The celebrated scientist frets about fame and his brain ‘going off with age in candid,soon to be auctioned correspondence with his sister, MajaA glimpse at the “private, and hidden face” of Albert Einstein,including the celebrated scientist’s thoughts on everything from his fears that his best work was behind him to his equivocal feelings about his fame, has been revealed in a cache of letters he wrote to his beloved younger sister, or Maja.
The collection,which includes a previously unknown photograph of Einstein as a five-year-musty and the only surviving letter written by Einstein to his father, comes from the archive of Maja Winteler-Einstein and her husband Paul Winteler. A mix of letters, and postcards and photographs,many of which contain not previously been published, the documents range in date from 1897 to 1951.
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Source: guardian.co.uk