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SEPTEMBER
1915 129
both
as an
academic member
of
the
staff and
as a person.[3]
With
all due
respect, yours very truly,
A.
Einstein.
120. To
Heinrich
Zangger
[Kreuzlingen,] Sunday, 3
o’clock
[19
September
1915][1]
Dear friend
Zangger,
He
who
goes
on a
journey
has
something
to
tell,
but
I particularly
so.
In
Constance
they
found
fault
with
my
passport
because
a
visa
from
the
German
consulate in Zurich
was
missing.
Ergo,
I
was
conveyed by
honorary military
es-
cort
(a “gray boy”)
to
Kreuzlingen,[2]
where
I
first looked
around
for
a means
of communication
with
Constance. Then
I
sent
an
initiated
cyclist-naturally
nothing
in writing-over
to
the
object
of
my
desires
in the
Land
of
-Promise.
Said
object
had
already changed
location,
however, so
that
I
would
anyway
have
only
found
a
vacated nest had
my
“brave
field-grays”
not saved
me
from
disap-
pointment. Now
for
the
moment
I
am
stuck in
the
Lions Hotel in
Kreuzlingen*
to rest
on
my
momentary
laurels. I
am
enclosing my
passport
with the
request
to
have it viséed and
thereupon sent
back
to
me.
Should
the
“powers-that-be”
refuse
to
attach their
blessing
to
the
passport,
however,
please
summon me
back
to
Zurich
by telegraph.
I
shall
always
remember with
gratitude
the
many
interesting
conversations
and hours
enjoyably spent
otherwise
together,
in
Zurich and
on
the
road,
no
less
for
the
kind solicitude with which
you
have
brought my boys
closer
to
me
again.
No less
do
I
thank
your
wife,[3]
for her
friendly
and at
the
same
time salubrious
hospitality.
Best
regards
from
your
stranded
Einstein
My
farewells to
Heller.[4]
Greetings
also to
my boys,
in
case
you see
them.
The
young
Pole
appealed
to
me
very much;[5]
he is
definitely
a
decent
fellow,
critical
and
yet
not
unhealthily skeptical.
*‘Kreuz’ alone
translates
as
‘cross,
crucifix’.
[1]
Einstein’s
note to Hans Tanner:
“I
am
returning
home now.”
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