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this shouldn’t work, I shall, of course, apply to the Electrophysics Committee, after
all, and in this case request an answer as soon as possible and the return of the letter
by
Warburg.[5]
Hearty greetings and many apologies for this pestering, most cordially yours,
Franck.
Please
turn.[6]
P. S. There isn’t much new to relate about physics. We here are in the midst of an
exchange of letters with
Bohr[7]
about degenerate
systems,[8]
and
Born[9]
and I are
ruthlessly racking our brains over it. In the interim I have been in Cambridge
where, following a famous model of English speaking, I substituted courage for
grammar. To that extent everything went well and the people were especially nice
to me.
Most cordially,
T[he]
A[bove-named].[10]
363. From Albert Wigand
Halle-on-S[aale], 9 Kochschütter St., 4 November 1924
[Not selected for translation.]
364. From Maja Winteler-Einstein
Colonnata (Florence), 8 November 1924
Dear Albert and dear Elsa,
Your postcard brought on not a trifling but a happy shock. Oh, if only it were
possible for us to be able to keep our little house without constantly being preoc-
cupied by the fear of having to sell it, then our greatest wish would be
fulfilled.[1]
But you write so sphynxlike that I still don’t dare to think of the possibility of such
a solution. In any case, the mere hope of such a solution is the finest birthday pres-
ent I ever received, and I thank you very sincerely for
that.[2]
We had bought the little house at that time in hope of paying it off with the Zu-
rich
income.[3]
If the business had continued until 1925, the house would have be-
come completely debt-free. The Lucerne Cantonal Bank had loaned us the money
against collateral that a friend of mine had
provided.[4]
The loaned sum totaled
10,000
francs.[5]