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Serbian American physicist and physical chemist (1858–1935) who is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication known as the 'Pupin coil'; he was also a founding member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later became NASA. TLS signed “M. I. Pupin,” two pages, 8 x 10.5, Columbia University (Department of Physics Research Laboratory) letterhead, June 16, 1924. Letter to Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck, in part: “In sack cloth and ashes I approach you now to beg for forgiveness. I owe you so much for your hospitality and for your deep interest in my visit to Boston on April 11th, that I ought to have written you immediately upon my return to New York and thanked you for it all. But instead of doing promptly what etiquette and good sense demanded of me I delayed from day to day…The secret of it is that I foolishly bit off more engagements than I could chew during the last period of my academic year, with the result that I was in a chaos most of the time trying to live up to my promises. When a man is in that chaotic state time passes rapidly and brief delays, as planned at first, become long delays. Kindness is the keynote of your spiritual makeup and I trust that you will exercise it again on my behalf and forgive me. To forgive and to forget is the highest virtue of man and I am sure that there is a big lot of that commodity stored in your big heart.
What you say about a laboratory for the study of tropical diseases interests me very much. If I can help you in a move of that kind I shall be glad to do so. But to write an article about it for the Atlantic Monthly, would be a big undertaking for me, since my knowledge of the subject is во extremely limited. If this summer should take me to Bar Harbor I shall certainly look you up. I would like very much to meet Mrs. Shattuck again who made a deep impression upon me. I thought that in her personality I could read the history of wonderful New England.” The two pages are affixed along the top edge. In fine condition, with some light creasing and faint toning.
Dr. Frederick Cheever Shattuck (1847-1929) was a longtime member of the Harvard Medical School faculty, later professor emeritus, and a Harvard Overseer from 1913 to 1919. A Harvard graduate (B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872, M.D. 1873), he also received honorary degrees from the University of Cincinnati (LL.D., 1908) and Harvard (Sc.D., 1912). He served on the medical faculty for thirty-three years, led the Medical School Alumni Association, and was a consulting physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also held the rank of First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps. Dr. Shattuck was the father of Boston State Representative Henry L. Shattuck.
From the personal collection of a lifelong collector, teacher, and traveler with a passion for world history. His collecting years ranged from the 1970s to the present day, meaning that several of the premier pieces have not been on the market in decades.
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