any event, I (we?) should like to visit you in London.

  About a month ago I embarked on a slightly different experimental approach to my general problem, and happened across a quite interesting effect. With luck I will get a ms off within a month or two, just on the recent stuff. A couple of months ago I went to the Genetics Society meetings, and gave a little talk that I think didn't go too badly. The stuff I gave at the meetings will make another little paper, but there are a few ambiguities that need to be cleared up first, and to do that I have to build some sticks, which is not difficult, nor particularly time consuming, but requires a bit of manipulation. On the way back from the meetings I flew in a Caravelle from Hartford, Conn., to Chicago, and am convinced that that is the most comfortable airplane there is.

  I don't know what the situation is on the Merc. Mama said that she didn't really want to be bothered, and couldn't spend much time on it, and I am here, kind of out of touch. I suggested to my friend Al Jacobsen, who has a 300-sl and doesn't particularly like it, that if he could unload it he might get a modest commission, but in as much as he is rather busy I doubt that he will do much. I suggest you deal with Linus. He has expressed renewed interest in it, giving forth with such sentiment as "It would be a shame for it to leave the family", and such. In the event that we a) go to Europe, and b) go to Pasadena first I will see what I can do while I'm there.

  Much love from

  Crellin

• Letter from Dr. Bodo Manstein to LP RE: (In German) Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. [Letter from LP to Manstein December 4, 1963] [Letter from LP to  [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]
• Letter from Frederick D. Rossini, University of Notre Dame, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Asks for a copy of LP’s address at the Centennial Celebration of the National Academy of Sciences. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h5, Folder #1963h5.3]               
• Letter from Genzaburo Yoshino, Iwanami Shoten Publishers, to LP RE: Sends LP an article on the issue of War and Peace.  Requests that LP look over the article and respond to a related questionnaire.  Emphasizes questions of particular interest which LP should respond to. Enclosed is the article, “Why We Japanese Lay Special Importance on the Problem of World Peace.” [Letter from LP to Yoshino December 10, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1963) #185.24]
• Letter from J. Guastalla to Dr. Emile Zuckerkandl RE: Written in French.  Guastalla informs Zuckerkandl that although the analyzer of amino acids will arrive in two months he has requested it stay in Paris until the conditions of the building get better.  [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Zuckerkandl, Emile, 1958-1980) #465.6]
• Letter from Johanne Reutz Gjermoe to LP RE: Congratulates LP on his Nobel Peace Prize.  Commends him for his peace keeping efforts. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence) #142.2]
• Letter from LP [Signed by Helen Gilrane] to Carolyn S. Ensor, RE: In response to her request, LP apologizes and says that due to his schedule he will not be able to speak at DePauw University. [Letter from Ensor to LP October 15, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence), #99.4]  
• Letter from LP [Signed by Helen Gilrane] to Louis H. Winer, President, Conference of Jewish Women’s Organization, RE: Thanks her for the honor of being bestowed the Conference of Jewish Women’s Organization Conference Humanitarian Award. Also says that he will be present to attend the January 23, 1964 meeting. [Letter from Winer to LP October 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1] 
• Letter from LP [Signed by Katherine P. Cassady] to Kenneth Ziebarth, Wesley Foundation, Christian Faith and Life Community, RE: Thanks the Wesley Foundation for inviting him to speak in Boseman, Billings, and Missoula within the next six months. Says that he cannot not make commitments in addition to this and apologizes for not accepting the request at the moment. [Letter from October 16, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]  
