lot for it and please another
one
very
soon
again. Surely,
you,
who
have
now so
much time
on
your
hands,
are
not going to follow
my
example just
now
when
I
write
a
little less
to
you.
Every
time,
your
letters
remind
me so
nicely of home. From the succession of
our
joint
experiences
a
peculiar
feeling
has formed
surreptitiously,
which is
awakened at the
slightest
touch,
even
without the recollection of
any
particular detail
becoming quite
conscious, and which makes it
seem
each time
as
if I
were
again
in
my room.
You
are
right
in not
studying
hard, if
it's
only true,
it's
difficult to
totally
believe that,
better take nice
walks
now
that
you
have such
a
good opportunity. All this
time
I have not gotten further
than
our
garden,
we
now
don't
go
to
town at all, there have been
many
cases
of scarlet fever and
diphtheria,
so
that
we
prefer
staying
in
our
fresh and
healthy
air.
N[eusatz] [Novi Sad]
is
a
rather
unhealthy
hole, and in addition it is
now
terribly
hot here. The
sour-cherry
trees
are
blooming
here for the 2d time.
Give
my
kindest
regards
to
Mrs. Einstein and Miss Maja; I shall
be pleased if she writes
to
me
(of
course,
if
you
permit it,
I don't
see
why not,
except
if
you
really
have
a
good reason).
The "cramming"
proceeds slowly.
Fiedler worries
me a
lot, this
seems
to
me
the
hardest nut to crack. You could write
me a
little
on
how it
goes
at
the
examination,
but
you
must not think that the letter should be
filled with the
description only.
(as
a
precautionary
measure)
Do
Fiedler and Herzog ask
also specific things, examples,
or
only
general
questions?
And I would like
to
ask
you
for
one more
thing,
when
you
come
to
Zurich,
please
leave
your
notebook
on
the theory
of
heat with
Mrs.
Markwalder,
I would like to look
up
a
few
things.
You do
not
mention the date of
your
departure from Paradies.
I'll probably be in Zurich
on
the 25th, and instead of
looking
forward
to it, I
am
going
there with such mixed
feelings,
don't
you
feel
sorry
for
me.
I
hope
you
aren't
letting
anyone
read
my
letters,
you
must
promise
me
that:
you
said
you
don't
like
the
profane,
and if to
me
this
seems
profane,
you
could do that for me! What do
you
think.
The
next time
I'll
use a
different mode of address
on
the
letter,
I know
of
a
nicer
one;
it
is
very
pious,
but it
occurred
to
me
too late. -
You must
excuse me
if
my
scribbling
may
betray
some
absent-mindedness,
it
seems
to
me
that I
contracted
a
little of
this lovely quality,
but
not for
good, I hope.
Accept
my
kind
regards
and write
very
soon
to
your
D[oxerl]
54.
TO
MILEVA
MARIC
Sunday. Paradies
[Mettmenstetten,
10
September 1899]
D[ear] D[oxerl]!
I
am
finally
able to write to
you
after receiving
your
dear
little
letter, which I would have liked best of all to
answer
the
very
first
day.
But it had to be forwarded
to Aarau, where it is
too
charming
& one
always gets pestered in such
a
lovely
way
that it is
impossible
to write.
You
poor
thing
must
now
be
cramming really awfully!
If
only
I
could help
you
a
bit, be it
merely
to
bring
you
some
variety,
or
be
it
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