'Homeless but happy': facing up to the Nazi seizure of power.

Einstein has enjoyed his trip to Pasadena, Chicago and finally New York, where he attended a function to benefit the University of Jerusalem: 'but it was a terribly stressful fuss. Now on board ship we can catch our breath again. We have become real migratory birds, homeless but happy. I consider it possible that the political carnival at home in Germany is of lasting duration, and that I shall never again go there. Today one simply cannot know – everything is unstable, and indeed that is true generally except for mathematics, and even this is unstable too in a particular sense'.

Elsa wrote 20 pages to Maja two months previously: but letters never seem to get through. It is excellent news that Einstein's younger son, Eduard, is staying with Maja: 'There could not possibly be a better place for Tetel to stay'. But Maja must tell him what the expenses are, so he can cover them: a letter will reach him at their uncle Caesar's address in Liege. [In fact, it seems to have been a misunderstanding on Einstein's part that Eduard was staying with Maja – see the following lot].

The long letter by Elsa Einstein discusses family news, and especially Eduard's supposed stay with Maja. Einstein has sent a considerable quantity of money from America to Mileva (his first wife), which should cover Eduard's expenses. He had also written him quite a number of letters – at one stage three in ten days – which all seem to have gone missing.


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