Typed Letter Signed (“M. Born”), 1 p, 4to, Bad Pyrmont, West Germany, April 10, 1964, to Professor R.S. Shankland of the Case Institute of Technology, on blue “air mail” stationery with address on verso, crease to upper quadrant, lower right corner bumped, right center margin rough as usual.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Born writes a letter to an American professor thanking the latter for having sent a copy of his article, most likely a history of the Michelson-Morley Experiment, thought to be one of the ground-breaking moments of the “Second Scientific Revolution.” Born begins by reminiscing about his old boss Albert Michelson, and then goes on to suggest other subjects for Shankland to interview: “I worked in Michelson’s laboratory in Chicago in 1913, where I gave lectures on relativity and I learned how to use a grating spectroscope. Not long ago I had a letter from Michelson’s youngest daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Michelson Stevens … whom I knew as a little girl. She is writing a biography of her father….”