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96
APRIL
1908 69
How
do
you
like
the
telephone
idea
is
it
worth
a
patent?
and is
it
worth
something
even
if I
don't take
a
patent?
I
think that
one can
achieve
quite strong
sound
effects.
With
cordial
greetings
to
you
and
your
family, your
Paul Habicht
it
occurred
to
me
that
it
is
advantageous
if
the
space
is
small
one
would have to test
to
determine
how much it
can
be
decreased
The idea
is quite
amenable
to
variations
I think
something
will
come
out
of
it.
96.
To
Mileva Einstein-Marie
Bern,
Good
Friday
[17
April
1908][1]
Dear Sweetheart:
I've
just
come
home
from
a
long
walk with
Laub.[2]
I work with him
a
great
deal.
Unless I
am totally
mistaken,
Minkowski's
determination of
ponderomotive
forces
is
wrong.[3]
We
now
derive
the
whole
thing
in
another
way.[4]
Nowadays
I
always
take
my
meals with Laub. We
no longer
eat at Münze because
we
both had
indiges-
tion-probably
because of the
questionable
fat
they
use
there.[5]
I've
been
getting
a
letter
from little
Habicht[6]
at
least
every
other
day,
but
I
don't
always get
around
to
answering
him.
I
don't
like the solitude
at
all,
Laub
nothwithstanding.
I wait
longingly
for
your
return.[7] I
ordered
two
books,
O. E.
Meyer's
Kinetische Theorie der
Gase,[8]
and
Meisterstücke des
Humors,
a
collection of
the
best
classics in this
genre.[9]
I
haven't
yet
talked
with Mrs.
Hausmann.[10]
Pfedi has asked for
your
address.[11] I
was
invited to
Schenk's
yesterday.[12]
He
is
now
courting
me
a
little
because
.
.
.
Nothing
beats
selflessness.
A
capable
man
is
working
in
Würzburg
on
my
method
for
the determina-
tion of
-
.[13]
I
am writing higgledy-piggledy,
but what
does it
matter?
Maybe
in this
way
I'll
bring
it
about that
you'll
more
willingly
let
me
read
your
letters.
The
apartment
is
very dirty
now-I
must
prepare
you
for
that. Laub
is
quite
a
nice
man,
though
very ambitious,
almost
rapacious.
But he
is
doing
these
calculations,
which
I
wouldn't
find time
to do,
and this
is
good.
He
also
wants
to
work
on
confirming the[14]
light
quanta.
Kisses
to
you
and
Bu[15]
from
dear
Ba
Convey my
cordial
greetings
to
Auntie,
Grandpa,
Grandma,
and
Auntie
Watz,
and
also
Uncle,
if he
is
there.