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1917 295
I
should therefore be
very grateful
to
you
if
you
would read
my work,
as soon as
it
is
finished,
and
give me
your
verdict. I shall
provide you
with
a
duplicate
as
soon as
possible.
I
should also be
grateful
if
you
could send
me an
offprint
of
your paper
from
the
Annalen,
1916,
Volume
49, p.
769,[8]
as
I must
return
the
issue
again
and
still
need it.
I
possess
a
quite complete
set
of
your
earlier
papers.
On
the other
hand,
if
anything
has been
published
since
the
paper mentioned,
I
would
appreciate
your sending
it
to
me.
Healthwise
I
am
fine
and,
since
I
have
the
opportunity rarely
offered in
life
of
being
able to work in
peace,
I
am
completely happy,
even
though
the time
still
available to
me can
be counted
only by
the
week.[9]
I
often
think
back with
pleasure
on
the
hours
I
was
able to
spend
with
you
and send
you my
cordial
greetings
as an
old
friend and in sincere
admiration,
yours,
Fr. Adler.
308.
To
Michele
Besso
[Berlin,
after
9
March
1917][1]
Dear
Michele,
It
is
very
nice of
you
and
Vero
to look
after
my
Albert.
It
has
always
been
a
dear wish
of
mine
that
he
come
to
see you.
I advised him
to
do
so
in almost
every
letter.
I
am
also
pleased
that
my poor
little
boy
is
doing
all
right;
but
I have
no
grand illusions.[2]
One
must
be able
to
look
the truth
in
the
eye,
hard
though
it
may
be.
I
have
difficulty explaining why
Miza
disapproves
of
your
visiting;
but
there
are
more
things
in heaven and
earth ......
A
letter
to
Dällenbach and
you
is
on
the
way.[3]
Now to
the
A
=
1/R
matter.[4]
Quite
apart
from
the
correctness
or
incorrectness
issue, we are
not
dealing
with
a
matter
of
great
scientific
significance;
I
do not delude
myself
about that. It
merely
involves
this
question:
If at
one
place
I choose
Galilean
guv's
and continue
the
system
in
the
most suitable
manner
possible,
how
do
the
guv's
behave when
I
continue
on
for
a
vast
distance, spatially
and
temporally?
Is
it
possible
to arrange
it
that
the
guv's
really
are
determined
solely
by
the
matter,
as
the
relativity
concept
would have
it?[5]
Now,
almost
all
the
objections you
are
making
are
legitimate.
The
arguments
provided by
me are
not
actually compelling,
as
is
normally
the
case
in all
things concerning
real facts. But
I
do believe
that
I
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