• Letter from LP to Arne Tiselius, University of Uppsala RE: Has decided to come to Stockholm on Dec. 18 and stay for a few days. Is willing to speak at a public meeting sponsored by all of the Swedish peace groups. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Materials re: Nobel Peace Prize, 1963), Box #1963h2, Folder #1963h2.2] 
• Letter from LP to Benjamin Dreyfus, National Lawyers Guild, RE: Informs that he is glad to have the booklet. Doubts he will be able to comment or contribute and essay due to his burden of work. [Letter from Dreyfus to LP August 9, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1963), #288.7]
• Letter from LP to David L. Graham RE: Thanks Graham for his letter of congratulations and for having written the statement that appeared in the Brunswick Record. [Letter from Graham to LP October 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.7]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Joseph Winkler RE: Thanks Winkler for his letter of congratulations and also for the articles. Says that he criticizes the moon race in general, not just the United States’ part in it. [Letter from Winkler to LP October 24, 1993] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h6, Folder #1963h6.2]       
• Letter from LP to Dr. Rinderkneckt RE: LP suggests that Rinderkneckt take his earned three week vacation before the end of his nine month appointment. [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Individual Correspondence (Rimland-Robeson): Box #330 Folder #330.3] 
• Letter from LP to Emil Wojtaszek, International Institute for Peace, RE: Thanks them for the article from Santiago de Chile. [Letter from Wojtaszek October 23, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N:Correspondence, 1963), #288.7] 
• Letter from LP to Gustav Heiberg, Consul of Norway RE: Thanks Heiberg for his letter of congratulations. Accepts Heiberg’s dinner invitation for the evening of November 29. [Letter form Heiberg to LP October 28, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.1]
• Letter from LP to Herbert Rosenfeld RE: LP and AHP accept Rosenfeld’s invitation and will be attending the reception on December 1st at the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences [Letters from Rosenfeld to LP October 28, 1963, November 26, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: R: Individual Correspondence (Rosebaud-Rundle): Box #336 Folder #336.2]
• Letter from LP to J.D. Bernal, RE: LP and AHP thank the world council for the invitation to attend the meeting Warsaw in late November.  However, LP and AHP have decided not to accept the invitation.  LP and AHP feel that they can contribute more to the peace movement as individuals rather than as participants in larger organizations.  [Letter from Bernal October 25, 1963] [Filed under LP Peace: (Assorted Peace Groups, Wo-Yo), Box #4.017, Folder #17.1]
• Letter from LP to Jens Chr. Manniche, Aarhus Universitet, RE: Regrets that he cannot accept their invitation because he has decided not to stop in Denmark on his way to or from Oslo. [Letter from Manniche to LP October 10, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M: Correspondence, 1963), #259.2] 
• Letter from LP to Louis [correctly spelled Lewis] Slack RE: Asks Lewis to send him his lantern slides which he forgot and apologizes for the trouble. Also suggests that a filter between the carbon arc of the projector and the slides would extend the amount of time the slides could be shown before they got overheated. [Letter from Slack to LP November 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.5] 
• Letter from LP to M.S. Arnoni, Editor, The Minority of One, RE: Requests that he send a copy of the Minority of One to three people. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M.S. Arnoni), #6.15]  
• Letter from LP to Melvin Calvin RE: LP notes corrections in Calvin’s introduction of LP at the National Academy of Sciences Centennial Celebration so that they can be corrected when the lectures are published. Handwritten on top of page: “National Academy of Sciences”. [Filed under LP Science: National Academy of Sciences, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.5] 
• Letter from LP to Norman Thomas.  [Filed under LP Peace: (Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, 1957-1965, 1991), Box #4.008, Folder #8.7]

