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December 21, 1953
 
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  • LP and AHP check into the Biltmore Hotel in New York. [Receipt, checkout 12-22-53].
  • Letter from the Executive Secretary of Gates and Crellin Labs to U.P. Basu, Indian Science Congress Association RE: sending at LP's request abstracts of lectures he plans to give while in India. [Reply to letter from Basu to LP 8-5-53].
  • Letter from Alvin Meckler of M.I.T. Department of Physics, to LP RE: thanks LP for his letter of 11-30-52. In answer to LP's enquiry, discusses hybridization of the sigma bond orbital. Refers to LP's proposal of 1931 in relation to a "Table 9." Says that nitrogen and carbon monoxide may become projects for him.
  • Letter from Dr. E. A. Moelwyn-Hughes of the Dept of Physical Chemistry of the University of Cambridge, to LP RE: thanks LP for his letter and for the reprint of his paper with Dr. Marsh on the structure of chlorine hydrate. Sends a reprint of another paper. [letter from LP to Dr. Moelwyn-Hughes 12-14-53] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #197: file (Moelwyn-Hughes)].
  • Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Dr. Richard F. Baker RE: Asking on LP's behalf if Dr. Baker would be willing to participate in the Friday Evening Lectures. [Related memo from EC Watson to LP 9-11-53]
  • Letter from Beatrice Wulf to W.H. Corcoran RE: Asking on LP's behalf if Corcoran would be willing to give one of the Friday Evening Lectures. [Related memo from EC Watson to LP 9-11-53]
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