Letter to Spencer Weart, director of AIP Center for History of Physics, including reminiscences about Harrington's interest in physics as a child and as a teen; his graduate education at Princeton University under Karl T. Compton, Allen Shenstone, Henry Norris Russell, Luther P. Eisenhart, Oswald Veblen, Edwin P. Adams, Rudolf Ladenberg, Louis A. Turner, and Henry D. Smyth; his own teaching experiences at Drew University during the Depression; changes during the Second World War; his employment with the Naval Research Laboratory and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; and his thoughts on current conditions. Respondents were asked to duscuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers, their satisfactions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large.