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Their courtship is familiar to readers of Einstein's early love letters. Over the opposition of his mother, Einstein fell in love with her. She was the only woman studying physics at the institute. Mileva, an ethnic Serb, was four years older than Einstein and walked with a limp. They show the trajectory of Einstein's relationship with Mileva, whom he met when both were students at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute in 1896. Some of the letters, from a happier period in Einstein's life with Mileva, were brought out in the 1990 book ''Albert Einstein-Mileva Maric: The Love Letters'' and as part of the continuing publication of Einstein's papers by Princeton University Press. A number of people close to the proceedings, however, say that a settlement is imminent. His granddaughter Evelyn Einstein, and great-grandson Paul Einstein, descendants of Hans Albert, have sued Paul's brother, Thomas Einstein, and Michael Ferguson, a lawyer, both of whom are former trustees of the Einstein Correspondence Trust, which owns the papers.īoth sides refused to discuss the case, citing a court order barring statements to the press. The letters, discovered in a bank vault in Berkeley, Calif., in 1986, are being sold because of a feud among Einstein's heirs. It is, in effect, a peek over Einstein's shoulder as he wends his way through the mistakes and discoveries that would culminate, in November 1915, in the general theory. Writing in neat, precise figures, and crossing out as he goes along, Einstein tries to calculate an anomaly in the orbit of Mercury around the Sun. The Einstein-Besso manuscript, written in 19, is one of just two known working manuscripts that show Einstein's thought processes as he was developing the general theory of relativity, his crowning glory. It was later sold, reportedly for $3 million, to the banker Edmund Safra, who donated it to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Last spring, a finished version of Einstein's theory of relativity failed to reach the minimum required for sale at a Sotheby's auction in Manhattan. The manuscript, by Einstein and his collaborator, Michele Besso, is the second to go on sale this year. But the letters give a fuller, darker picture of the anguished ending of the marriage. The basic facts of Einstein's first marriage - his courtship of Mileva, whom some scholars have regarded as crucial in the development of his scientific theory, and his disenchantment with her - have been known to biographers. The correspondence, mainly in German, includes few new revelations.
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This collection of Einstein letters, the most important one ever to go on the block, is expected to sell for $2 million and the manuscript for $250,000 to $350,000.
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25, this letter and more than 400 others, most of them never before seen by scholars, will be auctioned at Christie's in New York along with a rare scientific manuscript. You must leave my bedroom or study at once without protesting when I ask you to.'' You will renounce all personal relations with me, except when these are required to keep up social appearances.'' And: ''You will expect no affection from me. You will see to it (1) that my clothes and linen are kept in order, (2) that I am served three regular meals a day in my room. In July 1914, Albert Einstein wrote to his first wife, Mileva Maric, the mother of his two sons, laying down a series of conditions under which he would agree to continue their marriage: The stipulations were as cold and precise as any of his mathematical equations.