Letter from Cyril Stanley Smith to Kertesz, April 6 1976

Dated April 12th, 1976, a typed 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. On page three, he concludes his letter by calling Rukeyser "a very fine poet." And he adds that "her work needs to be supplemented by more critical biographies of Harriot and of Gibbs, with emphasis placed upon their work as scientists and on the demonstrable influence of their ideas. It's absurd that Gibbs, certainly one of the greatest and most influential Americans who has ever lived, is still almost unknown to the general public."