![EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Frederick May Eliot, Princeton, 21 January 1953. [With:] EINSTEIN. Typed statement signed ("A. Einstein"), n.d. Together 2 pages, 4to, embossed personal stationery. With a late photo of Einstein.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02717_0135_000(einstein_albert_typed_letter_signed_to_frederick_may_eliot_princeton_2045450).jpg?w=1)
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Frederick May Eliot, Princeton, 21 January 1953. [With:] EINSTEIN. Typed statement signed ("A. Einstein"), n.d. Together 2 pages, 4to, embossed personal stationery. With a late photo of Einstein.
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein"), to Frederick May Eliot, Princeton, 21 January 1953. [With:] EINSTEIN. Typed statement signed ("A. Einstein"), n.d. Together 2 pages, 4to, embossed personal stationery. With a late photo of Einstein.
WITH A DIG AT THE EXCESSES OF MCCARTHY-ERA AMERICA, EINSTEIN EXTOLS THE VIRTUES OF THE BEACON PRESS
"I am sending you enclosed the requested statement," Einstein tells Eliot, the president of the American Unitarian Association. "The last time I have sent you some words of recommendation for one of your books (The Devil's Chemists), one of your collaborators made such an excellent translation into English of my German text that I am taking the liberty to send you also this time my text in German." The accompanying text (translated) reads in full: "The Beacon Press, as an organ of the American Unitarian Association, is an extremely important institution in the U.S.A. today. Its publications, across a wide range of important subjects, make a needed contribution to the improvement of the moral tone of public life. It is able to do this all the more effectively because no one questions the motives of the Unitarian Association. Its work is not tainted by any political partisanship. If it should be possible in these times to see a successful revival of the American spirit, it would be due in great part to the courageous work of the Unitarian Association and the Beacon Press." Einstein's reference to the "moral tone of public life" was clearly a nod to the reckless smears by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the broader attacks in the early 1950s against leftist teachers, writers and intellectuals--assaults on civil liberties and academic freedom which Einstein deplored. Together 2 items.
WITH A DIG AT THE EXCESSES OF MCCARTHY-ERA AMERICA, EINSTEIN EXTOLS THE VIRTUES OF THE BEACON PRESS
"I am sending you enclosed the requested statement," Einstein tells Eliot, the president of the American Unitarian Association. "The last time I have sent you some words of recommendation for one of your books (The Devil's Chemists), one of your collaborators made such an excellent translation into English of my German text that I am taking the liberty to send you also this time my text in German." The accompanying text (translated) reads in full: "The Beacon Press, as an organ of the American Unitarian Association, is an extremely important institution in the U.S.A. today. Its publications, across a wide range of important subjects, make a needed contribution to the improvement of the moral tone of public life. It is able to do this all the more effectively because no one questions the motives of the Unitarian Association. Its work is not tainted by any political partisanship. If it should be possible in these times to see a successful revival of the American spirit, it would be due in great part to the courageous work of the Unitarian Association and the Beacon Press." Einstein's reference to the "moral tone of public life" was clearly a nod to the reckless smears by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the broader attacks in the early 1950s against leftist teachers, writers and intellectuals--assaults on civil liberties and academic freedom which Einstein deplored. Together 2 items.