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RSS FeedsAlbert Einstein`s God Letter highlights Treasures from the Eric C. Caren Collection at Bonhams
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21 february 2019 05:03:37

 
Albert Einstein`s God Letter highlights Treasures from the Eric C. Caren Collection at Bonhams
(Artdaily.org)
 


Bonhams announces the seventh installment collector Eric C. Caren`s voluminous collection of How History Unfolds on Paper, an online-only sale from March 6-14, with an exhibition in the New York galleries March 7-11. The collection begins in the 17th century and covers 4 decades of American and world history, focusing primarily on letters, documents, and printed media. Highlighting the sale is an Albert Einstein letter written to a young U.S. Naval Officer near the end of World War II (estimate: $100,000-200,000). The young man had written to Einstein relaying a conversation he`d had with a Jesuit priest who claimed he had convinced the scientist to believe in a `supreme intellect which governs the universe.` Rather than his usual cagey response, Einstein admits that he has always been an atheist, but that the world is indeed wondrous: `We have to admire


 
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