"To
the scientific researcher, at whose feet I slept and sat for two
full days, as a friendly souvenir," reads the note in his native
German, signed and dated October 1921, which fetched $6,100 at
Winner's Auctions & Exhibitions in Jerusalem.
The auction house said Einstein, then 42 and soon to win the
Nobel Prize, wrote the letter to Elisabetta Piccini, a chemistry
student half his age who lived one floor above his sister, Maja,
in Florence.
During a visit to the city, "Einstein was very interested in
meeting her. However, Elisabetta was introverted and too shy to
meet with such a famous person," Winner's said on its website.
Also sold on Tuesday for $103,000 was a 1928 note in which the
auction house said Einstein outlined ideas for his "Third Stage
of the Theory of Relativity". A 1946 English-language letter of
encouragement that he penned to an American World War Two
veteran who aspired to be a scientist also fetched $6,100.
Last October, Winner's sold another Einstein letter, a 1922
meditation on happiness that he wrote upon learning he had won
the Nobel, for $1.3 million.
(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
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