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June 19, 1947 Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 90 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey

Gentlemen: Your effort to raise $1 million for a program of nation-wide education on atomic energy has my heartfelt support. I am enclosing my personal check for $10, which, I am guiltily aware, is all too little, but at the same time all that I as an individual can afford. I wish there were more I could do to help you, in a tangible, human way. I do not believe in the resort-to-checkbook as a palliative for troubled consciences, and feel somehow that I ought to be a participant in your work, offering such help as I could: to write pamphlets, to conduct seminars, to support and sustain your commendable attempts to enlighten that portion of Congress which is so often mulish and perverse in reaction to the new social and political realities which flow from the release of atomic energy. Having read Alfred Einstein's statement issued in conjunction with your appeal for funds, I find myself believing that all men of spirit and good will must be profoundly in accord with your objectives; they have a universality and a greatness about them, and they bespeak the urgent wish of humanity for progress and survival. Here's to you. Henry Kessler 1808 E. Spruce Seattle 22, Washington