712
DOCS.
674,
675
DECEMBER
1918
674. To
Heinrich Mousson
[Berlin,]
17
December
1918
To
the Director
of
the
System
of Education
for
the Canton
of Zurich.
With
reference to
your
letter
of
the
12th of
this
month,[1]
I declare
herewith
that
I
gladly accept
the
teaching assignment kindly
offered
to
me.
If
you
and the
university agree,
I
shall be in Zurich
on 1
Feb. 1919
and
then
begin
the
lectures
immediately.
(3
two-hour lectures
per
week.)
Unless
I
receive
specific suggestions
on
the
subjects I
should be
treating,
I
shall
lecture
on
relativity
theory.
My
idea of
arranging
regular
lectures in Zurich
stems
from
the
wish to show
my
gratitude
toward
my
fellow
citizens for
the
honorable call
they
issued to
me
last
summer.[2]
In
accordance with this
motive,
I
would have liked to
give
the
lectures
completely
gratis,
had
I been
in the
position
to do
so;
however,
the
more
difficult circumstances created
by
the
war
necessitate
me
to have
my
extra
expenses
reimbursed.
I
therefore
suggest
to
you
that
for
the
cycle
I
be
given
a
travel and
accommodation allowance of
Fr.
1
200.[3]
In
great respect.
It
is
my
great
pleasure,
thanks
to
your
kind
cooperation,
to
be able to take
part
again
in
the
intellectual
life
at
our
university.
675. To
Fritz Haber
Dahlem, Berlin, [before
20
December
1918][1]
Dear
Haber,
I
come
with
a
small
request
for
the
German
Phys. Society.
We have
decided,
despite
the
present
difficult
circumstances,
to
attempt
nevertheless
to
scrape
to-
gether
a
fund
from relevant industries in
support
of academic
physics
instruction
(laboratories).[2]
Scheel[3]
and
I
are
supposed
to take
care
of
the
matter.
Every-
thing
is
ready
to be sent out.
But
now
it
also
occurs
to
us
that
if
our
appeal
does not arrive in
the hands
of
the
right persons, our glory
will
definitely
find
its
way
unread into the
various wastepaper
baskets.
But there
we
lack
information
about the
important
leading
individuals
at
the
firms to whom
we
could turn.
(We
would
like
to
call
on
the
accessible
ones personally
as well.)
In
this
predicament
we
beg
you
to
look
through
the enclosed lists and
to
give us
tips
with
regard
to
the
addresses. Please send the
lists-with
your
emendations-to
Mr.
Scheel.
Cordial
regards, yours,
A.
Einstein