TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Hoover Institution letterhead, November 19, 1986. Letter to Gerard L. Granat, president of the Philmore Manufacturing Company, in part: "Thank you for your inquiry about the Einstein letter. I am enclosing a copy of an article published in Los Alamos Science magazine that correctly reports my role—I was a chauffeur for Leo Szilard. (Richard Rhodes in his new book, Ultimate Powers, reports that I took the letter down in longhand, but this is not correct. The letter was already typed, Einstein read, signed, and returned it to Szilard. I was not shown the contents of the letter at any time.) It did not seem to me that Einstein was in any way unhappy with the letter. As I report in the article, his only comment was to muse: 'this will be the first time.' We were served tea and cookies, and there was no sense of unhappiness connected with the occasion, only a sense of concern that the Nazis might be the sole possessors of an atomic bomb." The lower portion is also signed in green felt tip by Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier aboard the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb, 'Little Boy,' on Hiroshima in 1945. In fine condition. Accompanied by the referenced article, entitled 'Seven Hours of Reminiscences.'
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