Auction Date:2011 Jun 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS in German, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.5 x 11, July 13, 1938. Letter to Mrs. Alice Kohn, of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, in Pleasantville, N.Y. In full (translated): “I have in favor your fiancé respective to his affidavits on an attempt undertaken on an old miser. As soon as I have achieved something, I will send news to you. Unfortunately, I cannot get involved with an interview.” A uniform block of faint toning small stain to blank area, and some scattered light foxing and creasing, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
The fiance of this letter’s original recipient was Kurt Pinczower, the former editor of The Jewish Magazine, an entertainment periodical published in Berlin. Pinczower had escaped the Nazis in 1933, moving to Czechoslovakia, where he was living at the time of this letter. Although Einstein received countless requests such as this, each pleading for assistance to those fleeing Hitler’s tyranny, he was unable to fully help most who sought his influence. In this exception, Einstein at least tries to enlist the aid of an “old miser”—likely Leon L. Watters, a successful New York businessman and chemist whom Einstein considered a close friend. Records show that in 1938, Pinczower traveled to London and in 1940 arrived in the United States. In that same year, Kohn’s Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, founded in 1879, merged into the Jewish Child Care Association of New York. Despite the inability expressed here to “get involved with an interview,” Einstein was evidently willing to try other means to be of assistance.
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