Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 38

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INCLUDES LETTER SIGNED BY EDWARD TELLER MENTIONING OPPENHEIMER & MCCARTHYISM (NUCLEAR WEAPONS.) Archive of over 30 letters Signed, by U.S. Senators, Representatives, and others, to chemist Charles D. Coryell, most thanking for his expression of opposition to President Eisenhower's proposed agreements controlling the transfer of nuclear weapons to NATO countries around the world [relating to amendments to the Atomic Energy Act in August, 1954 and 1958], many suggesting that the agreements would not increase risk to global security, comparatively few expressing some sympathy in exercising caution. Some letters bear secretarial signature, including a letter and memorandum from John F. Kennedy. Together 43 pages, 4to or 8vo, most on Congressional stationery; Teller letter worn with moderate scattered staining, folds. Vp, 1954-59
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Edward Teller. TLS, "Edward": ". . . I firmly believe that McCarthy is gone. I think that he has done us a great service by first establishing McCarthyism and then getting himself discredited. . . .
"About the Oppenheimer case I am terribly disturbed and I continue to be disturbed. I hope that somehow in the course of time we shall get to the point where we can forget about it. Reopening the case may bring out even more unpleasant facts and may stir up even more unhappiness. In any case, I am extremely glad that Oppenheimer was retained as Director of the Institute.
"One positive thing that may come from all of this may be a more reasonable and liberal approach toward security problems. . . ." 1 page, 4to, "University of California" stationery. Livermore, 12 November 1954.
Letters dated July-August 1959: Joseph W. Barr • Overton Brooks • Steven V. Carter • J. Edgar Chenoweth • Marguerite Stitt Church • Frank M. Coffin • Laurence Curtis • Everett McKinley Dirksen • Thomas J. Dodd • Albert Gore • Randall S. Harmon • A. Sydney Herlong, Jr. • Hubert H. Humphrey (2) • John F. Kennedy • Hastings Keith • R.E. Lapp • Roland V. Libonati • Warren G. Magnuson • Eugene J. McCarthy • Erwin Mitchell • Wayne Morse • Edmund S. Muskie (2) • Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. • Philip J. Philbin • William Proxmire • Henry S. Reuss • Maurice S. Rice • L. Mendel Rivers • James Roosevelt • Leverett Saltonstall • Samuel S. Stratton • Herman E. Talmadge • Leonard G. Wolf • Ralph Yarborough • Clement J. Zablocki.
With--Three items: (Richard M. Nixon.) Typed letter from Vice President Nixon's Executive Assistant, Colgate S. Prentice, to Coryell, remarking that Nixon is in Moscow and cannot respond to his letter. 1 page, 8vo, "Office of the Vice President." Washington, 29 July 1959 • (Strom Thurmond.) Postcard from him to Coryell, acknowledging receipt, bearing printed signature. 1 page, 12mo. [Washington, 21 July 1959] • (Charles D. Coryell.) Retained copy of his typed letter to Representative J. Edgar Chenoweth concerning his work for the Committee on Science and Astronautics, and requesting revisions to the President's agreements on nuclear arms. 2 pages, 4to. Np, 30 July 1959.