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George Gamow Signed Letters

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George Gamow Signed Letters

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Auction Date:2020 Dec 09 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:15th Floor WeWork, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, 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
Three autograph letters by George Gamow, two signed "G. Gamow" and one with signature clipped out and absent, each one page, dated from 1953–1957. Gamow writes to Cambridge astronomer Arthur Beer concerning his contribution, 'The Physics of the Expanding Universe' to the 1955 volume of essays Vistas in Astronomy. The first, (with signature removed), in part: "This is just to let you know that I am back home, and start working on my article for Stratton volume. It will be called: 'Physics of Expanding Universe.'" The second, signed "G. Gamow" at the conclusion and as part of the return address, November 29, 1953, in part: "I hope you haven't been too mad with my after getting the m.s. untyped, uncorrected, ect…The point is that I was going for a ten day's trip, and decided that I better send it off as is…I hope you will find it not to difficult to correct spelling, and to type it in Cambridge." The third, also signed "G. Gamow" at the conclusion and as part of the return address, May 20, 1957, in part: "I notice that the IId vol. of Vistas containing my article on cosmology now published…May I expect to receive a presentation copy of that volume, and may be some reprints of the article?" Beers's retained carbon copies of his letters to Gamow are interleaved and stapled together to the earlier letters. In overall fine condition, with the signature clipped off and missing from one of the letters.