Typed Letter, with Secretarial Signature ("A. Einstein"), to Sol Lesser.
Princeton, New Jersey: October 19, 1946.
Price: $1,750.00
About the item
1 1/2 pages, on recto and verso of quarto sheet of letterhead for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. Folded for mailing, else Fine. Folding green cloth slipcase.
Item #376560
An invitation, written in Einstein's capacity as Chairman of the Trustees of the Committee, to Lesser to attend a three day conference in Princeton the following month, and asking him to be his special guest at a luncheon on the 17th of November. Einstein writes Lesser "as one who shares with American scientists a sense of the responsibility and urgency with which this great new force has impressed upon our lives ..." and notes that one of the chief aims of the conference will be for "the scientists to reach final agreement on our program of education for survival ...." Perhaps it was in his capacity as film producer that Lesser was considered a potential contributor beyond simple monetary help. The letter is addressed to Lesser at the Paramount Building (1501 Broadway, NYC). Lesser (1890-1980) was a successful film producer (a career that spanned the silent era, up through such productions as THUNDER OVER MEXICO (1939) and OUR TOWN (1940), to the long string of post 1943 Tarzan films, when he once again reacquired the rights after having produced the Buster Crabbe serial of 1933. He received the 1960 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
