Auction Date:2010 Sep 15 @ 22:00 (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, August 12, 1941. Einstein writes to his Russian-American friend, the conductor, violinist, and musicologist Boris Schwarz. In part (translated): “I offer you my sincere congratulations and I am also happy for your wife that she has found such a fine boy. I am enclosing a copy of my letter to Mr. Keffer and ask that you also send my sincere greetings to your dear parents…P.S. Naturally, I am prepared to speak for your dear father at any time.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds and a tiny tear along one fold line, light handling wear, and a faint rusty paperclip impression at the top edge. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope and the aforementioned copy of a letter to Dr. E. Brooks Keffer in which Einstein resigned as a member of the advisory board of the Settlement Music School because “I feel not [sic] longer able to take the moral responsibility for the measures taken by the executive management of the School.”
Einstein had been a member of the Board of Advisors and a regular chamber music participant at Settlement Music School until 1941 when, as noted here, he resigned. The school, founded in 1908, was a community music education organization with branches in and around Philadelphia. Einstein’s decision to leave amidst concerns over “moral responsibility” is interesting, as the mission of the Settlement School has involved spreading musical appreciation. Whatever the reason, his strong-willed stance is evident here...although short-lived, as Einstein later rejoined the organization.
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