EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed (“A. Einstein”), to Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), Pasadena, California, 1932. 2 pages, 8vo, Athenaeum letterhead.
EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed (“A. Einstein”), to Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), Pasadena, California, 1932. 2 pages, 8vo, Athenaeum letterhead. EINSTEIN HAS SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT VISITING A POLITICAL PRISONER AND CANCELS A VISIT TO BERKELEY “It’s going to be impossible for me to come to Berkeley after all,” he writes Schlick. “The reason is most peculiar. I receive many letters entreating me to visit Tom Mooney in prison, which I pledged to do last year. If I don’t do it, it’s a terrible [insult] to him, for which I don’t want to be responsible. But if I were to visit him, it would be the cause of such bitterness to so many, and stir up so dreadfully much dust, that it would again be lamentable and unpleasant, without being very useful. Thus, the only possible solution is for me not to go [to Berkeley] at all, painful though it is to me to have to withdraw my acceptance.” After his first visit to America in 1930-31, Einstein wrote the governor of California from Berlin, urging him to pardon Mooney, a prominent Socialist labor leader whose wrongful conviction for a July 1916 bombing in San Francisco made him an international cause celebre. Mooney in turn wrote Einstein urging him to visit him at San Quentin. Now, having left Germany for good and become even more prominent as a public figure, but with no country as yet to call his home, Einstein decides that diplomatic discretion is called for. Also, during his prior visit to Berkeley, Einstein had been less than enchanted with his fellow Nobel laureate Robert A. Millikan, whose conservative nationalism clashed with Einstein's leftist pacifism. Mooney, whose conviction was obtained on perjured testimony amid an emotionally excited atmosphere of anti-radical bigotry, would ultimately receive a pardon in 1939.
EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed (“A. Einstein”), to Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), Pasadena, California, 1932. 2 pages, 8vo, Athenaeum letterhead.
EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed (“A. Einstein”), to Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), Pasadena, California, 1932. 2 pages, 8vo, Athenaeum letterhead. EINSTEIN HAS SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT VISITING A POLITICAL PRISONER AND CANCELS A VISIT TO BERKELEY “It’s going to be impossible for me to come to Berkeley after all,” he writes Schlick. “The reason is most peculiar. I receive many letters entreating me to visit Tom Mooney in prison, which I pledged to do last year. If I don’t do it, it’s a terrible [insult] to him, for which I don’t want to be responsible. But if I were to visit him, it would be the cause of such bitterness to so many, and stir up so dreadfully much dust, that it would again be lamentable and unpleasant, without being very useful. Thus, the only possible solution is for me not to go [to Berkeley] at all, painful though it is to me to have to withdraw my acceptance.” After his first visit to America in 1930-31, Einstein wrote the governor of California from Berlin, urging him to pardon Mooney, a prominent Socialist labor leader whose wrongful conviction for a July 1916 bombing in San Francisco made him an international cause celebre. Mooney in turn wrote Einstein urging him to visit him at San Quentin. Now, having left Germany for good and become even more prominent as a public figure, but with no country as yet to call his home, Einstein decides that diplomatic discretion is called for. Also, during his prior visit to Berkeley, Einstein had been less than enchanted with his fellow Nobel laureate Robert A. Millikan, whose conservative nationalism clashed with Einstein's leftist pacifism. Mooney, whose conviction was obtained on perjured testimony amid an emotionally excited atmosphere of anti-radical bigotry, would ultimately receive a pardon in 1939.
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