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Michelson’s results are not yet ready (not available),
although he is very busily working on the “optical circuit”
experiments (on Mount
Wilson).[4]
Please, dear Professor, do have patience with me and write
me very soon.
Yours very sincerely, with most cordial greetings,
L. Silberstein.
198. To Elsa Einstein
[Wustrow, 1 August
1921][1]
Dear Else,
I’m sending you herewith a draft for the Eng American
press,[2]
which would
have to be translated in Berlin by a good linguist and checked by us. I believe that
such a humorous treatment of the
business[3]
would be the best way to take the edge
off it. We are thinking of departing from here Tuesday morning in 8 days (on the
9th), and if possible
traveling[4]
by water with the boys to
Kiel.[5]
Between the
18 th and the 20th I’ll be coming home again. Time is just going by too fast; it’s
very nice and comfortable.
The boys are both very healthy and intelligent and swim about like whales. I
might be taking Albert with me to
Bologna.[6]
It really is nice to have such big boys.
What’s up with the log
cabin?[7]
Best regards from your
Albert.
Tear up my letter, [. .
.][8]
199. From Michele Besso
Bern, 42 Ziegler Street, 1 August 1921
Dear Albert,
To your letter of 28 May I responded about a month later with all sorts of ques-
tions about the future University of Jerusalem. Since then, I have even more ques-
tions stacked up—about negotiations by you regarding a lecture tour with
Lunacharsky, for
inst.[1]
Today this article in the Bund is
added:[2]
and I would
really be curious to know whether this wasn’t a devilishly well-balanced selection
of statements really made by you, mainly to discredit you among Americans and at
the same time to discredit Americans among the Swiss.
Whoever wanders through there like a child, like Zangger and you, among the
iron members of these grizzled, mutually harrying monsters, is untouched, as far as