Letter
notes: label: Description
content: Marie Mattingly Meloney, an American journalist, interviewed Marie Curie at the Radium Institute in Paris in 1920, and learned that the price of radium had increased to such a degree that Curie could no longer afford the material needed for her research. Returning home, Meloney launched a campaign to have the women of America raise the $100,000 needed to purchase a gram of radium for Curie’s use at the Radium Institute. The campaign was successful, and in 1921 Curie and her two daughters came to the United States. On May 20, on a visit to the White House, President Harding gave Curie a certificate representing the donation from the Marie Curie Radium Fund Committee. That evening, Charles Doolittle Walcott, the paleontologist then serving Secretary of the Smithsonian, hosted a reception at the U.S. National Museum. This May 22 note from Curie to Dr. and Mrs. Walcott reads “Please accept my thanks for the beautiful flowers and my deep gratitude for your service to my work.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319529.02
label: catalog number
content: 319529.02
label: accession number
content: 239016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: letter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 13 cm x 1 cm; 6 5/16 in x 5 1/8 in x 13/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 10.4775 cm x 13.97 cm