25 October 1938
Dear Nathan,
I’m sending you a letter sent to Leidesdorf, in which you will also find the text of a telegram sent to Guggenheimer. On the basis of earlier letters from Mr. Dukas, the Hutten St. building yields 4,500 fr., whereby the costs of the rooms inhabited by Mrs. Mileva E. and my son are included. The mortgage interest and other disbursements total altogether 8,577 francs. This is according to a statement dated 1936. 
You will surely agree with me that I cannot take charge of the building in such a way as to be held personally liable for every single deficit. This is all the less advisable in view of the threatening eventualities from political quarters. If it works with the trustee, then, at most, the building is gone, but nothing else.— 
It would be good if you telephoned Mr. Leidesdorf sometime, because I already got a painful taste of his slow temperament on earlier occasions.
Cordial regards, 
Yours,
	A. Einstein.
 [TLS. On embossed letterhead: “A. Einstein, 112, Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.”]