Einstein, Albert.

a reflective and humorous letter prompted by the present of a ruler, thanking her for the nice gift, commenting wryly that earlier his sense of intuition had governed the straightness or crookedness of his productions, noting that she evidently preferred not to place herself in God's hands, observing that one cannot detach oneself from life since one is always held fast by something which one cannot fully grasp let alone master, stating too that he has often thought about her and her uncertain situation, made harder by difficult personal ties, and sending her his cordial wishes for 1952, 1 page, 4to (27.8 x 21.5cm), with a pencil postscript at the foot of the recto in an unidentified hand, some pencil annotations in a third hand to verso, no place, 2 January 1952, light creasing along folds



...Wenn man das ganz in sich aufgenommen hat, so nimmt man das Erlebte weniger tragisch, und es stellt sich jener Galgenhumor ein, der eine Art Rettung ins Unpersönliche darstellt...

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A good late letter by the great physicist, written in 1952, the year he declined the presidency of Israel, and three years before his death.