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and which the fellows say is a good hit. He wishes to send 

 it to his father to look at, and it will get around to Deer 

 River in the course of 6 mos. or less. I shall leave Munich 

 in April probably, I can't say definitely, and may go directly 

 to Paris or possibly stop a few weeks at Hohenheim near 

 Stuttgart in Wiirttemberg to visit the great Agric. School. 

 When at Paris I shall be able to decide on the future. 

 Stephen A. Johnson writes me that he learned from a recent 

 letter of Father's that I have two sisters, one of 16 yrs. and 

 another of 13 yrs., and asks me what I think of their having 

 an English education. He does not say whether he had 

 written to Deer River anything about it. I read that Eliza- 

 beth has a lame limb, but I don't know whether it is sister 

 Elizabeth or sister-in-law Elizabeth, and further I don't know 

 whether it is a little finger or a leg that is lame. In either 

 of these cases I hope that nature may be left to cure it, and 

 the doctors not be called to spoil it. And now, as usual, I 

 don 't know what to write about. My life passes in the labora- 

 tory, and I can write nothing about it that would interest 

 anybody. I see little society. Occasionally I am invited to 

 dine or spend an evening at Prof. Liebig's, and then have 

 very pleasant chat with his accomplished daughter, now 

 betrothed. (All the young ladies are betrothed with cere- 

 mony some 1/2 to 5 yrs. before marriage.) Occasionally I 

 visit the family of Prof, von Kobell, and talk English with 

 his three daughters who speak, besides English and German, 

 French and Italian with great fluency. Besides these two 

 families I have never been in any others in Munich. I write 

 to be remembered affectionately to all the relatives and 

 friends. I hope before another half year to get back home 

 to find them all well and happy. I would write them all long 

 interesting letters, but I can't do it. Spirit and flesh are 

 weak. The evidences of my friendship are to work hard the 

 little time that I have yet to spend here, and not to bother 

 them with my dull letters. 



