. Einstein, “The Negro Question,”
, Jan. 1946. In this essay, he was juxtaposing the generally democratic social tendency of Americans to the way they treated blacks. That became more of an issue for him than it was back in 1934, as will be noted later in this book.
25
. Bucky, 45; “Einstein Farewell,”
, Mar. 14, 1932.
26
. Vallentin, 235. See also Elsa Einstein to Hertha Einstein (wife of music historian Alfred Einstein, a distant cousin), Feb. 24, 1934, AEA 37-693: “The place is charming, altogether different from the rest of America . . . Here everything is tinged with Englishness—downright Oxford style.”
27
. “Einstein Cancels Trip Abroad,”
, Apr. 2, 1934.
28
. Marianoff, 178. Other sources report that Ilse’s ashes, or at least some of them, were brought to a cemetery in Holland, to a place chosen by the widower Rudi Kayser.
29
. This entire story is from an interview given by the Blackwoods’ son James to Denis Brian on Sept. 7, 1994, and is detailed in Brian 1996, 259–263.
30
. Ibid. See also James Blackwood, “Einstein in the Rear-View Mirror,”
, Nov. 1997.
31
. “Einstein Inventor of Camera Device,”
, Nov. 27, 1936.
32
. Bucky, 5. Bucky’s book is written, in part, as a running conversation, though there are sections that actually draw from other Einstein interviews and writings.
33
. Bucky, 16–21.
34
.
, Aug. 4, 1935; Brian 1996, 265, 280.
35
. Vallentin, 237.
36
. Brian 1996, 268.
37
. Folsing, 687; Brian 1996, 279.
38
. Calaprice, 251.
39
. Bucky, 25.
40
. Clark, 622.
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