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A stop in Berne on the way to Japan

Berlin, 26 September 1922

    Price Realised USD 2,750
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    A stop in Berne on the way to Japan

    Berlin, 26 September 1922

    Price Realised USD 2,750
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    Price Realised USD 2,750
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    Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Autograph correspondence card signed (‘Albert’) to Michele Besso, [Berlin], 26 September 1922.

    In German, ¾ page, 141 x 90mm.

    Please note this lot is the property of a private consignor.
    Literature
    Published in Pierre Speziali (ed.) Albert Einstein. Michele Besso. Correspondance 1903-1955. Paris: Hermann, 1972. No. 66
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    A stop in Berne on the way to Japan.

    'On around 3 or 4 October I will visit you in Berne en route to Japan. Then we can discuss everything that I – wretch that I am – did not answer you about in writing'. A postscript notes that he has seen their mutual friend Heinrich Zangger, who is in Berlin.

    Einstein had always been a somewhat dilatory correspondent, but this had worsened to the extent that Besso was beginning to wonder if his own letters had got lost in the post.
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