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                                                         MAY 7   RECD

Michael H. Murray 12 Coolidge Hill Rd. Cambridge, Mass.

May 3, I947

Doctor Einstein,

  Your appeal for aid in the work of the Emergency Committee was passed along to me by a friend.   I was an aviator on a battleship at Okinawa, where many of our men were lost.  On the day the first Atomic bomb was dropped, I was planning our scheduled operations in support of our invasion of Japan.   When the news of the bomb came I felt that we had been saved by it and by the men who had made it possible.  It is not unlikely that I owe my life just as so many owe their destruction to it.. I had already decided to spend my life helping to solve the problems which its use cannot solve, but that day made my decision irrevokable. 
  You were one who made the bomb possible,  and now you are giving leadership to those who feel with you that the solution lies through personal effort, faith and universal education, and not in armaments and national aspirations.  Before the war I had studied nothing but science, so I have returned to Harvard to equip myself better for this work, by studying history, international law and government. In a year I shall have finished my course here.   At that time I hope, if I may, to devote myself wholly to the work in which you lead. At present I can only send a small contribution.    
  It would make me very happy, if sometime before I finish my course here, I could see you, to learn in which ways I could do the most to help. 

      Very Sincerely Yours. 
          Michael H. Murray