[KMag]

Presumably, the allegations were during his second marriage. This letter was to his first wife.

If the love of my life were to be cut down in the prime of her life, I imagine I'd be emotionally scarred for life. Sure, I'd make every effort to move on, but I just can't imagine the amount of emotional scar tissue that would remain permanently.

[caycep]

The second wife was the one that reported him to the FBI for being "a communist" or something like that?

[lovecg]

Yeah allegedly because Feynman took Oppenheimer’s side while his wife didn’t in the whole debacle.