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OCTOBER
1916 255
myself
the father
of
the
child,”
then
I
must
come
to
this conclusion
You
want
to
coerce me
into
this
by stressing
your
official
capacity
and react
by
taking
the
appropriate steps.
I
am
fed
up
with
continuing
to suffer
injury.
Respectfully.
267. To
Wilhelm
Wien
[Berlin,]
17
October
1916
Highly
esteemed
Colleague,
Enclosed
you
will
find
a
reply
to
a
critical
paper
appearing
in
the
Annalen
by
Kottler
with the
request
that
it be included in the
Annalen.[1]
On
the other
hand, I
am
not
going
to
respond
to Gehrcke’s tasteless and
superficial
attacks,
because
any
informed reader
can
do this
himself.[2]
With
kind
regards
and
best wishes
for
the
new
semester, yours truly,
A. Einstein.
268. To Paul and Tatiana
Ehrenfest
[Berlin,]
18
October
1916
Dear
(P
+ T),
The
reinvigorating
days spent
with
you
have melted into
a
beautiful
dream
which
I
relive
tirelessly
in
my imagination.[1]
Now I
am
sitting
in
my room
and
am
battling
with
letters and
papers
that
had been
piling up, lying
in wait for
me
upon my
return. Now
it has been cleared
up
a
bit.
I
have
already
written
a
reply
to
Kottler
(Annalen
critique).[2]
I
have
not
yet spoken
with
Rotten,[3]
nor
with
any
of
the
players
of
the
chorale for
93.[4]
Bach’s
are finer;
in
you
I
see
developing
a new
admirer
of these
magnificent things.[5]
T also
Will join, despite
the
alarming
straightness
of her intellectual world line
(exception
to
the law of
motion?).
Affectionate
greetings
also to
the
three
little
ones, yours,
A.
Einstein.
Tell de Haas
about the
magnetic experiment.
He
may
be interested in
it.[6]