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Title
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Letter to A. Smithies
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Date
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1953
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Date in document
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yes
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Formulas or calculations
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no
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Inventory number
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NL-RtEUR_TBCOR01_018S034
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4797
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Storage location
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Specifiek Magazijn
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Filename
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CDM4797_NL-RtEUR_TBCOR01_018S034.pdf
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Provenance
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Jan Tinbergen
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Accrual Method
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donation
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Rights
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Revised transcript
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en
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Prof. Dr. J. TINBERGEN The Hague, 2 January 1953 Sijzenlaan 41
Prof. Dr Arthur SMITHIES, Department of Economics, Harvard University, M-8 Littauer Center, Cambridge 38.(Mass)
Dear Smithies,
Thank you very much for your letter of December 17. It was indeed a great pleasure to receive it and I feel honored by the idea to be a possible candidate. I don't think, however, that I can accept to be available. A Professor of Statistics at Harvard should, I think, be well acquainted with modern development in mathematical statistics and should himself have contributed to that field. Actually I am only a consumer of some of these methods, and my own work developed more and more into the direction of mathematical economics and economic policy than of mathematical statistics. I hope you understand my point of view.
May I take this opportunity, however, to bring another question before you ? I have been invited to spend about 3 months (from October 1 till Xmas 1953) in the USA as an exchange professor at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. I accepted and it was understood that I would be free to accept possible offers to give some separate lectures at universities in the neighbourhood. If there would be a chance in the frame of existing regulations to pay a visit also to Harvard, you can imagine that I would be delighted. I hope our personal relations excuse me in putting this question rather bluntly and I hope too that you will be kind enough to say frankly what you think of it.
With best personal wishes,
I am,
yours very sincerely,
