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Pilchik, Ely E., March 14, 1947.

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  My dear Professor Einstein:  
 
  My dear Professor Einstein:  
   Humbly, I join with a grateful [illegible] in congratulating you on your sixty-eighth birthday.  Reverently, I pray to God that He may grant you many more healthful years of creative endeavor so that you who gave us the formula e = mc^2 enabling us to pierce the ultimate mystery of energy in the universe, may yet give us another formula such as man + intellect + God = universal peace.   
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   Humbly, I join with a grateful world in congratulating you on your sixty-eighth birthday.  Reverently, I pray to God that He may grant you many more healthful years of creative endeavor so that you who gave us the formula e = mc^2 enabling us to pierce the ultimate mystery of energy in the universe, may yet give us another formula such as man + intellect + God = universal peace.   
 
   I write you to enlist in that noble band of your disciples who in this early hour of the atomic age seek so earnestly to awaken mankind to its meaning.  I am not a scientist, and just as Greek and Latin were difficult for you in your early days, so mathematics and physics are difficult for me in these days.  I am a teacher from the pulpit and from the lecture platform in this rather primitive part of America.  With the heep of Smyth and the available government documents I have been trying to introduce my people - of all faiths - to the elements of the atomic age.  I want to do more?  What can I do?   
 
   I write you to enlist in that noble band of your disciples who in this early hour of the atomic age seek so earnestly to awaken mankind to its meaning.  I am not a scientist, and just as Greek and Latin were difficult for you in your early days, so mathematics and physics are difficult for me in these days.  I am a teacher from the pulpit and from the lecture platform in this rather primitive part of America.  With the heep of Smyth and the available government documents I have been trying to introduce my people - of all faiths - to the elements of the atomic age.  I want to do more?  What can I do?   
 
   I served in this war, in the Pacific, as a chaplain.  I know what war means - I have seen its face and its back.  I think I can grasp what a atomic war would mean.  I want to prevent it.   
 
   I served in this war, in the Pacific, as a chaplain.  I know what war means - I have seen its face and its back.  I think I can grasp what a atomic war would mean.  I want to prevent it.   
 
   As you and your colleagues searched for the
 
   As you and your colleagues searched for the

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                                                       MAR 24   RECD

Temple Israel 1602 So. Rockford Avenue Tulsa 5, Oklahoma

Mar. 14, 1947

My dear Professor Einstein: 
  Humbly, I join with a grateful world in congratulating you on your sixty-eighth birthday.  Reverently, I pray to God that He may grant you many more healthful years of creative endeavor so that you who gave us the formula e = mc^2 enabling us to pierce the ultimate mystery of energy in the universe, may yet give us another formula such as man + intellect + God = universal peace.  
  I write you to enlist in that noble band of your disciples who in this early hour of the atomic age seek so earnestly to awaken mankind to its meaning.  I am not a scientist, and just as Greek and Latin were difficult for you in your early days, so mathematics and physics are difficult for me in these days.  I am a teacher from the pulpit and from the lecture platform in this rather primitive part of America.  With the heep of Smyth and the available government documents I have been trying to introduce my people - of all faiths - to the elements of the atomic age.  I want to do more?  What can I do?  
  I served in this war, in the Pacific, as a chaplain.  I know what war means - I have seen its face and its back.  I think I can grasp what a atomic war would mean.  I want to prevent it.  
  As you and your colleagues searched for the