Part 1 - The Institute Libraries - Institute for Advanced Study

mar, of the joirit cnmittee of trrrstees snd faculty vhich administered
the Institute, to wrlcmri? a ~ d i-nfcm the F~unders on the nature af
the C.I.T. and its a&--5nfstration the previacs winter (see Flexner
to Yillj kzr., 1/27/31).
Only in t h ~ postm~uslj writtell Iatrodcction did Allan llevins eorrec
t t3e record: "k y persistent, tact5ill pcrsuasior. he enlisted
"Jr. AlSert Einstein" in the faculty.
18. Flzxner t3 2. WeyI, 2/15/32. Flexner to R. Courant, 2/13/33.
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IS. Flex~er to Birkhff, 2/29/32. L e m offered: salary, $20,000.
Soint ccr-tribut icrs to T. 1,X.A. tp the Instit4~te and the professor,
of 10% t3.e 'cer- fits to apply to a pension of $5,000 on retirment
st age 65, wbich night be deferred 3y EgrEement. His wife to re-
ceive a pcnsien of $5,000 shocfd her hzsband pre-decease her. In
vicv of the liberal tern, no other services far Zinsncial profit
were to be undertsken by the professor.
2C. airkhoff to Flemer, 3/23/32. Sirkhoff first accepted on 3/7/32,
then retracted it t~ allow tine for President Lowel1 to tzLk f-lrthex
with him. On 3/20/32 he gain accepted, but: was appareetly dis-
suaded from leaving by a trustee of krvaxd.
22. Aydelotte to FLexr.er, 3/1/33. Flexner to Aydelotte, 3/3333. Ayde-
fotte papers.
22. Xinutes, meeting, Me~hers cf the Corporztion, 4/11/32, p. 3.
23, A, M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Ccr;.,irtg of the Sew kal, Roughton Mifflin
Cmpany, Eoston, 1958, p, 256.
25. Veblen to Flemer, 4/24/32.
26. Philip Frank, Einstein Yis Life and Tires, Alfred A. Knopf, 1967,
pp. 178, 256.
28. Flexrer to Einsteia, 5/6/32; 6/10/32; 6/14/32. Einstein to Fltxner,
E/8/32; 6/10/32, The tens were: Salary, $10,000; if the German
govement taxcd this i ncm, the Institcte would pay the Arr~rican
incmc tax. Einstein would Fe eligible .for retirerent at age 65,
5ut it might be deferred by agxeemnt. Pension.$7,500, and far his
wife should Einstein predecease her, a pensioa of $5,000. The