14 DOCS.
10-13 MARCH-SEPTEMBER
1903
But
now
I
no
longer
dare
look into
your
furious countenance.
Enjoy
this
wonderful
time
of the
year
with
Jakob,
go on sacrificing
yourself
merrily
for each
other,
and in the
afternoon
sip
your
cup
of
coffee
cozily
in
each other's
company
in
your idyllic
retreat.[7]
With kind
regards,
your
Albert Einstein
11.
To Jakob
Ehrat
[Bern,
last week
of
March
1903][1]
Dear Jakob the
Silent:
Thank
you
for
sending me
the
tables,
which have
just arrived,
and
which,
unfortunately,
do
not
contain
any
material of
use
to
me,
since
they
date
from
1883(!).
Poor
Polytechnikum![2]
I
fell
ill
with
dyphtheria
and
have
already
been
away
from the
office
for
more
than
a
week.
For
a
day
and
a
half
my
temperature
was
constantly
over
400,
and I
am
still
extremely
weak
on my
feet.
My
last
paper
on
the
foundations
of
thermodynamics
will
now
appear soon.[3]
It
assumes only
the foundations of atomic
physics, no
further
physical
hypothesis.[4]
You
must
read
and
judge it. Greetings,
your
Albert Einstein
12.
From
Mileva
Einstein-Maric
[Budapest,
27
August 1903]
Dear
Jonzerl,[1]
I'm
already
in
Budapest,
it's
going quickly,
but
it's hard,
I
don't
feel
at
all well.
What
are you doing,
little
Jonzile,
write
me
soon,
will
you.
Your
poor
Schno[xl?]
13.
To
Mileva
Einstein-Maric
Bern.Friday.[19?
September
1903][1]
Dear
Schnoxl,
I'm
not at all
angry
that
my poor
Schnoxl must be
on
the nest.
What's
more,
I
am
even
delighted
about
it and have
already
been
pondering
whether
I
should
not
see
to
it
that
you get a new Lieserl,[2]
so
that
you
won't
be
deprived
of that
which
is
every
woman's
right.
Don't
worry
but
come
home
in
a happy
mood,
and
brood
very carefully
so
that
someting
good
will
hatch
out.[3]