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A glimpse at the “private, hidden face” of Albert Einstein, including the celebrated scientist's thoughts on everything from his fears 【小题1】 his best work was behind him to his beloved younger sister, Maja.
The collection, which includes a previously unknown photograph of Einstein as a five-year-old and the only 【小题2】 （survive）letter written by Einstein to his father, comes from the archive（档案）of Maja Winterler-Einstein and her husband Paul Winteler. A mix of letters, postcards and photographs, many of 【小题3】 have not previously been published, range in date from 1897 to 1951.
“What is remarkable about them comes from the fact that he had this incredibly close relationship with his sister. It's quite clear that 【小题4】 he's writing to her, there's no role-playing at all.” said Thomas Venning at Christie's. which will auction（拍卖）the letters soon. “He was very conscious of what 【小题5】 （expect）of him after he became famous, and you don't get any of that in letters to his sister. He says some things that I've never seen him say anywhere else. and I've catalogued many hundreds of his letters.”
In 1924, nine years after he completed the general theory of relativity in 1915. Einstein would write to Maja that “scientifically I haven't achieved much recently-the brain gradually goes oft （停止） 【小题6】 age, though that is not so unpleasant. It also means that you're not so answerable for your later years.” Ten years later, he would write to her: “I am happy in my work, 【小题7】 in this and in other matters I am starting to feel that the brilliance of younger years is past.”
Venning said he had not seen Einstein 【小题8】 （admit）this anywhere else. “It's not him 【小题9】 （play）a role: you can see that thought going through his head, which is true-if Einstein had died in 1916, his fiundamental legacy would have been complete. He carried on working for another 40 years without making any other great breakthrough, so it's just an extraordinary moment which we get because of 【小题10】 close their relationship was. He didn't have to reassure（使安心）her,” he said.
