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“RECEIVED HERE AS IF I HAD DUG UP
THE GREAT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA”
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SCHLIEMANN, HEINRICH. Autograph Letter Signed, “HSchliemann,” to an
unnamed recipient (“Dear Professor”), in German, requesting that he send copies of his
work on Troy.
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page, 8vo, with integral blank, pale blue paper; folds.
London, 1 July 1875
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“
You probably received the copy of my work
Troy and Its Remains
, which I asked Mr. John
Murray to send you.
“
In return, please send . . . copies of your
Discovery of Troy in Hisarlik
. . . .
“
I was received here as if I had dug up the great library of Alexandria intact.You will find a
little vignette about that in the June 26 issue of the
Times.
”
PROGENITORS OF MANHATTAN PROJECT
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(SCIENTISTS.) Group Photograph Signed, by 8 members of the executive com-
mittee of the National Defense Research Committee, showing each signer seated or
standing at a table. Signed in the blank lower margin, below the relevant portrait. 6
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x9
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inches (image), 8x10 inches overall.
Np, circa 1940
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Left to right: Frank B. Jewett, Karl T. Compton, Julius A. Furer (“JA Furer / Rear Admiral,
U.S.N.”), Roger Adams, James B. Conant, Conway P. Coe, Irvin Stewart, Richard C.Tolman.
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SPEER, ALBERT. Typed Letter Signed, in German, to former Berlin physician
Peter A. Bucky (“Dear Mr. Bucky”), in German and English, thanking him for compli-
ments on his book,
Recollections
, inviting him to Heidelberg on his next visit to Germany
to reminisce over a cup of tea, and declining Bucky’s offer to send audio tapes of Speer’s
speeches because the texts are accessible at the Federal Archives.
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page, 4to, personal
stationery; remnants of prior mounting at all edges recto, faint marginal discoloration from
prior matting, folds.
Heidelberg, 11 November 1972
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