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145. From Richard B. Haldane
Westminster, 6 June 1921
Dear Professor Einstein,
I send this to greet you on your arrival in our
country.[1]
You will find yourself
as admired a figure here as in America; at least as much so.
I am looking forward to yourself and Mrs Einstein dining here on Friday
evening.[2]
The Prime
Minister[3]
and the Archbishop of
Canterbury[4]
will I hope
be [here] to meet you, as well as representatives of the learned world. Would you
and Mrs Einstein be so kind as to arrive here, if convenient at 7:55. The other guests
will come a few minutes later, & my
sister[5]
& I would like much to see you both
first.
I enclose letters which have come for you.
I also venture to send you a book I have just published, on the philosophical im-
portance of the doctrine for which you have done so
much.[6]
With deep respect Yours truly
Haldane
Queen Anne’s Gate in Westminster, near the House of Parliament.
What will your address be in London?
Translator’s note: Original written in English.
146. From Michele Besso
Bern, 42 Ziegler Street, 10 June
1921[1]
Dear Albert,
Just a note to thank you for your friendly letter from New York, for which the
much harried sender warrants specially high
appreciation.[2]
When it’s conve-
nient, e.g., with a publication, I would like to know what was being sought there
and what has been accomplished. A Jerusalem
university?[3]
What state authority
is it being subordinated to, or from what quarter is its protection being guaranteed?
What type will it be? (English college system or German-Italian type? Are new
structures being tried out, or is a division into faculties being implemented?) What
faculties besides medicine are envisioned? What will be the language of instruc-
tion? Are you planning to be personally involved there,
too?[4]
Sometime you’ll also tell me about your experiences regarding the intelligence
and lack of courage of our fellow
clansmen.[5]
Courageous ones do also exist! I
know of two in a single family as one example, a certain Emilio and a certain Silvio
Michelstädter from
Gorizia,[6]
who would fit well in a new and novel type of edu-
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