64. MILEVA MARIC
TO
HELENE KAUFLER
Zurich,
Monday
[4
June
-
23
July
1900]
My
dear, dear Miss Kaufler!
[...]
Also,
I
was
rather
anxiously
waiting
for certain
reports,
but
alas! these do
not
seem
to be
very
favorable for
me,
because if
even
you, you
dear, kind-hearted
person,
stoop to
mockery, then
the
situation must be
really
bad. Do
you
think that she does not like
me
at all? Did she make fun of
me
really
badly?
You know, I seemed to
myself
so
wretched at the moment,
so
thoroughly
wretched,
but then I
comforted myself all the
same,
because after all the most important
person
is of
a
different
opinion, and when he paints
beautiful
pictures
of the
future,
then I forget
all
my
wretchedness,
or
do
you
think that I shouldn't?
[...]
For the
time being, everything
goes on
as
usual
in
our
Zurich,
but the Pension
Engelbrecht
seems
to
stand
before great changes:
among
others, Miss Drazic
and Miss Botta
also
want to bid
farewell to
it;
heavy blows of fate for Miss Engelbrecht! The
girls
seem
to be
somewhat
cross
with
me
too,
though
I
have
not the
slightest
idea why;
maybe I must
even
atone
for
other
people's sins,
or
God
knows what.
[...]
Today Mr. Einstein also made
up
a
little
satirical
poem
about
them,
very
good but
very
wicked, and he will
give
it
to them. This
will
really
be
something.
--
Mr.
Einstein
sends
you
his best
regards,
he is
extraordinarily
pleased
that
you
liked his "old
lady"
so
much, and almost
seems a
little envious
because his father is said to be
so
handsome.
[...]
Mileva
Maric
65.
TO
ZURICH CITY COUNCIL
Zurich,
26 June 1900
City
Council Zurich
Highly
esteemed Mr.
City
President!
Highly
esteemed Messrs.
City Councilors!
The
undersigned,
ALBERT EINSTEIN, stud. math. at the
Federal
Polytechnikum,
born
on
14
March
1879, from Ulm,
Württemberg,
herewith
respectfully
requests that
on
payment of the
legal
fee
you
admit
him
to the
Citizens'
Federation of the
City
of Zurich.
Domiciled in Zurich since 29 October 1896, I have
always
devoted
myself
to
studies
and believe that in
no manner
have I
given
grounds
for
any
conclusions that
could
be
an
obstacle to the
granting
of the
citizenship.
I take the
liberty
of
attaching
to
my
request the approval of the
Federal
Council, required
by
municipal
law for the
acquisition
of
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