Category: Letters

Refined by: (Author) Josh Levy

Love and Intrigue at Princeton: Newly Opened Letters from Einstein’s Love Affair with Margarita Konenkova

November 30, 2023

Letters by Albert Einstein in the Sigmund Freud Papers at the Library of Congress reveal his clandestine love affair with Margarita Konenkova.

Posted in: Letters, Science and Technology

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

What Lieutenant Ijams Saw During Operation Crossroads, and What He Didn’t

August 4, 2022

Posted by: Josh Levy

A new collection in the Manuscript Division contains the vivid testimony of a witness to the 1946 atomic tests at Bikini Atoll. But it also raises questions about what those who viewed the tests were unable to see, and how researchers might try to fill the gaps.

Posted in: Letters, Science and Technology, War and Society

Refined by: (Author) Josh Levy