536
DOC.
515 APRIL
1918
behaved
on
beginning
school.[1] I
received
a
negative
reply
from
the
Culture
Ministry,
which
is nonetheless favorable to
the
extent
that
they
are
otherwise
willing
to be of
assistance,
although along
a
different
route.[2]
I
have
come
to
the
conclusion
that,
with
the
planned course, you
all
are
not
sufficiently provided
for
if I
do
not
receive
the
Nobel
Prize. I’ve found
ways
and
means
to make
the
following possible:
1)
About
40 000 M
in securities
will
be
deposited
at
a
Swiss bank.[3]
In
the
case
of
a
divorce, they
will become
your property
with
right
of
disposal
of
the
interest,
but without
authority
over
the
disposal
of
the
principal.
2)
In
addition, 20 000 M
will be held in
deposit
at
a
bank
here
with
the instruction
that
you
receive
the interest
after
my
death,
in
case
I
do not receive
the
Nobel
Prize.[4]
Based
on my inquiries,
it
will
be
possible
after
all,
with
the
help
of
the
Ministry
of
Culture,
to
transfer the
40 000 M
to Switzerland.[5]
3)
In
the
event
I
receive
the
Nobel
Prize,
it
belongs
to
you (without
authority
over
the
principal),
less
40 000 M.[6]
4)
During my lifetime,
I’ll
send
you, quarterly, enough
so
that the
remittances, to-
gether
with the
interest
indicated under
(1)
of the
capital
deposited
in Switzer-
land,
amount
to
Fr.
8 000.
Thus
it
will
be
guaranteed
that
you
all
will not
become
destitute,
even
if
I
die
in the immediate future.
I
hope
that this
plan
will
be final
at
last. Inform Dr.
Zürcher[7] of
this
letter,
but
request
that
he wait still
with the
definitive formulation
until
its
executability
is
secured. You
then
just
need to send
me one copy,
because
we
can
transcribe
it
here.
I’m
coming
to Switzerland
in
July,
if
possible,
to
take
the
boys
with
me
into
the
mountains;
I’ll
visit
you
all
then
in Zurich.
Best
regards
to
the three of
you, yours,
Albert.
I’ve
been
so
occupied
now
with
the
conditions
following
my
death that
it
seems
quite
odd to
me
that
I
am
still
alive.
[6]Recipient’s
emendation:
“and will be
depos[ited]
in
Switz[erland].”