Wow, there's a solid four boxes of correspondence alone, dating all the way back to the 40s when Gest was a grad student and working with the brightest minds of the time on the Manhatten Project. Amazing stuff.
Also amusing was some correspondence with the Oxford English Dictionary. One of Gest's major areas of work is photosynthesis, and he took issue with their definition. He sent them a packet to prove his credentials and a suggested new definition. They wrote back that they were revising the whole OED, and being so large it takes a few years. They definitely wanted his input, but at the moment were somewhere around J and would get back to him.
Roughly a year later Gest wrote them a follow-up that amounted to "...well? What's taking you so long?"
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