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Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed, Sending Thanks for a Donation to the Institute for Advanced Study: "We expect to use the money for a distinguished visiting lecturer"

Oppenheimer sends thanks for a donation to the Institute for Advanced Study: "We expect to use the money for a distinguished visiting lecturer"

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Oppenheimer sends thanks for a donation to the Institute for Advanced Study: "We expect to use the money for a distinguished visiting lecturer"

TLS, one page, 5.5 x 6.5, Institute for Advanced Study letterhead, January 30, 1964. Letter to Brunson S. McCutchen of Princeton, New Jersey, in part: "As you know, I was away when your good letter of December 20th, and the check for $1,000, came. I am sorry to be so late in thanking you. I do thank you most heartily, on behalf of the Trustees of the Institute, to whom I reported your gift at their meeting of January 22nd, and on my own behalf. We expect to use the money for a distinguished visiting lecturer." In very fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.

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