Memories from a Clark University Friend and Colleague

I enjoyed Theo’s friendship during 1972-74 while a graduate student at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he had recently come with appointment as chairman of the history department. Especially keen remains the moment I first saw Theo in his office upon his return in 1974 from his second Guggenheim Fellowship, spent mainly in the British Museum Library in London, where his nemesis Karl Marx had also worked more than a century before him, and where he apparently took a liking for a young English librarian who brought him the books he needed. Theo broke the news to me by announcing, “Harold, I have met a fine young English woman. She has agreed to be my research assistant, my secretary, and my wife.” The end of the story was that Theo very much enjoyed his second marriage, which was of a quarter century duration, with a quarter century younger spouse, with no children, but with many years of vigorous hiking in the Cotswolds, the Dolomites, and elsewhere. Theo died in 2000 and Angela, who gave Theo a renewed lease on life, continues to cherish their years together, while she also continues to update the history textbook on Russia that they wrote together.