Mehra, Jagdish

In 1952, a 15-year-old boy received a letter from Albert Einstein. That letter formed the first item in what would become a major personal library. Today, The Jagdish Mehra Collection is a premier research center within the University of Houston Libraries. It is rich in primary archival and secondary research materials. In 1990, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization appraised the collection at considerably more than $10 million and termed it "absolutely unique as a scientific and cultural resource."

This compilation does not concentrate solely on science. Dr. Mehra's intellectual interests in literature, philosophy, and history are reflected in the collection. The collection includes recorded conversations with famous literary and philosophic figures such as T.S. Eliot, Louis Aragon, Simone de Beauvoir, Carl Gustav Jung, Jean Paul Sartre, Aldous Huxley and many more.

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