TINBERGEN JAN: (1903-1994) Dutch Economist, winner of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sci...

TINBERGEN JAN: (1903-1994) Dutch Economist, winner of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sci...
TINBERGEN JAN: (1903-1994) Dutch Economist, winner of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1969. A.L.S., Jan Tinbergen, one page, 4to, The Hague, 11th January 1927, to Sam[uel Goudsmit], in Dutch. Tinbergen announces 'It has pleased me greatly to receive your invitation, because I know for you and your bride - I must say now - it means a great fortune' and continues to write 'I clearly have two kinds of friends. The one kind is very sympathetic on first sight, the other kind becomes a ''friend'' more gradually. You belong to the second kind. I thought of you as little harmonising with me (definition of friendship [?]), and that has changed increasingly. I noticed that many things that kept you busy also interested me, especially the smaller thoughts, our last meeting confirmed what I intuitively felt increasingly; a big sense of sympathy exists between us in our feelings. I hope the honesty with which I am telling you this will prove that I mean it. And I foresee you will find your happiness in life in the things we consider the best, in the ''noble'' things, in all the immensely beautiful aspects within people and on the outside. That you will only think about people, as people. And you will not look at the appearances'. Two file holes to the left edge and a small, neat tear to the right edge of the central fold, only very slightly affecting a few words of text, and a small, light circular stain just affecting a few letters of the signature, otherwise about VG Samuel Goudsmit (1902-1978) Dutch-American Physicist, scientific head of Operation Alsos, part of the Manhattan Project, during World War II.