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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Forty-three autograph letters signed ("Albert Einstein," "Albert," "Johonnesl," "Johonzel," "Albert Johonzel", etc.), to Mileva Maric, various places (Zurich, Milan, Schaffhausen, Bern, Winterthur, etc.), 16 February 1898 - 19(?) September 1903. Together 149 pages, 12mo and 8vo, all but 4 written in ink on various papers including squared scientific notepaper, a portion of the recto and the entire verso of letter 3 containing equations and diagrams, letter 5 on a leaf from a notebook with English exercises in Mileva's hand and a pencilled note in Serbian in the hand of Mileva's friend Milana Bota, letter 21 incorporating a small ink drawing of the sole of a foot, letter 33 written on verso of a blank invoice (headed "Rechnung"), letter 49 incorporating a small, neatly drawn, keyed diagram of Einstein's furnished room in Bern, with three original envelopes addressed by Einstein ("Fraülein Mileva Maric"), the envelope for letter 8 bearing on its verso brief notes from Einstein's mother, Pauline, and Einstein's sister, Maja. [ With :] MARIC, MILEVA. Ten autograph letters signed ("D," "Doxerl," "Dockerl," "Dock," "Toxerline," and "Weiberl") to Albert Einstein, various places (Heidelberg, Kac, Zurich and Stein am Rhein), 20 October 1897 - 28 November 1901. Together 29¼ pages, 24mo, 12mo and 8vo all written in ink on various papers including squared scientific notepaper, letter 42 on yellow notepaper with address panel in Einstein's hand, stamped and postmarked . [ With :] Partly printed document, Zurich, 28 April 1897, 1 page, 4to, accomplished in manuscript, lightly browned, with purple stamp certifying that the matter had been settled , directing Albert Einstein to register with the Swiss authorities. [ With :] ALBERT EINSTEIN and MILEVA MARIC. Printed announcement of their marriage, Bern, [c. 6 January 1903]. The message reads: "Albert Einstein Mileva Maric are pleased to announce to you their marriage which is taking place on January 6, 1903." Beneath, their address is given as "Bern, Tillierstrasse 18." When the eighteen-year-old Albert Einstein (1879-1955) entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich in 1896, one of his classmates was a young Serbian woman, Mileva Maric (1875-1948). Einstein and Mileva studied together, became friends, then lovers, and married in 1903 soon after Einstein had taken up an appointment in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. Their correspondence began in the autumn of 1897, when Mileva spent a semester in Heidelberg, and continued with notes in Zurich and letters exchanged during vacations. The surviving letters -- 43 from Einstein, 10 from Mileva -- document the progress of their love affair and offer the only known evidence for the birth in 1902 of their illegitimate daughter Lieserl. $SThe correspondence also provides primary evidence for the intellectual formation of the young Albert Einstein and for his scientific thinking in the years preceding the publication of his three great papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and the special theory of relativity in 1905. The Young Albert Einstein In 1897 Einstein was 18 years old. Born in Ulm, Germany, he had grown up in Munich. His father, Hermann Einstein, owned a series of unsuccessful small businesses. In 1894 Einstein's parents moved to Italy to open a business there, and although Albert was left behind in Munich to finish his education, he soon dropped out of the Luitpold Gymnasium to join his parents in Pavia. In the fall of 1895 he took the entrance examination for the Zurich Polytechnic, which he failed, but he scored well in mathematics and physics. After a year at the cantonal high school in Aarau, Switzerland, he was admitted to the Polytechnic in the autumn of 1896, when he took up residence in Zurich. In April 1897 Einstein still had not registered with the Zurich authorities, in violation of the law, and an official notice was issued requiring him to pay a fine of 10 francs on pain of imp