Item 4 - Letter from Lord Haldane to Lucy Clifford

1 single sheet, 1 envelope

Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire.—Is reluctant to send the enclosed (E1/1-2) to Einstein, as he cannot read English and has no historical interest in his subject.

(With envelope.)

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Transcript

Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire
10 Aug 23

Dear Mrs Clifford,

The enclosed are very precious. That is why I hesitate about sending them to Einstein. He cannot read English & he is devoid of historical interest in his subject. His genius is concentrated on the problems of the present which engross him.

I therefore think that you should keep the letter & note until someone is heard of—there is probably someone at Cambridge—who is working out the genesis of the present, historically.

I have been here for a week—reading & walking—a complete change of occupation. I hope that you will have a good holiday.

Yours sincerely {1}
Haldane

[Direction on envelope:] Mrs Clifford | 7 Chilworth Street | London W. [Redirected to Mrs Clifford] at/ Brownwich | Titchfield | Hants.

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The envelope was postmarked at Auchterarder, Perthshire, on 10 August 1923, and at Paddington on 11 August 1923, and is marked in ink ‘W.K.C | Sylvester | Haldane’ and in pencil ‘Sent to Lord Haldane suggesting he wd like the bit of W.K.C.’

{1} These two words are indistinct.