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The stipulations were as cold and precise as any of his mathematical equations. 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:
''A. 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. B. 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 must leave my bedroom or study at once without protesting when I ask you to.''
On Nov. 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. 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.
The correspondence, mainly in German, includes few new revelations. 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. But the letters give a fuller, darker picture of the anguished ending of the marriage.
And they provide an extraordinary glimpse into Einstein's emotional life. They reveal the domestic side of Einstein, a sometimes tender yet sometimes brutal husband of Mileva, and a devoted yet sometimes unthinking and cruel father to his sons, Hans Albert and Eduard.
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The manuscript, by Einstein and his collaborator, Michele Besso, is the second to go on sale this year. 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. It was later sold, reportedly for $3 million, to the banker Edmund Safra, who donated it to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The Einstein-Besso manuscript, written in 1913 and 1914, 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.
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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. 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.
The letters, discovered in a bank vault in Berkeley, Calif., in 1986, are being sold because of a feud among Einstein's heirs. 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.
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Evelyn and Paul are charging that Thomas and Mr. Ferguson failed to inform them of the trust's existence and held onto the letters rather than selling them and distributing the proceeds. Thomas Einstein, a physician in Los Angeles, has denied the accusations, saying he kept the correspondence with the hope of increasing its value.
Both sides refused to discuss the case, citing a court order barring statements to the press. A number of people close to the proceedings, however, say that a settlement is imminent.
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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.