196
DOCS.
274, 275
AUGUST
1911
Many
thanks
to
you
and
your
wife for
the
congratulations,
which also
gave
Emmchen
great pleasure,
and
many greetings
to
both
of
you.
With
best
wishes
to
you
and
the
children,
yours as always,
Alfred Stern
Our
daughters
who
are
here
with
us
send their
greetings
too.
You did
not
give us your
exact Prague address.[7]
Dear
Mrs.,
dear
Mr.
Einstein,
While
we are
still not
done
with
missing you,
we are
glad
to
see
from
your
letter that
you
have
built
a
pleasant
new
life for
yourselves,
which
you
will
surely
make
more
and
more
comfortable
with
the
passage
of
time.
God
knows
what
new
dialects
the
little
bears
(Albertli
should
not
be
angry
that
we
still call him
that)
are
going
to adopt
under these
circumstances,
and how
quickly
the
good
Züridütsch
will
fade into
oblivion!
We
are sure
to have
you
show
up
in the
fall,
are we
not,
dear
Mr.
Einstein?
I
firmly
hope
so
and
am looking
forward
to
it.
You
will
then
have
to
tell
us
everything,
and
you
will also
get
an
earful
from
us.
Cordially,
your
Clara Stern
275.
To Jakob
Laub
Prague,
10
August
1911
Dear
Mr.
Laub,
I
hasten
to
answer your
letter because
the business
of
your
appointment is
pressing.[1]
I
absolutely
agree
with
you
that
a
proper
experimental
physicist
should be
appointed
to
the
position, so
that
Krüger[2]
and Einstein
should
not
be
considered.
Königsberger,
Edgar
Meyer,
and
Regener[3]
are
surely among
the
best
young physicists
in
Germany.
Each of
them would
undeniably
be excellent.
I cannot
evaluate
Harms,[4]
or
Leithäuser,[5]
for
that
matter.
I
don't think
too
highly
of
Gans[6]
in
comparison
with
those mentioned
above. Provided that Harms
is
really
as
good
as
the other
two
proposed
candidates
(E.
M.
and
Königsb.),
I
totally
agree
with
your
recommendation.
Strict confidence
goes
without
saying,
also the
other
way
around,
concerning
this
communication!
I
am very glad
that
you
brought
it off
so
well in
every
respect,
especially
regarding
the
students.
Prague
cannot
compare
in
this
respect.
The students
are
not
very
keen
on
the
subject,
the institute
for
experimental
physics
is
extremely
modest,[7]
and there
is
no
real
dash in
the
whole business.
I work
very eagerly,
but without
much
success.
Almost all
of the ideas that
come
to
my
mind have to be
discarded
again.
The
question
of
ponderomotive
forces has
now
become
completely
clear
to
me.
Abraham
is
right
in the
case
when
e
=
const.
and
fx
=