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Two notes have surfaced after 95 years and is up for auction(拍卖) in Jerusalem, Palestine. The notes are given to a postman in Tokyo by Albert Einstein. They briefly describe Einstein’s theory on happy living.

The year was 1922, and the German-born physicist, most famous for his theory of relativity, was on a lecture tour in Japan. He had recently been told that he was to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics, and his fame outside of scientific circles was growing. A Japanese postman arrived at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo to send a message to Einstein. The postman either refused to accept a tip, in line with local practice, or Einstein had no small change at that time.

Einstein didn't want the postman to leave empty-handed, so he wrote him two notes by hand in German, according to the seller, a relative of the messenger. "Maybe if you're lucky, those notes will become much more valuable than just a regular tip," Einstein told the messenger, according to the seller, a resident of the German city of Hamburg who didn’t tell his name.

The two notes will go on sale on Tuesday at the Winner's auction house in Jerusalem, alongside other items including two letters Einstein wrote in later years.