Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (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, 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 mild toning, as well as 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 Adolf 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 the gentleman referenced here—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. Despite the inability expressed here to “get involved with an interview,” perhaps Einstein was successful in obtaining affidavits from Watters, no doubt affectionately referred to in this letter as “an old miser.”
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