Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to "Alicia," [1966 May 14].

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Autograph letter signed : [Sag Harbor, New York], to "Alicia," [1966 May 14].

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Discussing how quickly the world is moving; saying he wishes that "it would sit still and pant for a while before it climbs on toward the Everest of perfection;" discussing a recent patent for "medical electronics" that would allow a doctor to feed in symptoms and retrieve a diagnosis which would allow "the doctor to be an illiterate howler monkey or a fiddler crab;" he muses about the application of this device to psychoanalysis and adds that "we can only hope that the machines do not develop within themselves a diabolic trait foreign to both doctor and patients--a sense of humor."

1 item (5 p.) ; 31.6 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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