BIB_ID
432799
Accession number
MA 23469.2
Creator
Dukas, Helen.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1971 December 13.
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019.
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Preceded by a signed and dated note reading "Dear Jeremy, here are my corrections at first glance. Regards, Helen."
There are two copies of the first two pages in the typescript.
Contains minor autograph additions.
Bernstein's article was published in two parts in the New Yorker in the March 10 and March 17, 1973 issues.
Acquired with April 23, 1968 letter from Dukas to Bernstein about Einstein's religious affiliation, cataloged as MA 23469.1.
There are two copies of the first two pages in the typescript.
Contains minor autograph additions.
Bernstein's article was published in two parts in the New Yorker in the March 10 and March 17, 1973 issues.
Acquired with April 23, 1968 letter from Dukas to Bernstein about Einstein's religious affiliation, cataloged as MA 23469.1.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2502, lot 107, 21 March 2019.
Summary
Offering detailed corrections, keyed with page numbers, to Parts I and II of Bernstein's article. Topics covered include dates, names, and facts about Einstein's family and education, his development of the theory of relativity and other scientific work, his emigration to the United States, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, and his later years. Dukas provides information on matters such as Einstein's copying out of his original article on the theory of relativity for a War Bond Rally in 1944, his musical talents, and how anti-Semitism affected his early scientific career.
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