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RBF Draft Letter To:
"A year ago I was asked to speak on the subject before the U.S. Air Corps Institute of Technology at Wright Field and no challenges of fallacy were vouchsafed. I have spoken recently before science department heads of several large colleges, such as Dartmouth, who asserted keen interest and credit in the discoveries. At one time I was technical consultant on the staff of Fortune Magazine, at another assistant and director of research at Phelps Dodge Corporation; at another head mechanical engineer of the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare. In these undertakings I was under obligation to maintain wide coverage of scientific literature, and I am reasonably satisfied that there is no publication of parallel data. A year ago I was asked by the President of Sperry Co. to recount the subject to an officer of the mathematical society, and he confirmed my conjecture that I was not duplicating another’s work. As you know, few academic scientists will make hasty affirmation of exploratory finding. The disclosure must detect tentative assent by lack of negatives coincident with manifest interest.
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- RBF holograph draft Ltr. to Dr. Einstein, 17 Jan’48
