Pauli should not be
angry
about the postcard from
my
sister.
She
wouldn't have
allowed herself this teasing had I not been behind it.
Cordially,
your
Albert.
Kindest
regards
to
your
loved
ones &
also Miss Julia!
57.
TO
MILEVA MARIC
Milan, Thursday.
[28?
September
1899]
D[ear] D[oxerl]!
You
are
such
a
splendid
girl for writing
me so
nicely despite all
your
hard and taxing work. But
you
should also know that
your
letters
always
make
me so
happy that everybody teases
me
for it. You must
have swallowed
a
lot of book dust,
poor
thing,
but
soon
it will be
behind
you
-
I
really
feel
with
you.
I
too
have done much
bookworming
&
puzzling
out,
which
was
in
part
very
interesting.
I also
wrote to Professor
Wien
in Aachen about the
paper on
the relative
motion of the luminiferous ether
against
ponderable matter, which the
"Principal"
treated in such
a
stepmotherly
fashion.
I read
a
very
interesting
paper
published by
this
man on
the
same
topic
in 1898. He
will write
me
via
Polytechnikum (when
it's for
certain!).
If
you
see
there
a
letter addressed to
me,
you may
take it and
open
it.
I'll be back "home" about the 15th. I look forward to it with
great joy, because
our
place is still the nicest and coziest
after
all.
Maya
is
going
to
Aarau
chiefly
because
we
know
a
family
there
very
well and because life is less
expensive
there;
we
must
keep
that
very
much in
mind.
Mrs. Markwalder feels herself bound to.... She is
an
angel of
presentiment.
I
have
already
written to her that I
agree
&
have given
her
permission
to
assign
the
room
in whichever
way.
I would
move
to
somewhere in the
Plattenstrasse, but
not into
your
house
-
for the
sake of
people's
tongues.
I would
move
to
the
Zürichberg
if it would
not be
so
far
away
from "us."
By
the
time
you
receive
my
letter,
the Fiedlering will
probably
be already
behind
you
-
I
think
so
much about it.
Everything
will
go
all
right
-
your
hard
little
head
guarantees
me
that.
If
only
I could
peep
through
the
keyhole!
When
one
is
taking
such
an
examination,
one
feels
so
responsible
for everything
one
thinks and does
as
if
one were
in
a
penal institution.
Isn't it so? At this time I
was
laughing
so
much with
Grossmann
about these things
-
but
an
uninvolved
party
could have
commented,
"laughing
on
the outside, cracking
in the
inside."
My
sister will
probably
not stop in
Zurich
at
all;
rather, I
shall
accompany
her to Aarau, but I shall not stay
there beyond
that.
Here I again feel rather
uncomfortable,
because the climate does not
agree
with
me
at all
&
because of the lack of
some
definite work I
brood too much
-
in
brief,
I
see &
feel that I
am
not under
your
beneficient
thumb,
which otherwise keeps
me
within bounds.
Neuweiler is the
black
one
that
always
drinks milk. It also has
eyeglasses
and
very
little
fat.
You don't have to
be
afraid at all
that I'll be
going
to Aarau
very
often
now.
Because the critical
little
daughter
is
coming
home, with whom I fell
so
terribly
in love
4
years
ago.
To be
sure,
I feel otherwise
very
safe in
my
high
castle
135