Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Лот 62
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1514527
Лот 62 | Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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£ 4 000 – 5 000
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Autograph letter and typed letter signed ('A' and 'Papa') to his first wife, Mileva Marić, n.p. and Knollwood, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 14 February 1939 and 14 August 1941
In German. One page in autograph and one page typed, 280 x 215mm; one envelope. Provenance: by descent – Christie's 6 June 2007, lot 79.

Financial arrangements to safeguard Mileva's house in Zurich. Mileva had formally transferred the house on Huttenstrasse in Zurich to a company set up by Einstein in order to escape a threatened repossession: 'Regarding the house, we have thoroughly considered everything in case the transfer is contested later. It cost me not only a lot of money but also a lot of time. You will receive nothing more than a kind of employment contract as the property manager'. Once Mileva has settled the mortgage, she should probably send Einstein a cheque for the surplus income, 'so that no one can claim you are still receiving the income and that the whole sale was a scam'. Einstein will send back the money immediately, but to the address of their younger son, Eduard (known as 'Tetel'). 'Once the objection period has expired, this detour will not be necessary anymore. Furthermore, I am ensuring in my will that everything continues correctly even after my death, as long as at least one of you is alive'. In a postscript he adds 'I am so glad Tetel is having a good time. My sister [Maja] is coming in the next few weeks, having been expelled from Italy. I am also completely occupied with helping persecuted relatives and friends'. In the typed letter, two years later, Einstein informs Mileva that they are officially transferring the management of the house to her: 'While it may be true that this step endangers some of the measures taken previously, under the prevailing circumstances it is more appropriate to assume this additional risk than to make further sacrifices that will likely prove futile in the long run'; she will therefore need to keep accounts and submit them to the holding company, the Huttenstrasse Realty Corporation. Einstein ends by expressing delight in their grandson Bernhard ('Hadi'), then aged 11, who 'has grown into a strong young man and makes friends everywhere he goes. He seems to have an energetic disposition and will probably never become a bookworm'.

Mileva had initially bought three houses in Zurich with the prize money from Einstein's Nobel prize, which she received in 1922 as part of their divorce settlement: however by the late 1930s she had been obliged to sell two of the three houses, in part because of costs relating to the care of their son Eduard, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, but the continuing mortgages on the two houses threatened her ownership of the Huttenstrasse house where she lived.

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