Name: A postcard from Bologna
Brand: Bologna, 26 October 1921
Price: 4000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Autograph picture postcard signed (‘Albert’) to Michele Besso, [postmarked Bologna, 26 October 1921].

In German, half page, 14 x 88mm. The recto bearing a photograph of the Bologna skyline.

Please note this is the property of a private consignor.

Published in Pierre Speziali (ed.) Albert Einstein. Michele Besso. Correspondance 1903-1955. Paris: Hermann, 1972. No. 60

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Travel plans: returning from Italy through Switzerland.

Einstein hopes to be able to meet up with Besso during his journey through Switzerland: 'I arrive in Zurich on Saturday (29th) and must travel onwards on the 2nd, so as to be in Leiden on the 4th. Send a suggestion to Miza's address [i.e. Mileva Einstein] about how we can meet. My boys won't be happy to let me leave; could you perhaps come to Zurich?'.

It is apparent from this postcard that Einstein's relations with his first wife, Mileva, had regained a degree of cordiality some two years after their divorce.