Letter from Cyril Stanley Smith to Kertesz, April 6 1976 · EMU Archives

Title: eng Letter from Cyril Stanley Smith to Kertesz, April 6 1976
Description: eng Dated April 6th, 1976, a typed three-page letter from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor Cyril Stanley Smith to Louise Kertesz, in response to her inquiries about Muriel Rukeyser’s Willard Gibbs and The Traces of Thomas Hariot: “You ask about scientists' views on W.G. Frankly, I have never met one who liked it. Most of them think that it is not the biography of a scientist. For all of its studies of incoming and outreaching influences, it fails to catch the intellectual experience of the scientist in finding and clarifying his problem and doesn't distinguish between the moments of insight and the hard work of verification and transmission." Stanley himself, though he often argued in favor of the book, thinks these criticisms are justified. Nevertheless, he "was both moved and puzzled by it" when it first came out. He points out that in both books is a "strong admixture of imagination; starting off from a factual script of information and extending it imaginatively." Page 1 of 3.
Identifier: eng 018_LK_01_19_002.jpg
Creator: eng Cyril Stanley Smith
Date Created: eng April 12th, 1976
Medium: eng Paper
Subject: eng Louise Kertesz, Muriel Rukeyser, Dirk Jan Struik, Female Poets, Correspondence, Photography
Is Part Of: eng 018.LK, Louise Kertesz papers
Contributor: eng Andrew Schick