Letters to Cornelius Lanczos, reproduced in a catalog from Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co, 1980.

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Letters to Cornelius Lanczos, reproduced in a catalog from Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co, 1980.

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Pages of a catalog describing 16 letters sold at auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 26, 27 November 1980. The letters span the period 1935-1955, and deal primarily with Einstein's search for a unified field theory.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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