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SCHWEITZER, ALBERT

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SCHWEITZER, ALBERT
(1875 - 1965) French physician and theologian, a Nobel Prize winner and specialist in tropical medicine. Good, late A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo., Lambarene, Sept. 27, 1964, in German to his biographer, noted American author Norman Cousins. In part: ""...For a long time you have no sign of life from me...Though you probably know the reason for my silence: the writer's cramp I inherited from my mother is handicapping me more as I progress with age. It takes great effort just to write legibly and there are weeks in which I cannot write at all...The hospital has become much bigger since you were here...I know how much you have worked during these years against Atomic weapons and which were your credits in the Moscow Treaty!...My hospital is now doubly as big...In 1959, I was in Europe for the last time. I don't think I will return there. And the work which has to be done here does not allow me to travel. I am continuously occupied with Philosophy...Your should know I think of you a great deal..."". Boldly penned and very good.