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cational enterprise. And no one will deny the tenacious courage of our friend
Solovine.[7]
But as a rule your observation is probably right.
Our office has moved into temporary buildings in a splendid verdant quarter. I
almost think, if you visited us here once, you’d apply again for a position at the
office …
[8]
If only the foreign currency didn’t stand in the way of a
visit![9]
If, by
the way as I just read in an article, prices are roughly 8 x peace prices, and inflation
is still calculated as c. 100%, then the difference against here is still 2 1/2 (to 3)
times as much.
Did you receive a letter from me at the end of December or beginning of
January?[10]
Redshift: where did the papers by Perot, Fabri, and Buisson
appear?[11]
I am
living in the wilderness.—And what’s up with the other puzzles, gyroscopic effect
of Ampère’s
currents;[12]
Ehrenfest’s mystery? Is there any news about the quanta?
Cordial greetings from all of us! Yours,
Michele.
147. From Arthur S. Eddington
[London/Cambridge,] 1921 June 12
Dear Professor Einstein
Here is the paper we were speaking about on Friday
night.[1]
Later on I shall be interested to hear whether it fulfils the favourable expecta-
tions you formed in our conversation about it. But I am sure you will be kept very
busy during your short stay in England; so do not trouble about it until you are more
at leisure.
You will I think be interested in the conclusion I come to in §12—that this work
is an extension, but is not in the slightest degree an emendation, of yours and that
ds is actually comparable at a distance (i.e.,
integrable)[2]
Yours sincerely
A. S. Eddington
Translator’s note: Original written in English.
148. From Paul Ehrenfest
Delft [Leyden?], 14 June [1921]
Dear Einstein,
Unfortunately I don’t know how long you’ll still be in England. But I hurry to
inform you anyway of the following: