FEYNMAN, RICHARD P.Autograph letter signed ("R.P.F."), to Lucille Feynman ("Mom"), on personal stationery ("Dr. Richard P. Feynman/P. O. B. 1663/Santa Fe, New Mexico"), July 4.
2 pages in ink on single sheet (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.). Creases where previously folded. Minor staining to right side of recto.Condition reportTo request a condition report for this lot, please email science@sothebys.com.Catalogue noteThis letter captures a seemingly homesick Richard Feynman writing to his mother from Los Alamos, telling her that he wishes he could have been home for his sister Joan's ("Moose's") high school graduation. He also implores his mother — in his characteristically humorous and self-deprecating style — to tell Joan not to marry a physicist because, "judging only from himself — they are unappreciative, absent minded, out-of-this-world-except-when-it-comes-to-cracking-a-joke-or-sleeping, and generally forgetful no good bums."
With considerably more poignancy, and with reference to his wife Arline ("Putzie"), Feynman ends the letter by saying of physicists that, "As lovers, they notice how your blood circulates but not how your heart beats. Ask Putzie, she'll disagree, but she's still hoping I'm not really as I am."
Richard Feynman's autograph letter, dated "July 4," reads, in part:
"Dear Mom,
[...]
I wish I could be home for a while — but one of the conditions for employment is that you can't visit your folks or vice versa except for some dire emergency — damn it. But have patience — comes the end of the war + we'll all be together again.
[...]
I would have had a swell time watching Moose's graduation. That is one thing I really miss being 2000 miles away from. Putzie pointed out to me — on reading a letter from you to me that I showed her — that you were specially pointing out the date of her graduation, June 27 — so I felt bad, kinda, because I wanted to be there, and couldn't, and it was all over already too (it was June 30). What was it like? Any excitement? Did she get any special somethings?
Tell her not to marry a physicist for, judging only from myself — they are unappreciative, absent-minded, out-of-this-world-except-when-it-comes-to-cracking-a-joke-or-sleeping, and generally forgetful no good bums. As lovers, they notice how your blood circulates but not how your heart beats. Ask Putzie, she'll disagree, but she's still hoping I'm not really as I seem.
So long, R.P.F."
FEYNMAN, RICHARD P.Autograph letter signed ("R.P.F."), to Lucille Feynman ("Mom"), on personal stationery ("Dr. Richard P. Feynman/P. O. B. 1663/Santa Fe, New Mexico"), July 4.
2 pages in ink on single sheet (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.). Creases where previously folded. Minor staining to right side of recto.Condition reportTo request a condition report for this lot, please email science@sothebys.com.Catalogue noteThis letter captures a seemingly homesick Richard Feynman writing to his mother from Los Alamos, telling her that he wishes he could have been home for his sister Joan's ("Moose's") high school graduation. He also implores his mother — in his characteristically humorous and self-deprecating style — to tell Joan not to marry a physicist because, "judging only from himself — they are unappreciative, absent minded, out-of-this-world-except-when-it-comes-to-cracking-a-joke-or-sleeping, and generally forgetful no good bums."
With considerably more poignancy, and with reference to his wife Arline ("Putzie"), Feynman ends the letter by saying of physicists that, "As lovers, they notice how your blood circulates but not how your heart beats. Ask Putzie, she'll disagree, but she's still hoping I'm not really as I am."
Richard Feynman's autograph letter, dated "July 4," reads, in part:
"Dear Mom,
[...]
I wish I could be home for a while — but one of the conditions for employment is that you can't visit your folks or vice versa except for some dire emergency — damn it. But have patience — comes the end of the war + we'll all be together again.
[...]
I would have had a swell time watching Moose's graduation. That is one thing I really miss being 2000 miles away from. Putzie pointed out to me — on reading a letter from you to me that I showed her — that you were specially pointing out the date of her graduation, June 27 — so I felt bad, kinda, because I wanted to be there, and couldn't, and it was all over already too (it was June 30). What was it like? Any excitement? Did she get any special somethings?
Tell her not to marry a physicist for, judging only from myself — they are unappreciative, absent-minded, out-of-this-world-except-when-it-comes-to-cracking-a-joke-or-sleeping, and generally forgetful no good bums. As lovers, they notice how your blood circulates but not how your heart beats. Ask Putzie, she'll disagree, but she's still hoping I'm not really as I seem.
So long, R.P.F."
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