'The grass has now grown over this little affair'

'The grass has now grown over this little affair'
Albert Einstein. 2 September 1925
Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

Autograph correspondence card signed ('A. Einstein') to Albert Cohen, [postmarked Berlin, 2 September 1929].

In German, half page, 141 x 90mm; addressed in autograph to Cohen at 3 rue de Grenelle in Paris.

A brief message to the Swiss author Albert Cohen. Happiness that an incident has blown over: 'I was absolutely delighted by your letter, and all the more so now, as the necessary grass has now grown over this little affair'. He ends with best wishes for Cohen's 'project'.

Albert Cohen (1895-1981) was at this date a diplomat in the Swiss service (Einstein writes to him at the address of the Swiss legation in Paris). In 1925 he was the editor of the short-lived Revue Juive, on whose board Einstein served, and this is most likely the context of the transitory 'affair' referred to in this postcard. Cohen was later to be the author of a celebrated series of autobiographical novels in French, most notably Belle du Seigneur (1968).