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resolved to stay in Berlin. I didn’t manage to speak with Haber. There’s time for
that in
Berlin.[2]
Yesterday evening the priest and Inge collected me in
Veringendorf by
carriage.[3]
The trip was exhausting, thanks to the border
business.[4]
Umbrella and stockings are safe. For them, I left my comb and my hair-
brush in Schaffhausen at the
Habichts’.[5]
It’s beautiful here. On Thursday I’ll be
departing with
Fidelia[6]
and Inge and by human calculation should be with you in
Berlin on Friday.
Warm regards, yours,
Albert.
I didn’t write the children but they’ll have left by
now.[7]
I wrote Mrs.
Hellberg[8]
from Zurich as soon as I received your postcard.
Vol. 9, 87a. From Hans Albert Einstein
[Zurich, after 15 August
1919][1]
Dear Papa,
I am very sorry that this nice
holiday[2]
should have ended with an annoyance.
But I don’t believe that you left your things here. I inquired at the boarding
house,[3]
and there was nothing there; it cannot be the laundry, because Bertha did the wash-
ing, and
Bertha[4]
also did not take it, since nothing else has ever been missing yet.
Also, Bertha thinks she saw the tie while packing, and it is quite probable that ev-
erything disappeared together. I would much rather believe that it must have gotten
lost during your trip, e.g., at the customs
office.[5]
Mama[6]
makes the suggestion that as a replacement you perhaps take a few
pieces of laundry from earlier, which Mama intends to have mended. Have you al-
ready asked the southern German
priest[7]
whether it isn’t there?
The little
plane[8]
is finished now with a simple motor; the double-motor is too
heavy aft. The wheels are also not strong enough, and I still have to change them;
and then it still has to go on a test flight. I think that the motor is not suitable for
actual operation, since it already runs out just as the little plane attains its full speed.
I won’t see until the test flight (which I’m terrified of) exactly how things stand.
Lots of love from
Adn!
P.S. Please don’t be upset about it; maybe you also left something in Lucerne. In
any case, we would like to provide you with what is here.