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Holland, Newton, May 5, 1948.
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May 5, 1948
Mr. Albert Einstein, Chairman Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 118 Nassau Street, Princeton, New Jersey
Dear Mr. Einstein: -
Enclosed please find my check for $100.00 to aid in your campaign to bring before the American people the dangers involved in atomic warfare. I wish it were for a hundred times as much, for acquaintanceship of the dangers involved in atomic war will do much to make people "peace minded". Please call on me further whenever I may be of help.
I should like to express right here and now my great sense of obligation to you as an individual for helping me to find a pattern for a socially useful life. I am proud to own a copy of "Modern Philosophies" published in the early Thirties. Your statement as expressed in that symposium has provided me with a sense of direction which has been an abiding comfort to me thru the years. Not only have you made magnificent contributions to the sciences but you have introduced the writer and countless thousands of others, to an altogether workable approach to daily life. "Man is here for the benefit of other men" you wrote then. We never needed to realize it more than now. All power to you and your colleagues in this challenging task.
Yours sincerely,
Newton Holland (signature) NEWTON HOLLAND.
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