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Pauli thanks Einstein for the proofs of his paper (written by Einstein with Ehrenfest) concerning the elementary processes in which several quanta are simultaneously absorbed or emitted. Pauli shows that there exists an analogue for such processes in classical theory.

Pauli thanks Einstein for the proofs of his paper on "Fernparallellismus". Pauli remarks that from the viewpoint of quantum theory nothing can be said in favour of this new concept. He further criticizes the derivation of Einstein's field equations and their results which have lost contact with physical reality. He is ready to bet that in a year Einstein will drop the whole "Fernparallelismus".

Pauli thanks Einstein for the proofs of the paper he has written with Mayer and he expreses the greatest doubts as to the physical valididity of its basic idea, to describe two particles with different masses by a wave-function in an ordinary space-time continuum.

Pauli asks Einstein to help F Kottler who, as a jew, had to leave Austria and is looking for a job abroad. He also makes some remarks on Einstein's paper on a closed five-dimensional continuum. He also hopes that Bargmann will be of some help to Einstein.

Pauli writes about his decision to remain in Zurich. For the USA he forsees, in about five years, the danger of increasing interference by the military authorities in physical research. As regards Einstein's field equations, he does not believe that the classical field thery can yield any new results. One has to wait for a new generation of young physicists. He also writes of Bertrand Russel's lectures in Zurich.

Pauli thanks Einstein for his manuscript "Quantum mechanics and reality" printed in Dialectica. He explains the difference between his own attitude to physics and Einstein's. Pauli believes that the description of reality as it is given by quantum mecahnics is complete.

Pauli congratulates Einstein on his 70th birthday. He remembers gratefully Einstein's address in Princeton 1945 after Pauli received the Nobel Prize. He also writes of his forthcoming contribution to the Einstein volume in the Living Philosophers".

Pauli would welcome a new assistant. He makes some remarks on breit, Bloch and his physics.

Pauli refers briefly in this postcard to a paper written by Fock (in: Z. Phys. : 57 (1929),pp.261), to the "Fernparallelismus" of Einstein in which he does not believe, to a relation made by Fürth connecting radii and masses of electron and proton with c and h.

Pauli announces his visit in Leiden and asks Ehrenfest to read his last paper on the H-theorem in order to discuss it with him.