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280. From Elsa Einstein
[Berlin, after 22 October
1921][1]
My dear good husband,
I am moved by Planck and his feelings for you; he really is a fine
person.[2]
I
immediately told you, when you spoke about the jubilee convention, that you had
given him a painful blow with your
announcement.[3]
Don’t be so terribly resentful
and spiteful and don’t always just sniff out the bad sides! There is so much good-
ness and kindness that you are trampling on others with your brusque stance.
Planck loves you, I know that better than you can ever know.—And don’t you ever
become petty, not you! People of value believe in you, and that has to be your mea-
sure. Paul Habicht was
here.[4]
As you aren’t here, he came to me; I have such a
sense of mutual understanding with him. We were together for hours; I really
enjoyed myself with him. Otherwise, nothing of note. I took in Dr. Anuschat, who’s
staying with us until she has found proper
accommodations.[5]
I had picked her up
at a rental agency, distraught, exhausted, and starving. I hired a maid for Nov.
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but the lonesome woman is staying here until I can put her up somewhere properly.
She is a [. . .].
281. From Theodor Kaluza
Königsberg, Pr[ussia], 34 Steinmetz St., 24 October 1921
Highly esteemed Professor,
I received your kind proposal, which I naturally am glad to comply with, with
great
pleasure.[1]
Although local conditions forced me again to devote the little free
time that my teaching duties leave
me[2]
on purely mathematical considerations,
and I cannot come immediately forward with a decisive clarification of that -
problem,[3]
it does not appear now to be quite as insurmountably imposing as then.
For now, I will soon send you, highly esteemed Professor, an outline of the idea
with a reference to the discrepancy pointed out by you.
With sincere thanks for your not yet extinct interest, I am most respectfully
yours,
Kaluza.
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