DOCS.
485,
486
NOVEMBER
1913 363
485.
From the Prussian
Academy
of Sciences
Berlin,
22
November
1913
Dear
Sir,
On
behalf of the
Royal
Academy
of
Sciences,
I have
the honor
to
inform
you
that
the latter has elected
you
a
regular
member of
its
phys-math. section,[1]
and that
this
election
has
been confirmed
by
His
Majesty
the
Emperor
and
King by
the
supreme
Decree of
12
November
of this
year;[2]
I
request
that
you
now
declare whether
you
will
accept
this
election.
If
you
should
move
to
Berlin,
the Minister of
Eccles. and
Educational
Affairs has
declared himself
ready
to
approve
reimbursement
of
your moving
expenses
in the
amount
of
your
actual
expenditures up
to
the
amount
provided by
law
for
civil
servants
of class
four.[3]
You
will have
to
submit
a
list
of
the
expenses arising
from
your
move
together
with
the
receipts
to the
above-mentioned
minister.
In
addition
to
the
regular
salary
of 900 M.
per
year,
the Acad. has
approved
for
you
a special
personal
salary
of
12,000
M.
per
year;[4]
both salaries will be
paid
to
you
beginning
with
the first
of the month
in which
you move
to
Berlin.
Furthermore,
the
Academy
has
been authorized
by
the Minister of Educational
Affairs
to
inform
you
that-unless
you
hold
another
office
entitling
you
to
survivor
benefits-should the
case
arise,
widow's and
orphans' pensions
will be
granted according
to the
existing
regulations
for
the survivors
of
university professors.[5]
The
presiding secretary
Roethe[6]
486. To
Elsa Löwenthal
[Zurich,
after
22
November
1913][1]
Dear
Elsa,
Itinerant
folk
that
we
both
are,
chosen
by
fate
from
among
the
crowd
of
philistines
to
be
tightrope
dancers, though-thank
God-not
on a
real
tightrope,
but
only
in
the
headroom of human
madness! I wish
you a
fabulous little
dance.[2]
May you
proudly
sit
on
the
little
poets'
steed.
But
if,
God
forbid,
you
were
to fall
off
it all
the
same,
then
I
shall
come
to
Berlin for
the sole
purpose
of
giving you
a
comforting
kiss
(unless
you
will
be
staying
in
Munich
during
the
Christmas
vacation, during
which time
my
wife will
stay
with
the
Habers[3]
to look
for
an
apartment;
what
is
the
situation in this
respect?
I will
devise
a
clever
scheme
depending
on
your
answer).
Official
report:
The hairbrush
is being
regularly
applied,[4]
other
cleansing
also
relatively
regular.
Otherwise,
conduct
so so
la la.
Toothbrush retired
off
again
for
purely
scientific
considerations
having
to do with the
dangerousness
of
hog
bristles:
Hog
bristles bore