9 8 0 I N D E X EINSTEIN, ALBERT (1879–1955): PERSONAL (cont.) Besso’s role in dissolution of his marriage to Mileva, 233 “best books of 1928,” 466 big-city living exhausting, 35 “stupid” city life, 410n on biographies, 21 on brain growing rancid with age, 21 on British scholars, 64 Brussels, impressions of 1927 trip to, 133 on burglars, 289 on busy lifestyle, lv Cardinal O’Connell, attacked by, 727n on Catholicism, 426, 428 Celerina, planning trip to, 249 citizenship, Swiss and not German, 915 classical music, laments what has become of, 637 on collaboration with others, 64 commercial use of his name, opposed to, 698, 900a compares himself ironically to “a Negro who is trying, with little success, to conceal his heri- tage by helpless washing,” 385 contemplative existence, longing for, 19 correspondence on being poor correspondent, 19 large volume of, 553, 945 lazy in, 6 overwhelmed by, 35 personal, 26 steep rise in, xlii only bailiff receiving more letters, 311 writing few personal letters, 244 “the curiosity file,” 945 on death, 80, 532 death threats, 16, 316n on “deterioration of the race,” abhors, lx, 203 diet, 5, 6, 527 eating onions on quack’s advice, 626 dissertation, 623 was supposed to send “cock-a- doodle-doo” to Marie Barthelts, 623, 667 duties, overwhelmed by, 19 toward others, on neglect of, 686 Engadine, the, planned trip to, 253, 258 stay in, 284 English language, on his difficulties with, 65 ethical impulses, has followed predilections more than, 686 on eudaimonism, 203 on expressionism, 910 on fame, 17 “gawked at” by members of the bourgeoisie, 609 father role, with Eduard, 39 favorite authors, 909 books, 35 composers, 909 on female members of his family, 385 financial matters AE inquires on repayment of loan to Mileva, 311 liquid assets, has none, 510 Nobel Prize money invested in United States for Mileva, AE on, 344 food, has sufficient, 6 forgetfulness, alleged, xli, lxii Elsa on, 845a has experienced more good fortune than he has deserved, 686n “free man,” feels like a, 16 friendship, on importance of, 669 Gatow, stay at, 478, 511, 524, 531 enjoying sol- itude, 527 like a wild animal, 486n Germany, glad to be absent from, 16 gift of leather briefcase from M. R. Cohen, 315 God believes in Spinoza’s, 716n personal, non-belief in, liv, 83n gray hair, on his, 667 Greeks, admires ancient, 675 on gullibility of people, 419 “gypsy-like way of life,” lxxxv “harassed, inwardly and outwardly,” on being, 21 has laid great egg but colleagues are skeptical, 6 has thick skin, 694 hell, views himself candidate for, 422 hermit, describes himself as, 511 on higher education, 683 at home, on his preference for being, 72 hotels, strong disdain for, 533 on the house in which he was born, 703 on human weakness, 577 humans admires and criticizes, 12 longing for “unattainable world,” 551 as “wretched apparitions,” 551 illustrated world history, praises, 447 on individual as speck of dust in development of human spirit, 730n intellect, criticizes overestimation of the, 675 intellectual values, held in high esteem by the powerful, 730n Italy, would like to move to for rest of his life, 12