![EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ('Ba') to his first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric ('Lieber Schatz'), Bern, 'Good Friday' [17 April 1908], three pages, 4to, on a bifolium.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07046_0099_000(101559).jpg?w=1)
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ('Ba') to his first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric ('Lieber Schatz'), Bern, 'Good Friday' [17 April 1908], three pages, 4to, on a bifolium.
A love letter written while Mileva is visiting relatives with Hans Albert, full of news of research and Einstein's life in Bern. Einstein is working a great deal with [his collaborator Jakob] Laub, plunging immediately on his return from a long walk into a project which explores faults in Minkowski's understanding of ponderomotove forces. He even eats with Laub, although they avoid eating at one particular restaurant since they both became constipated because of the doubtful cooking fat used there. In spite of this, 'I don't like my solitude at all. I'm looking forward with longing to your return' -- though he has solaced his loneliness with two new books, one being O.E. Meyer's kinetic theory of gases, and the other a compendium of masterpieces of comic writing. The letter continues with news of friends mingled with scientific gossip, with the wry aside, 'I'm writing any old how ['Kraut und Rüaben'], but what does it matter? ... The flat is filthy - I must prepare you for that. Laub is a really nice man, though very ambitious ... But he does these calculations for which I can't really find time, and that's good. He also wants to get involved with the confirmation of light quanta'.
Jakob Laub came to Bern from Würzburg for a period of six weeks in 1908 to collaborate with Einstein on two papers in physics (Collected Papers, vol.2, nos 51 and 52).
A love letter written while Mileva is visiting relatives with Hans Albert, full of news of research and Einstein's life in Bern. Einstein is working a great deal with [his collaborator Jakob] Laub, plunging immediately on his return from a long walk into a project which explores faults in Minkowski's understanding of ponderomotove forces. He even eats with Laub, although they avoid eating at one particular restaurant since they both became constipated because of the doubtful cooking fat used there. In spite of this, 'I don't like my solitude at all. I'm looking forward with longing to your return' -- though he has solaced his loneliness with two new books, one being O.E. Meyer's kinetic theory of gases, and the other a compendium of masterpieces of comic writing. The letter continues with news of friends mingled with scientific gossip, with the wry aside, 'I'm writing any old how ['Kraut und Rüaben'], but what does it matter? ... The flat is filthy - I must prepare you for that. Laub is a really nice man, though very ambitious ... But he does these calculations for which I can't really find time, and that's good. He also wants to get involved with the confirmation of light quanta'.
Jakob Laub came to Bern from Würzburg for a period of six weeks in 1908 to collaborate with Einstein on two papers in physics (Collected Papers, vol.2, nos 51 and 52).
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