DOCS.
433,
434
MARCH
1913 331
433.
To
Maurice
Solovine
Hoffstr.
116.
Zurich
[16-22 March
1913][1]
Dear
Solovine,
I'm
very glad
that
we'll be
bumming
around
together
in Paris.
If
only
there weren't
that damned
lecture,[2]
which
I-horribile dictu-will
have
to
deliver in
French.
With
best
wishes,
your
Einstein
434. To
Elsa Löwenthal
[Zurich, 23
March
1913][1]
Dear
Elsa,
I heard, to
my
great
delight,
that
you
gave a
very
successful recitation.[2]
I
congratulate
you
with all
my
heart
on
this
success,
which must
surely give you some
satisfaction.
I have
just sent
a
postcard
to
my
former
laboratory
technician in
Prague[3]
asking
him
to
reclaim from the
Prague photographer Langhans
the
photographs
that he
still
owes
me.[4]
I
instructed
him
to
send
you
2
of
them,
which
you
have also
not
received. This
matter
seems
to be
under
an
evil
spell.
I must
leave
tomorrow for Paris
to
give
a
lecture
in
French
(!)
at
the
Sorbonne.[5]
Isn't that
daring?
So
please keep
your
fingers
crossed
for
me on
Thursday
morning,
because that
is
when the
miracle will
take
place.
I
worked
more
strenuously during
the
past
half
year
than
ever
before
in
my
life,
and
I
finally
solved
the
problem
a
few weeks
ago.
It
is
a
bold
extension of the
theory
of
relativity,
together
with
a
theory
of
gravitation.[6]
Now
I
must permit
myself
some
rest,
otherwise I'll
go
kaput
before
long.
What
I
wouldn't
give
to
be able
to
spend
a
few
days
with
you,
but without
...
my
cross![7]
Will
you
be
away
all
of
(August
until
the
beginning
of
October)?
If
not,
then
I
would like
to
come
for
a
short
visit.[8]
At that
time
my colleagues
will not be
there,
so
we
would be
undisturbed.
With
cordial
greetings
to
you,
Uncle
&
Aunt,[9] your
Albert