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Research for this paper was supported by The National Science Foundation, and the paper was written during the tenure of a Guggenheim Fellowship. I want to thank both Foundations for their support. I am also grateful to Hebrew University of Jerusalem for their kind permission to use material from the Einstein Archives. Those Archives are housed in the Seeley G. Mudd manuscript library at Princeton University, and my references below to unpublished material can be found there, either alphabetically or by using the excellent numerical indexing scheme worked out by John Stachel, and which I use when appropriate. I'd like to take this opportunity to commend the friendly assistance of the library staff. Copies of Einstein's 1935 correspondence with Schrödinger were part of a gift package that I received from Linda Wessels. I am in her debt, as will be every reader who finds something of interest in my references to that material. I want to give credit to Dana Fine, who helped enormously with the various mss and their translation, and to Micky Forbes who informed and guided its English. With regard to the residue, however, I do reserve credit (and blame) for myself.
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Fine, A. What is Einstein's statistical interpretation, or, is it Einstein for whom Bell's theorem tolls?. Topoi 3, 23–36 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136117
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