Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : 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, blind-stamped personal letterhead, December 3, 1935. Letter to Paul Dupont, founder of Dupont Motors. In part (loosely translated): “In a non-technical way, I myself engage economic problems with great interest. My provisional words were naturally not set out for the newspapers because only when I believe that my assertions have been adequately grounded do I reveal them openly. Among the contemporary writers of this place who engage these problems, Stuart Chase has made the most impression upon me. In my creative hours, I have read his book on the state of economy.” Intersecting folds, several repairs to a vertical separation extending into text, but not affecting legibility, a light rectangular area of toning to repaired area, and a few wrinkles, otherwise fine condition.
Departing Germany as the Nazi Party came to power, Einstein arrived in the United States to witness the misery of the Great Depression. While not a politician or economist, Einstein’s concern for the fate of humanity led him to apply his analytical thought to the situation, describing his general philosophy of life and comments on the economic crisis in the 1935 book, The World as I See It. This letter, written that same year, references the scientist’s preference to, “in a non-technical way...engage economic problems with great interest.” The “book on the state of the economy” written by Chase, an American economist and engineer, was unquestionably A New Deal, published in 1931 and used as the basis for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s economic arguments and made a ‘new deal’ the focal point of his 1932 speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination. Interesting content with Einstein commenting on a subject other than the sciences.
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