"The Committee [on Medical Research] was favorably disposed toward the project and were unanimous in the thought that if any one could accomplish such a result you would have to be the one."
A. N. Richards. Letter to Linus Pauling. May 8, 1942.

"I have just heard, unofficially, that the Committee on Blood Substitutes of the National Research Council has sent you a recommendation that all projects concerned with gelatine as a possible blood substitute be discontinued."
A. N. Richards. Letter to Linus Pauling. May 8, 1944.

"The recommendation of the NRC Committee was that [your contract] not be extended and the CMR, acting in accordance with it, voted not to extend."
A. N. Richards. Letter to Linus Pauling. May 14, 1944.

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