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One more thing: Max wants to stay 2 days in Nauheim so that he can join his
colleagues in the evening. Do you want to do the same? Or would you rather always
drive over there (in 1 hour) from here? Should we alternatively reserve a room for
you, and for how many days? But in any event, you will still be staying with us be-
fore and afterwards! No god can help you out of that! We are traveling on August
6 via Munich, Merano, Bolzano, to Sulden, Sulden Hotel, Tyrol (Italy), properly
equipped with passports and liras. Your wife still wanted to write
me[7]
when you’ll
be traveling to southern Germany; how is she doing, and her daughters?
[8]
Very cordial greetings to all of you, from your faithful
Max and Hedi Born.
Very strictly confidential: [Laue] seems to want to leave Berlin; what’s going on?
He asked [Wachsmuth] to appoint him back here because he’s not happy with his
position in B. He was purportedly just extraord. Prof. and with extraord. salary.
That simply isn’t
true![9]
96. To Eduard Einstein
[Berlin,] 1 August 1920
Dear Tete,
Your long letter with the sweet pictures delighted
me.[1]
It also often hurts me
that I have so little of both of you. But I am a very busy man and can leave here
only
infrequently.[2]
Additionally, under the current difficult conditions it is too ex-
pensive for me in Switzerland. I certainly am glad, though, if I can support you
there.[3]
But now I am enthusiastic about seeing you both on October 5 in Benzin-
gen near
Sigmaringen.[4]
We’ll be staying either with the priest
there,[5]
who is a
good friend of mine, or with a local lady, whom he has recommended to us. I am
hoping that we can be together there for at least 10 days. Then I have to travel to
Holland in order to give a
lecture;[6]
the exact time is not fixed for me, though; it
all just has to be in
October.[7]
The two of us were so rarely together that I hardly
know you at all, even though I am your
father.[8]
I’m sure you have only a quite
vague idea of me too. But I’ll make an effort to change that. In part it comes from
your having been ill so
much.[9]
So we’ll be meeting in Sigmaringen. If you both
could come a couple of days earlier, that would be very nice. Find out sometime
exactly when your fall vacation starts and then write me about it. It’s nice that you
are a good pupil; writing neatly was a weak spot for me
too.[10]
Don’t be too ambi-
tious in school. It does no harm when other pupils are better than
you.[11]
I’m very
much looking forward to our conversations together. I know Albert’s interests quite
precisely, because I spent almost a month together with him last year, you
know.[12]