Sex-fuelled love letters from Albert Einstein are being flogged for more than £1 million.
The raunchy memos from the scientist to his first wife have been put on the market and are set to spark a bidding war.
The naughty notes, written in a gothic German font, are addressed to his love Mileva Maric, talking about an upcoming meet in the romantic Lake Como in Italy and tell how he couldn’t wait to “wrap together in his dressing gown”.
It is believed Maric fell pregnant during her subsequent stay with the physicist and gave birth to their daughter Lieserl in early 1902.
In one letter he wrote: “Come to me to Como and bring along my blue dressing-gown, into which we can wrap ourselves.”
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The letters, which also show him speaking about his Nobel Prize winning work to his love, were originally kept in his family until they were sold at auction in 1996, to a private buyer who is now happy to part ways with them.
The auctioneers say that it is “extremely rare” to find Einstein correspondence from before 1905 which reveal so much about his ‘formative’ years.
In one he writes about his work: “My broodings about radiation are starting to get on somewhat firmer ground.
“I am more and more convinced that the electrodynamics of moving bodies, as presented today, is not correct, and that it should be possible to present it in a simpler way.”
Thomas Venning, manuscripts specialist at Christie’s, said: “The letters give you the whole picture on what Albert Einstein was like in his formative years.
“It is very rare to find letters from him pre-1905 and for it to be such significant correspondence, to such a significant recipient, is just wonderful.
“Even though he was just a teenager when he began writing them, you sense that he was already asking questions on different areas of physics.
“He would not just accept previous scientific thought and wanted instead to push the boundaries and challenge conventions.”
Einstein died in 1955 and the sale for the letters takes place on December 11.
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