DOCS.
570,
571
JUNE
1918 597
unfortunately
no
longer
in
a
position
to
see
to
the
matter.
I
beg you
to
settle the
affair.
It
is
urgent
because Mrs. Nordstrom[3]
is
expecting
to
give
birth
to her
child
soon,
and
this,
if
possible,
in Holland.
Wishing you
and
your
little
company pleasant
days,[4]
yours,
Einstein
I
hope
the
40
M,
which
I
sent in
a
normal
letter,
have arrived.
571. To
Heinrich
Zangger
[Berlin,]
24
June
[1918][1]
Dear friend
Zangger,
Now nothing will
come
of
my
trip to
Switzerland after
all,
as
sorry
as
I
am
about
it.
Although my
health
is
reasonably good,
I
shrink from the
long
trip
and
other
difficulties
attached
to it. The
day
after tomorrow
I
am
going
with Elsa
and
her children to
a
little
village by
the
Baltic Sea
for
ca.
7
weeks
(Aarenshoop,
not far from
Stralsund). You
are now
in
the
fortunate
position
of
having
to look
for
a
successor
to
Sauerbruch.[2]
I
humbly
turn
your
attention
to
a man
here of
approximately
our age,
whom
I
have
come
to know and value
(also as a person)
and
who
is
looked
upon
as one
of
the best
young
local
surgeons[3]
but
who also
supposedly
works
successfully
in other
fields
of medicine besides. This modest
comment
ought
not
to
be
interpreted
as
meddling.
Life
goes
on
in
quiet occupation
without
any special
great
new
goals, only
what
developments
draw
along
with them
of
their
own
accord.
But for
it,
I
have
more
peace
to appreciate
the
ideas
of
others.
I
am
painstakingly avoiding
reading
the
newspaper
and
have
few
dealings
with
people.
In
1916
W. Kossel
published
in
the
Annalen der
Physik
a
comprehensive
arti-
cle
“Uber
Molekülbildung
als
Frage
des Atombaues”
[“On
Molecule Formation
as
a
Problem of Atomic
Structure”],
an
almost
exclusively
qualitative
paper,
which
I
consider
very
lucid.[4]
The
author
reported
on
it
recently
at
our colloquium.[5]
This
you
should not
miss,
but
read
it,[6]
preferably
with Besso. Have
a good
rest
during
the
holidays; you
must need it
very
much after all
that
has
happened![7]
We
don’t want to die
without
first
seeing
what
the
world’s
new
state
of
equilibrium
will look like!
If
Weyl
also leaves Zurich
now, no
professor
of
theoretical
physics
will
be left
there.[8]
Then
one
ought
to
think
also
of
Ratnowsky.[9]
He is
suited at least to
the
extent
that
he deserves
a
steady
position
at
the
university.
His
idea,
which
Guye
...
[stole]
from
him,[10]
was
certainly
fine,
and
besides,
he
frequently produces
more or
less
original
ideas.[11]
Before
casting
him
completely aside,
one
should