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in necessary means, I suppose you will not want anything 

 more from me before next winter. As I told you before leav- 

 ing home, you must let me know long enough beforehand so 

 that I can raise the means without having to make sacrifices 

 to get the money; and also the manner of transmitting it to 

 you, or your obtaining it by draft on some house in New York 

 or elsewhere. I want to get along to supply you without 

 involving myself or property, if possible. Easton will want 

 help, Esther wants a piano, etc., etc., but your case stands 

 first on the lists. My heart is larger than my treasury. I 

 want to make all things meet right. I abhor to be in debt. 

 I should be unhappy if my pecuniary concerns were deranged. 

 I want when I leave the stewardship to leave it uninvolved, if 

 possible. 



May the Lord bless you. 



(From a diary) 



Tuesday 9. With Weld walked to Gohlis, and read upon 

 an arched gateway "Here lived Schiller and wrote the hymn 

 to Joy in the year 1785," and in the upper story of a little, 

 funny house the poet lived, over the window of which was a 

 sign "Schiller Stube. " I carried home and pressed among 

 other flowers 3 sprigs of a Lubiate from near the gateway. 



Monday August 15. No more lectures from Erdmann. 



Friday 19. Call from Hiller who brings report from the 

 American colony at Gottingen, walked about town with him 

 and had a revel in Auerbach's Keller. 



Thursday 7 Saturday 17. Studied Schiller. 



Saturday 17. Weld returned from Thuringia 4 A.M. At 

 about 10 we moved to our new lodging 1678 West Street. 



Week from 17 to 25. Discontinued lessons from Dr. Zenker. 

 Remarked the opening and progress of the Fair. Rec 'd letter 

 from Father with Independent. Several Tribunes arrived. I 

 purchased two Agate mortars for 16 Rthl. Translated some- 

 thing in "Holland Dairy and Cattle." 



