DOCS.
332,
333
APRIL-MAY
1917 323
332. To Emil Beck
[Berlin,
30 April
1917]
Upholding
application.
Letter
Besso.[1]
Greetings-Einstein.
Document
description:
“1917
10
o’clock.”
333. From Michele Besso
Zurich, 4
May
1917
Dear Albert,
The
motion
was
discussed this
evening by
the
Physical Society
and
was
passed
in
the
sense
that
his former
colleagues
and friends bear
witness,
from
their
own
experience,
to
the
personal qualities
and scientific efforts
of
the
former member
(entrusted
to
the hands
of
the
defense
attorney,
who should make
use
of
the
attestation
at his
discretion).-[1]
Our
dear friend
Zangger
reported
about
your family
for
you:
Miza and
the
little
one
are-very
well
provided
for-at the
private
hospital;[2]
your
little
boy
is
so
well
that
with
his
vitality he
does
not
quite
fit into the
surroundings:
But
now
it
will
be
possible,
after
all,
despite
the late
spring,
to
bring
him to
Arosa,
where it is
hoped
that
an
extended
stay will
secure
him
lasting
health.[3]
Little Albert
is
also
there
now,
since
Sunday,
because he had
a
sudden
bout
of
fever:
very
many
such
unexplained
minor sicknesses
of
short duration
have
appeared
among
the
children
here,
and it
is
obviously nothing grave
in his
case
either.-
Then friend
Zangger
will
take him in
temporarily:
He had been
there
for
one or
two
days already
before he
was overcome
by
the
fever
attack
(which
just
set in
exactly
when he
was visiting
his
mother)
and felt
very
comfortable
there.[4]
I
hope
to be able
to meet
with him
more
often
now as
well.-
Then
it will be
revealed
whether
a
few
months
of
absolute rest
can
help
Miza.-Life
is
a
strange
thing.
I
believe
it is-by
definition-surely
always
worth
living through:
but the
worst
it
can
hold and
the
best
are
not
so
terribly
far
apart
from
one
another
and
not
substantially
different to
the
most absolute nonexistence
we can
imagine
for
ourselves.-Written
down,
it
is
empty
rhetoric;
but
you
know how
I feel
about
it!
Your
old
Besso.
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