Printed Keepsake Signed by Whyte and his third wife Eva [Korner].

Scottish mathematical physicist and philosopher of science (1896-1972), Director of Statistical Enquiries in the Ministry of Supplies, and chairman and managing director of the company which developed the Whittle jet engine. 3 pages, 8vo. Dusty and creased. Page 3 carries a reproduction of a pencil portrait of Goethe, beneath which is a quotation from him in German. Facing this on page 2 is an English translation of the passage: 'Nobody understands that the formative process is the supreme process, indeed the only one, alike in nature and art.' This is followed by an eight-line commentary, presumably by Whyte. Printed on page 1 is 'A Happy Christmas | From | LANCE AND EVA WHYTE | December 1948'. Signed by Whyte 'Love | Lance' and by his wife 'Eva'. Whyte married Eva Korner [the art historian?] in 1947.