- Lot 2
From Ulm to New York City
Ulm, late 19th Century
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 5
The only known letter to his father
Lindau (Germany), 26 September 1897
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 6,000Closed - Lot 7
Playful greetings to his sister
Zurich, 13 January 1898
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 8
Postcards to the Einstein family
Milan and Switzerland, 1898-1901
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 9
Postcards to the young Einstein
Zurich, 1898-1900
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 10
Einstein on the cusp of adulthood
Mettmenstetten (Switzerland), 11 September 1899
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 11
A trip to Venice with his father
Venice, 11 September 1900
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 12
Einstein in the mountains
Urnerboden (Switzerland), 27 July 1901
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 13
On the eve of the annus mirabilis
Berne, 1904
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 14
Portrait of a reluctantly famous scientist
Zurich, c.1919
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 15
'I have laid a marvellous egg'
Berlin, 1 March 1917
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 22,500Closed - Lot 16
Romain Rolland writes to Einstein
Villeneuve (Switzerland), 21 and 23 August 1917
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 17
Taking in his dying mother, and trying to work
Berlin, 10 November 1919
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 18
A room for his terminally-ill mother
Berlin, 23 December 1919
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 19
Coded instructions on a financial matter
Berlin, 3 September 1921
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 2,375Closed - Lot 20
'Man learns only through experience'
Berlin, 6 September 1921
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 21
Travelling 'incognito' to Florence
Berlin, 8 October 1921
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 22
Tired of endless travel
Berlin, 9 December 1921
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 23
'What a work of art the good Lord has made in us'
Berlin, 14 December 1921
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 12,500Closed - Lot 24
'Like living in a pigeon-loft'
Berlin, 17 March 1922
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 25
Europe sinking into misery
Berlin, 23 April 1922
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 26
'People are going a bit crazy ...'
Spandau, nr Berlin, 12 August 1922
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 27
The end of a lovely summer
Berlin, 2 September 1922
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 28
'A wonderful continuation of the general theory of relativity'
Berlin, 15 April 1923
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 27,500Closed - Lot 29
'Invention is the privilege of youth'
Berlin, 27 March 1924
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 30
'The scientific demon makes a fool of me'
Berlin, late April 1924
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 31
An 'easy-going monastic' life
Kiel, 20 May 1924
EstimateGBP 1,400 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 2,250Closed - Lot 32
'Please, no cult of personality'
Berlin, 28 August 1924
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 10,000Closed - Lot 33
'I can earn it more easily than you'
Lucerne, 1 October 1924
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 2,125Closed - Lot 34
'Possibly it is better not to think too much'
Berlin, 4 October 1924
EstimateGBP 1,400 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed - Lot 35
'I have to drag along a heavy load'
Berlin, early 1925
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 36
Remembering 'the storm surge of relativity'
Berlin, 12 July 1925
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 37
A summer of sailing and music-making
Berlin, 14 September 1925
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 38
His favourite books: Don Quixote and the Bible
Berlin, 15 March 1926
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 35,000Closed - Lot 39
The nervous turmoil of his life
Berlin, 3 February 1928
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 40
A summer holiday with his sister
Scharbeutz-bei-Lübeck, 13 September 1928
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 41
The beauty of his new theory
Berlin, 14 March 1929
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 42
'A wonderful thing, which completes my life's work'
Berlin, late March 1929
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 43
'My new theory is finished'
Berlin, 24 March 1929
EstimateGBP 1,400 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 12,500Closed - Lot 44
'My new theory now stands formally perfect'
Zurich, 10 August 1929
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 6,875Closed - Lot 45
A scientific discovery and his new country refuge
Caputh, nr Berlin, 19 August 1929
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 46
A birthday call to Thomas Edison
Berlin, 18 October 1929
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 15,000Closed - Lot 47
'My decrepit ego'
Berlin, 18 November 1929
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,200Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 49
'The collective is a nasty animal'
Berlin, 2 March 1930
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 9,375Closed - Lot 50
His incompetence at housework
Berlin, 10 August 1930
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,200Price realisedGBP 2,250Closed - Lot 51
'Playing the part of the good Lord or his assistant'
Pasadena, 7 February 1931
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 15,000Closed - Lot 52
'The downside of success'
At sea on SS Deutschland, early March 1931
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 53
'I have developed into a migratory bird'
Antwerp, 2 December 1931
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 54
'The mathematical correlation of gravitation and electricity'
Los Angeles, 9 January 1933
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 12,500Closed - Lot 55
'Homeless but happy'
At sea, SS Belgenland, 21 March 1933
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 56
'Looking for a hide-out for the summer'
On board SS Belgenland, 28 March 1933
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 1,625Closed - Lot 57
'The only unshakeable things are the stars and mathematics'
England, September 1933
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 18,750Closed - Lot 58
'The brilliance of younger years is past'
Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 9 July 1934
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 59
'Part of the foundations of our science'
Old Lyme, Connecticut, 31 August 1935
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 60EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 13,750Closed
- Lot 61
'A difficult but uncommonly important piece of work'
Saranac Lake, New York, summer 1936
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 62
Science is 'the most satisfying thing in life'
Princeton, 1936
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 6,000Closed - Lot 63
The last illness of Elsa Einstein
Princeton, 16 November 1936
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 64
'The nightmare of her suffering still hangs over us'
Princeton, 5 January 1937
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 65
Working, sailing – and a visit from a girlfriend
Huntington, Long Island, 27 June 1937
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 66
'A personal world into which one can retreat'
Princeton, autumn 1937
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 67
'On the track of the riddle of electricity'
Peconic, Long Island, June 1938
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 68
'Scientifically I am having a wonderful time'
Peconic, Long Island, 30 June 1938
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 6,000Closed - Lot 70
Coded advice on emigration
Princeton, 17 September 1938
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,200Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 71
His efforts as a 'walking relief-committee'
Princeton, 14 December 1938
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 73
Maja's physical decline
Princeton, 18 March 1946
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 74
The possibility of Maja's return
Princeton, June 1946
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,200Price realisedGBP 2,250Closed - Lot 75
Maja's deteriorating health
Princeton, June 1946
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 3,000Closed - Lot 76
An unlucky accident
Princeton, 31 July 1946
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 77
The death of his beloved sister
Princeton, 27 June 1951
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed