Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Three bank statements of the Dresdner Bank, 20 October 1917, 3 November 1917 and 23 January 1918, the first with an autograph note signed (‘Einstein’), the second with two brief autograph annotations.

In German, three pages, approximately 290 x 225mm.

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Apparently unpublished

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Bank transfers to his family in Switzerland during the First World War.

The statement of October 1917 is for a transfer of 1,000 marks to Zurich, presumably for Mileva Einstein: it is annotated and signed ‘This is the extra transfer of 1000 marks, whose receipt is contested. Einstein’. The November statement lists twelve transfers to Switzerland since October 1916, the majority to Zurich, but with two to Lucerne (presumably to Einstein’s sister, Maja), and one to Arosa (where Eduard Einstein had stayed in a sanatorium): Einstein has amended two entries (to exclude the wires to Lucerne), and added an extra line ‘450 marks to Switzerland for Tete [i.e. his younger son Eduard]’. There are further annotations in purple ink and pencil. The statement for January 1918 is for a transfer of 500 marks to Heinrich Zangger.