DOCS.
135,
136
NOVEMBER
1915
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135. From Mileva Einstein-Maric
Zurich, 5
November
1915
Dear
Albert,
I have received
the
life
insurance
money
and have
paid
it out.
I
would also
like to turn
your
attention
to
a
few
things:
Wouldn’t
you prefer
to write
your
communications to
little Albert
on
postcards,
at least
some
of them,
since
it
seems
to
me
that
longer
letters
are
subject
to
longer
delays
along
the
way
than
postcards.
Some of
my acquaintances
have also made this observation.
I
am
writing
this
because
I
find
that
long
intervals
like
this first
one
before
your
first
letter
arrived
are more
liable
to
aggravate
bitterness
in
the
child,
and
I
would
like to
spare
him
this
and
hope
that this
is
your
wish too. In
addition, I’d
also
like
to
request
that
matters
relating to
the
children
first
be
arranged
with
me.
If
you
were
also
to
inform
me
in
good
time
of
your
particular
wishes and
opinions,
then
a
way
could
surely always
be found
to
address
them,
even
if they
couldn’t
be carried out in
the
form
presented by
you.
Also
believe
me
that
if
Albert had
the
feeling
that what
is
being
demanded
of
him
is
done with
the
consent of
both
parents,
he would much
sooner
succeed in
calmly appreciating
you
than
if
he has
the
feeling
that
you
were
working
as an
enemy
of this
little
world
I
have
built
up
here for
the
children in which
they
are
living
and which
they love. I
remember
so
well
how much
you
used
to love
this
little Albert
and consider
it
impossible
that
you
would
not
want to
help
me remove
bitterness
from his
life,
and not increase
it.
Miza.
136. To
David Hilbert
[Berlin,]
Sunday.
[7
November
1915][1]
Highly
esteemed
Colleague,
With
return
post
I
am
sending
you
the
correction
to
a
paper
in which
I
changed
the
gravitation
equations,[2]
after
having myself
noticed
about
4
weeks
ago
that
my
method
of
proof was
a
fallacious
one.[3]
My colleague
Sommerfeld wrote
that
you
also have found
a
hair
in
my soup
that
has
spoiled
it
entirely
for
you.[4]
I
am
curious
whether
you
will
take
kindly
to this
new
solution.
With
cordial
greetings,
yours,
A.
Einstein.
When
may
I expect
the
mechanics and
history
week to
take
place
in
Göttingen?
I
am
looking
forward to
it
very
much.