Princeton, 11 June 1953
[should be VII]
Dear Nathan,
The milestone birthdays in our life lead us to recall our common experiences. Viewed objectively, it was mostly not pretty, and the experiences with the goyim and Jews, with the left and the right, were rarely pleasant. But the bonds between us became all the more firm. It was like a miracle that we always immediately understood each other without many words and agreed on the position to take. If one doesn’t follow the herd and just consults one’s conscience, one knows what must be done, whatever the reverberation may be. This is still the best way, however skeptically one may think about the small way in which one can be useful. 
Brandeis—Hutten St. corp.—Breslau congress—Rosenberg—our dear black brothers in Washington—isn’t it a colorful whirl in retrospect? On the occasion of your birthday, let us remember all these things and many others in a happy mood, in undiminished hope of a fruitful continuation in the same style.
With all my cordial good wishes, 
Yours,
	A. Einstein.
[ALS]