  30 October 1963

  Dr. Norman Thomas

  112 East Nineteenth Street

  New York 3, New York

  Dear Dr. Thomas:

  I am sorry that you have the opinion, as expressed in your letter to me, that Professor Yasui has a double standard for judging the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

  I have known Professor Yasui for several years, and have observed with interest his great efforts in the cause of peace. I have formed the opinion that he has been truly extraordinary in his ability to adhere to the principle of not having a double standard of this sort, and in opposing those people who do have a double standard.

  It is especially difficult for the Japanese people to adhere to this principle, because of the exposure that they have to the militarism of the United States, the consequence of our repudiation of the principle, which they had accepted in Japan, of demilitarizing Japan after the second world war.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:hpg

• Letter from LP to Peggy Porter RE: LP is not able to do anything about the atomic plant which is proposed for San Onofre.  LP is too busy with the upcoming Oslo Conference.  [Letter from Porter to LP October 28, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: P: Correspondence, 1960-1963: Box #314 Folder #314.4]
• Letter from LP to Prof. J. E. Courtois, Societe de Chimie Biologique RE: Thanks Courtois for his letter of congratulations. [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor Matowsky RE: Thanks Matowsky for his telegram of congratulations. Says that it was a pleasure to travel through Latin America with him. [Letter from Matovsky to LP October 11, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]
• Letter from LP to R.C. Truax, President, Sacramento Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, RE: States that he is unable to accept the invitation to speak before the Sacramento section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. [Letter from Truax to LP October 17, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #14.2]  
• Letter from LP to R.L. Curry, Jr., Los Angles State College, RE: Informs that he is to busy with other jobs to write an article for the Review. [Letter from Curry to LP October 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (L: Correspondence, 1961-1963), #232.3]
• Letter from LP to Richard Morgen, Department of Mental Hygiene RE: Thanks Morgen for his letter of congratulations and for the clippings. Passes on Dr. Heinrich Heesch’s comment that LP’s “mathematician” friend should send along anything about his working for map color theorem. [Letter from Morgen to LP October 11, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]
• Letter from LP to Robert S. Lehman, Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, RE: LP informs Lehman that he has no plans to be in Los Alamos in the near future. [Letter from Lehman to LP October 11, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (U: Correspondence, 1936-1970) #421.21]  
• Letter from LP to Tolbert H. McCarroll RE: Sends a photo under separate cover. Asks he if could instead get comments of his book, because he is too exhausted to provide a few comments to quote. Informs his schedule does not allow him to speak at their event. [Letter from McCarroll to LP October 14, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (M:Correspondence, 1963), #159.2] 
• Letter from LP to the Goertzels, RE: LP thinks the Goertzels might be interested in reading some of the letters of congratulation he's received about his Nobel Peace Prize; some of them contain interesting statements. [Filed under LP Biographical: Personal and Family, Box 5.009, Folder 9.1]
• Letter from Lennart Malmgren and Anna-Greta Björkander, Intresseföreningen Magelungen, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on winning the Nobel Peace Prize.  Invites LP to participate in a meeting of their society in Stockholm on nuclear problems. [Letter from LP to Bjorkander and Malmgren November 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (I: Correspondence, 1963) #185.24]
• Letter from M. Magat, Laboratoire de Chimie-Physique, to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]
• Letter from Maurice R. Cosyn, Secretary General, Action Pour Une Assemblee Constituante Mondiale (Campaign for a World Constituent Assembly), to LP RE: Congratulates LP on his Nobel Peace Prize award. Suggests that if he were every in Brussels, Cosyn would like to arrange a meeting. [Letter from LP to Cosyn November 4, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]                    
• Letter from Peter P. Bland to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Asks for his autograph. Handwritten note by LP at bottom: “Ans’d.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.2]
• Letter from Professor Troung Cong Quyen to LP RE: Written in French.  Quyen has seen LP’s signature on the open letter to President Kennedy concerning the situation in Vietnam.  Quyen praises LP for being a true American Patriot. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Q: Correspondence, 1948-1995: Box #324 Folder #324.10]
• Letter from Raul Claix, to LP RE: Rauls is a resident in Moscow and describes the deplorable conditions in Honduras - dictatorial government, poverty, concentration camps, emigration, wanton killing. He attributes all these conditions to the result of the control of the government by the United Fruit Company. He is hoping that LP will appeal to the United Nations to investigate the condition in Honduras. Written in Spanish. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]
• Letter from Raymond J. Marcus to LP RE: Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Asks what LP thinks of the book “The Origin of Races” by Coon. [Letter from LP to Marcus December 11, 1963] [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h4, Folder #1963h4.6]
• Letter from S.D. Cornell to LP RE: Encloses a check for $500 to reimburse LP for any costs incurred by him for giving a talk at the Centennial Celebration of the National Academy of Sciences. [Filed under LP Science: (National Academy of Science, 1955-1969), Box #14.021, Folder #21.5] 
• Letter from W. Grassman, Max-Planck-Institut for Eiweiss-Und, to LP RE: Written in German. Requests LP’s opinion of Dr. G. Braunitzer’s scientific and professional qualifications.  Says he is considering Braunitzer for a position at the Max-Planck-Institut. [Letter from LP to Grassman November 26, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence) #142.2]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Pauling’s Honor,” by Vida G. Greenleaf, Birmingham (Alabama) News, October 30, 1963. Handwritten note: “Thot this might be interesting reading.” [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n3, Folder #1963n3.48]
• Newspaper Clipping: “Press Treatment of Pauling,” by Beatrice Henshaw,  Ann Arbor (Michigan) News, October 30, 1963. [Filed under LP Newspaper Clippings: Newspaper Clippings, Magazine and Journal Articles related to LP, 1963: Box #1963n3, Folder #1963n3.49]
• Note from George Beadle, Office of the President, University of Chicago, to LP RE: Stating that he as included a copy of his testimony as requested by LP. [Letter from LP to Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy October 24, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (George W. Beadle), #27.2]  
• Program: “Fifth Annual Barnett R. Brickner Memorial Lecture” [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1964: Box #1964s2 Folder #1964s2.12] 
• Reprint: “Microwave Spectrum of Methinophosphide HCP” by J. K. Tyler. From Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1170-1171. [Filed under LP Books: Unpb6.1]
• letter form Artur K. Fuhrer to LP RE: (In German) Congratulates LP on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962. Handwritten note by LP at top right: “Ans’d S+P.” [Filed under LP Awards & Honors: (Nobel Peace Prize, Congratulation Letters and Telegrams, 1963), Box #1963h3, Folder #1963h3.6]