Ok, it seems it's not the original, but instead a copy Szilard kept for himself. The original is still at the museum in Hyde Park. Maybe Billionaires and Russi

Ok, it seems it's not the original, but instead a copy Szilard kept for himself. The original is still at the museum in Hyde Park. Maybe Billionaires and Russian Oligarchs don't read HN, and they will blow a few million thinking it's the original. https://archive.is/NosM5 https://archive.is/NosM5 "...Today, Einstein’s original letter to Roosevelt is held at the president’s namesake library and museum in Hyde Park, N.Y. But the physicist also wrote and signed a second, slightly shorter version that Szilard held on to for safekeeping, and this version is now up for sale..." "...Szilard kept his version of Einstein’s letter for the rest of his life; his heirs later sold it off. In 2002, publisher and collector Malcolm S. Forbes caused a stir when he auctioned off the letter for $2.1 million—a sum that reset the record at the time for anything connected to Einstein or Roosevelt and the first 20th-century historical document to top $1 million. The letter’s winning bidder was Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, whose estate is reselling the document now..."