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valuable to
me.
Your
amicability
gives me
the
courage
to
bring
this
up,
the
more
so
since months
ago you
sent
me
away
with
the
promise
of
allowing
me
another
visit to
your
flat.
May
I
therefore deliver
my
other
book,
which has
just
appeared,[2] personally
with the
prospect
of
a
brief
meeting?
In
this
case,
I
request,
most
respectfully,
notification
by you
of
the
appoint-
ment time
by telephone.
Otherwise,
I
would
permit
myself
to send
you
this
book
in
the
mail,
like
the
previous
one.
Regardless
of
what
happens,
I
would
like
to continue
the
“cult”;
for
you
it
is
secondary,
for
me
it
is
of
paramount importance
in
life.[3] Additionally,
I
have
the
encouraging feeling
that,
with
my
modest
writing abilities,
I
may
also
serve
the
cause once
in
a
while.
In
expressing my
greatest admiration,
I
am
truly
and
devotedly
yours,
Alexander Moszkowski
5
Fasanen
St.
Telephone:
Steinplatz
office,
No. 10185.
293. To
Willem
de Sitter
[Berlin,]
2
February 1917
Dear
Colleague,
You
will
receive
the
requested paper simultaneously
with
this
postcard;
I
am
very
happy
that
you
have taken
an
interest in it. The
P[otsdam]
appointment
affair
has
come
to
a
standstill,
which
seems very suspicious
to
me.
An
intrigue
must be at
play.[1]
I
shall
naturally
hear
nothing
about it
until
it
is
too
late.
Presently I
am
writing
a
paper
on
the
boundary
conditions in
gravitation
theory.[2]
I
have
completely
abandoned
my
idea
on
the
degeneration
of the
guv's,
which
you
rightly disputed.[3]
I
am
curious
to
see
what
you
will
say
about the rather
outlandish
conception
I
have
now
set
my
sights
on.[4]
With
cordial
greetings, yours,
A.
Einstein.