LIST OF TEXTS 1. Birth Certificate, 15 March 1879 1 2. Pauline Einstein to Fanny Einstein, 1 August 1886 3 3. Comment on the Proof of a Theorem, 1891-1895 3 4. Two Philosophical Comments, 1891-1895 4 Editorial Note: Einstein's First Scientific Essay 5 5. "On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a Magnetic Field," Summer? 1895 6 6. To Caesar Koch, Summer 1895 9 Editorial Note: ETH Entrance Examination and Aargau Kantonsschule 10 7. Albin Herzog to Gustav Maier, 25 September 1895 12 8. Entrance Report of the Gewerbeschule, Aargau Kantonsschule, ca. 26 October 1895 13 9. Gustav Maier to Jost Winteler, 26 October 1895 14 10. Aargau Kantonsschule Record, 26 October 1895- 3 October 1896 15 11. Hermann Einstein to Jost Winteler, 29 October 1895 17 12. Minutes of the Teachers' Conference, Aargau Kantonsschule, 8 November 1895 18 13. Jost Winteler to Gustav Maier, 21 December 1895 18 14. Hermann Einstein to Jost Winteler, 30 December 1895 19 15. Pauline Einstein to the Winteler Family, 30 December 1895 19 16. Release from Württemberg Citizenship, 28 January 1896 20 17. Inspector's Report on a Music Examination, Aargau Kantonsschule, ca. 31 March 1896 21 18. To Marie Winteler, with a Postscript by Pauline Einstein, 21 April 1896 21 19. Final Grades, Aargau Kantonsschule, 5 September 1896 23 Editorial Note: Matura Examinations at the Gewerbeschule, Aargau Kantonsschule 23