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DOCS. 630-632 OCTOBER
1918
Selenium
Gas
Color
Vel.
of
Fall•103
cm/sec
Radius
a.106
cm
Photophor.
Veloc.
103
cm/sec
Moving
B•10-7
Photophor.
Force
B
=
B/B.1010
Dyne
Argon
rot 1.53 15.30 11.72
2.42
4.85
Nitrogen
rot
1.91 15.26 14.37
3.05
4.70
Hydrogen
rot
5.16 15.15 38.68 8.09 4.78
631. To
Pauline Einstein
[Berlin,
8
October
1918]
Dear
Mother,
Now
you
had to
get
the
loathsome
flu
as
well. I
hope
it’s
over
with
now.
Margot
also
is
lying
in
bed
with
backache &
fever;
she
probably
has it
as
well.-[1]
I
remind
you
now
of
our
conversation at
Prager Placed[2]
two
years ago,
and
think
about whether
I
hadn’t
seen
correctly
after
all!
And
we’re
not out
of
the
woods
yet.
There
was
nothing
special
to
say
about
myself except
that
my
health
is
good.
The
day
after
tomorrow
I
am
starting
my
lecture
course.[3] I’m producing
nothing
to speak
of at
present,
without
loafing
about
either.
Recently
I
made
the
acquaintance
of
the
chess master
Lasker,
a
small,
fine
little
man
with
a
sharply
cut
profile
and
a
Polish-Jewish, yet genteel
manner.
He
has been world
champion
in chess
playing
for
25
years
and
is
a
mathematician and
philosopher
to
boot.
He
stayed contentedly
seated
until
12
o’clock, even
though
a
great
tournament
awaited him
the
next
day.[4]
Rathenau
was
also
there
and
sparkled
both
in wit
and
eloquence.
The
last
essay
(“Charakter”)
of his
most recent
little work
to
appear
An Deutschlands
Jugend[5] [To
Germany’s
Youth]
is well
worth
reading.
Affectionate
regards
to
all, yours,
Albert.
632.
From Friedrich Adler
Stein-on-the-Danube, 12
October
1918
Dear
Einstein,
Many
thanks
for
your
letter
of 29
September
and
the
postcard
of
the
30th.[1]
I
received
the
postcard
of
3 September
as well,
but
only very
late
because
you
wrote
the
address
very unclearly
and
it
therefore wandered
about
at
other
places.