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DOCS.
162-164 DECEMBER
1915
Now I
am
going up
the
Zugerberg
with
him.[3]
Of
course
we’ll
see
each
other
on
that
occasion.
I sent
you
the
papers
today.[4]
The
boldest dreams have
now
been
fulfilled. General covariance.
Mercury’s perihelion
motion
wonderfully precise.
The latter
is
completely
secure
from
the
astronomical
standpoint,
since New-
comb’s
mass
determinations
for
the
inner
planets
are
from
periodic
perturbations
(not
from secular
ones).[5]
This time
the
nearest
at
hand
was
right;
but
Gross-
mann
& I
believed that
the
conservation laws
were
not satisfied and Newton’s
law did not result in first-order
approximation.[6] You
will be
surprised
by
the
appearance
of
the
g11
...
g33’s.[7]
Cordial
greetings
also
to
Anna
&
Prof.
Winteler
from
your
contented but
quite
worn-out
Albert.
163. To Mileva Einstein-Maric
[Berlin,
10
December
1915]
D[ear] M[ileva],
Your letter,
which
just arrived, prompts
me
to
travel
to
Switzerland
now
after
all.
For
there
is
a
faint chance
that
I’ll
please
Albert
by
coming.[1]
Tell him
this
and
see
to
it that
he receives
me
fairly cheerfully.
I’m
quite
tired
and
overworked,
you
see,
and
not
capable
of
enduring
new
agitations
and
disappointments.[2]
With
my greetings
to
you
and
kisses for
the
boys,
Albert.
164.
From Michele Besso
Krummenau,
11
December
1915
Dear
Albert,
A
week
ago yesterday
I
received
your
postcard
in which
you
announce
your
intention
not
to
come
to
Switzerland for
Christmas[1]-on
Monday
at
Prof.
Zang-
ger’s
I
then
saw
your
letter addressed to
him[2]
and
little
Alb[ert’s]
letter
to
you[3]-then
[looked]
at
Prof.
Z.’s
letter
to
you.
He
was
furious
with
your
wife;
I
for
my
part
must
admit that
I
had
not
expected
much
else
of her.
It
is
now
obviously
not
a
matter
of
establishing
harmony,
for which
fundamental
precon-
ditions
are
simply
lacking[4]-I
would
like to
lend
you my glasses,
which scale
things
down
to size
and
provide
some
objectivity, only
because
I
think that
you
could defend
yourself
much
better without
rage.
That the
boy
would
naturally
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