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EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed ('Papa') to his son Eduard ('Mein lieber Tetel'), 'Villa Michahelles, Scharbeuz bei Tinnendorfer-Strand', n.d. [1929], 2 pages, 8vo.
The beauties of the intellectual life, Rabelais, and a new idea on gravitation and electricity. Einstein writes from a rest-cure on the Baltic coast, praising Eduard's detachment as an 'uninvolved bystander with a roguish point of view. I don't think I was as young as you when I myself reached this satisfactory point of view'. A month previously, whilst in bed [presumably with heart trouble], Einstein had written a very interesting work on the relationship between gravitation and electricity: 'Wenn es ebenso wahr wie schön ist, dann kann ich zufrieden sein' (if it is as true as it is beautiful, I can be happy). Einstein remains convinced that observation and understanding are the most beautiful things in life, although he grants a place for the incidental pleasures of life ('vivat Epikuros'). He is reading Rabelais' Gargantua with Toni [Mendel], 'so ausgezeichnet und übermütig' (so excellent and boisterous); and observes that he much prefers the flat Baltic landscape to mountains.
Toni Mendel was an elegant widow and close friend of Einstein's from many years from 1925 onwards; there was considerable speculation as the exact nature of their relationship.
The beauties of the intellectual life, Rabelais, and a new idea on gravitation and electricity. Einstein writes from a rest-cure on the Baltic coast, praising Eduard's detachment as an 'uninvolved bystander with a roguish point of view. I don't think I was as young as you when I myself reached this satisfactory point of view'. A month previously, whilst in bed [presumably with heart trouble], Einstein had written a very interesting work on the relationship between gravitation and electricity: 'Wenn es ebenso wahr wie schön ist, dann kann ich zufrieden sein' (if it is as true as it is beautiful, I can be happy). Einstein remains convinced that observation and understanding are the most beautiful things in life, although he grants a place for the incidental pleasures of life ('vivat Epikuros'). He is reading Rabelais' Gargantua with Toni [Mendel], 'so ausgezeichnet und übermütig' (so excellent and boisterous); and observes that he much prefers the flat Baltic landscape to mountains.
Toni Mendel was an elegant widow and close friend of Einstein's from many years from 1925 onwards; there was considerable speculation as the exact nature of their relationship.
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