  In this note, we point attention to and briefly discuss a curious manuscript
of Einstein, composed in 1938 and entitled "Unified Field Theory," the only
such writing, published or unpublished, carrying this title without any further
specification. Apparently never intended for publication, the manuscript sheds
light both on Einstein's modus operandi as well as on the public role of
Einstein's later work on a unified field theory of gravitation and
electromagnetism.
