EINSTEIN ALBERT (1879-1955).

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EINSTEIN ALBERT (1879-1955).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Dein Papa », 11 July 1948, to his eldest son Hans Albert EINSTEIN; 1 page and a half, in-4 format; in German. On the upcoming death of Einstein’s first wife Mileva Maric. Letter to his eider son, Hans Albert, discouraging him from visiting his mother on her deathbed. If Hans Albert insists on going to Zurich to see his mother, who is mortally ill after a fall, Einstein will, as promised, fund the trip, although, quite apart from the fact that his financial resources have been hit by both the currency situation and his sister’s expensive illness, he doesn’t like the idea. In part (translated): “If you absolutely want to go to Zurich, I will make it possible for you, as I promised you. I don’t like it though, apart from the fact, that my own financial situation has...deteriorated as a result of the money devaluation and the expensive illness of my sister...It will be a shock if your mother sees you again in this condition—and more so your departure....There are mortgages on the house there (about 55,000 francs), which are in my name, but which morally speaking are your mother’s property...Scandalously, it was impossible to obtain any statement of the proceeds, so that we are not in the position here to calculate and settle the so-called ‘profit tax.’...It is a journalistic sham with political tendencies.” Einstein’s wife, Mileva Maric, was near death as Hans Albert expressed his desire to see his mother one last time. The reluctant Einstein pledges to finance the trip—but makes clear the financial hardship it would place upon him. Though trying to soften the blow by imploring his son to think of his mother and the effect it would have on her to be seen in such a weakened state—and then to cope with his leaving her side—Einstein quickly turns his message to finances, and his concern over existing mortgages. In his post-scriptum, Einstein discusses Eduard, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and th
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