Zurich, 1 November 1930

Name: Returning to Zurich
Brand: Zurich, 1 November 1930
Price: 3000.00 USD
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Returning to Zurich

Zurich, 1 November 1930

Price Realised USD 3,750

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Autograph correspondence card signed (‘Albert’) to Michele Besso, [postmarked Zurich, 1 November 1930].

In German, 1½ pages, 147 x 104mm.

Please note this lot is the property of a private consignor.

Published in Pierre Speziali (ed.) Albert Einstein. Michele Besso. Correspondance 1903-1955. Paris: Hermann, 1972. No. 105.1

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Returning to Zurich for an honorary doctorate.

Einstein has returned directly to Zurich, as he was tired from the Solvay Congress in Brussels and subsequently a visit to London (where he was notably toasted by George Bernard Shaw during a banquet in his honour): ‘But I would be very happy if you could come for a bit, perhaps out of affection for your alma mater [the Zurich Polytechnic, where Einstein was being given an honorary doctorate at a ceremony to celebrate its 75 years] or even beforehand’. He is initially living at the address of Frau Karr, ‘later perhaps at my ex-wife’s (später vielleicht bei der Verflossenen)’.