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DOCS. 16-18
FEBRUARY-APRIL
1904
16.
To
Conrad Habicht
[Bern,
20
February 1904]
Dear
Habicht,
14
days ago
Graf[1]
told
me
to
let
you
know
that
a
certain
Swiss
private
school
X
announced
a vacancy
for which
you
should
apply.[2]
So
please
thank him
for
his
kindness.-
Do
come again, you
miserable
creature,
you
most
pitiable
of
all
the membra
academica[3]
who
ever
inhabited
this world! I would scold
you
even more,
but
space
doesn't
allow
it.
With
heartfelt
greetings
from
your
A.E.
17.
To
Marcel Grossmann
Bern.
Wednesday [6? April
1904][1]
Dear
Marcel,[2]
Quite
belatedly,
let
me
congratulate
you
with
all
my
heart
on
your
son,[3]
and
thank
you
for
having
sent
me
your
most
recent
paper,[4]
which
I
will
certainly study
as soon as
I
can get some
time to
devote to
non-Euclidean
geometry.
Your solutions
look
very
simple
and
elegant.
There
is
a
remarkable
similarity
between
us.
Next
month
we are
also
going
to have
a
baby.[5]
And
you
will also receive
a
paper
from
me,
one
that
I
sent
to
Wiedemann's
Annalen
a
week
ago.[6]
You
treat
geometry
without
the
parallel axiom,
and
I
treat
the
atomistic
theory
of
heat
without
the
kinetic
hypothesis.
Do
you
know
that Ehrat
has
a
job
in
a
private
school
near
Göttingen?[7]
He
likes
it
very
much
there.
I
am
very glad
that
he has found
a
pleasant position
and
does
not
have
to
play
the "satellite"
any
longer.[8]
Please
give my
love
to
your wife[9]
and
to
your
son
although
we
don't
know
each
other.
Cordially yours,
Albert
and his
student[10]
18.
To
Conrad Habicht
[Bern] Friday
[15
April 1904]
Dear Habicht,
I
will
receive
you
with
pleasure
and with the rest
of
my
feelings-we
have
put
that
up
in
preserve jars
for
appropriate
occasions-and
in
a
cheerful mood
as
well
at
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