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

In German, ¾ page, 141 x 90mm.

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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.