Albert Einstein Collection: Finding Aid mssEinstein
Gayle M. Richardson
The Huntington Library
October 2023
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Albert Einstein collection
Creator:
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Identifier/Call Number: mssEinstein
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1902-1989
Date (bulk): 1922-1956
Abstract: A collection of material related to the
physicist Albert Einstein.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Albert Einstein collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Burndy Library Collection, Dibner Family, November 2006.
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science.
This small collection of material contains five letters by Albert Einstein (including a
copy of a telegram about the "world crisis" related to the "power of the atom"). These
letters are written to Bern Dibner and Volta Torrey, Editor, Popular Science Monthly. In the
letter to Torrey, Einstein talks about Newton's theory of planetary motion and gravity.
There are also several letters between Dibner, Torrey, and E. Weil concerning Einstein
acquisitions. Also included are two pieces of math equations (on the verso of one of them is
a short note, in German, about Korea and scientific pursuits - with a transcription and
English translation of the note). The collection also includes five photographs of Einstein,
one engraving, and a photograph album that contains photographs as well as clippings. There
is also one folder that includes 31 copies of letters of Einstein that Bern Dibner
collected, including two copies of his letter to President Roosevelt regarding the atomic
bomb (August 2, 1939). There's also a copy of Einstein's will (March 18, 1950). Also
included are copies of 10 articles by and about Einstein and clippings from dealer
catalogs.
Processed by Brooke M. Black in 2015; in 2023, Gayle M. Richardson created the finding
aid.
Arranged by subject and format.
Former call number: mssEinsteincollection.
Burndy Library Collection at the Huntington Library; was MS Collection 44.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Physicists -- Correspondence
Planetary theory
Articles
Letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts
Photographs
Dibner, Bern
Torrey, Volta, 1905-
Burndy Library, former owner
Box 1, Folder 1-9
Albert Einstein collection 1902-1989