May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(SCIENTISTS.) EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Typed Letter Signed, "A. Einstein," to President of the Mark Twain Society Cyril Clemens, declining his invitation to attend a meeting. 1/2 page, 4to, personal embossed stationery; double-sided cello tape at lower edge recto, faint toning at edges, horizontal folds. Princeton, 16 July 1947
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"Thank you very much for your invitation to address your meeting in November. Unfortunately, poor health does not permit me anymore to accept to accept [sic] such invitations."
Cyril C. Clemens (1902-1999) founded the International Mark Twain Society in 1923; he was also Twain's third cousin twice removed.