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4 glossy black and white 8 x 10-in. portrait photographs of Albert Einstein, copyright notice stamped on verso, each numbered by hand verso in pencil ("No:4," No:8," No:24," No:25"). With original mailing envelope from Karsh, postmarked 21 August 1959, including the typed note: "Photographs for Record Purposes Only." Provenance: Dr. Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971), anatomist and embryologist known for co-discovering Vitamin E (original mailing envelope); acquired from Jeremy Norman. 

Einstein sat for Karsh at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, where Karsh found him "a simple, kindly, almost childlike man, too great for any of the postures of eminence. One did not have to understand his science to feel the power of his mind or the force of his personality. He spoke sadly, yet serenely, as one who had looked into the universe, far past mankind’s small affairs. When I asked him what the world would be like were another atomic bomb to be dropped, he replied wearily, ‘Alas, we will no longer be able to hear the music of Mozart’.”