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quickly as possible and bring it to completion before my
departure.[1]
I would also
like to ask you kindly again to send me the address of Mrs.
Untermyer[2]
so that I
can write her and suggest to her what you had advised me to
do.[3]
How are you, otherwise? Are you well? Don’t you want to publish the lecture
you held a few months ago at King’s College in London? I would so much like to
translate it into
French.[4]
I was exceedingly pleased to learn from the papers that your esteemed wife is
waging a heated battle against
war.[5]
I always felt the deepest aversion to such
mass murder. That is why I have the highest admiration and respect for all those
who take a courageous stand against it.
Your book about the special and general theory of relativity is now being
reprinted at
Gauthier-Villars.[6]
In most cordial friendship, yours,
M. Solovine
My most friendly regards to your admirable wife and to Miss Ilse Einstein.
211. To Max Born
[Berlin,] 22 August 1921
Dear Born,
Many thanks for the detailed report and the
letter.[1]
The K.W.I. is quite sluggish
because I always have to round up all my dear ones. . . . for a grant. The one you
want would gobble up the most part of our entire riches but would be thoroughly
appropriate, and I hope I can carry it
through.[2]
Just a little patience. I thought up
a very interesting and quite simple experiment on the nature of light emission. I
hope I can conduct it
soon.[3]
For the time being I’m a slave to the dam[ned] post-
man again, who is inundating me mercilessly. I spent a happy month with my boys
by the
lake.[4]
Hearty congratulations to you and your
wife[5]
and best regards from
your
A. Einstein.
212. From James Franck
Göttingen, 9 Bunsen St., 24 August 1921
Dear Professor Einstein,
Today I would like to go against one of my principles, which is to spare you as
much as possible from silly questions. I hope you are not all that cross with me for
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