EINSTEIN, ALBERT Typed letter signed as "A. Einstein" to Cyril Clemens of the Mark Twain Society, single page, printed address at head of letter Berlin Haberlandstr.[asse] 5, dated 18 March 1930. 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 21.5 cm); three lines typed with purple ribbon declining membership in the Society because Mussolini had been made honorary president. Usual folds, two short (approximately half-inch) tears in both left and right margins, the original envelope present, affixed with short lengths of tape to the blank portion at the bottom of the letter. This is the earliest of a number of letters addressed by Einstein to Cyril Clemens, the President of the Society (the letters dating from 1930 to 1943, according to the Einstein Archives Online). Cyril Clemens, who founded the Society in 1923, had made Mussolini honorary President in 1927, and awarded him the Society's first Mark Twain Gold Medal in 1930, the year of this letter. Einstein was not the only prominent figure to refuse membership because of its association with Mussolini; so did Bertrand Russell, among others. C Collection of Dr. Julius Dintenfass
EINSTEIN, ALBERT Typed letter signed as "A. Einstein" to Cyril Clemens of the Mark Twain Society, single page, printed address at head of letter Berlin Haberlandstr.[asse] 5, dated 18 March 1930. 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 21.5 cm); three lines typed with purple ribbon declining membership in the Society because Mussolini had been made honorary president. Usual folds, two short (approximately half-inch) tears in both left and right margins, the original envelope present, affixed with short lengths of tape to the blank portion at the bottom of the letter. This is the earliest of a number of letters addressed by Einstein to Cyril Clemens, the President of the Society (the letters dating from 1930 to 1943, according to the Einstein Archives Online). Cyril Clemens, who founded the Society in 1923, had made Mussolini honorary President in 1927, and awarded him the Society's first Mark Twain Gold Medal in 1930, the year of this letter. Einstein was not the only prominent figure to refuse membership because of its association with Mussolini; so did Bertrand Russell, among others. C Collection of Dr. Julius Dintenfass
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