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slowly, but surely. My stomach is as yet very weak and 

 will not accept heavy, substantial food, so that my diet is 

 rather restricted and my limbs, being swollen as far as 

 the knees, remind me of their deficiencies by cramping 

 pains and by trembling whenever I venture to take even 

 moderate exercise that I must not consider myself "a 

 healthy man." These troubles, however, are but the con- 

 sequences of the fever and will disappear in time. As 

 you know me well enough, you will realize that it is not 

 my own temporary indisposition which gives me most 

 concern, but the state of my Marie's health; I long to 

 hear favorable news about her condition. 



Hearty greetings to all my loved ones ! F. L. 



Fbom the Diary.* 



February 28th, 1853. My health had somewhat im- 

 proved and a clerkship in a toy-store had been accepted 

 at thirty dollars a month and board. This lasted just a 

 month, when Otto Deussing, the owner, expressed his re- 

 gret, that business would not allow the expense, but that 

 I could remain, with board, free, until something better 

 turned up, which I gladly accepted. 



March 15th, 1853. My strength has returned and witli 

 it my courage to try again. To-day, I bought a hand- 

 cart for fifty dollars (payable at convenience), and the 

 morrow will find me at the corner of Battery and Com- 

 mercial Streets as ''hand-cart-man No. 107." 



Griinhagen is said to have opened a store in Pajaro. 

 Olias, Kamcke and Emil Boettcher are in the mines, suf- 

 fering from fever. 



*The following pages contain the most interesting details, 

 gathered from the diary of the author, as from now on there are 

 but few letters in a sufficient state of preservation to be trans- 

 lated. The diary in itself is a model among its kind. Such neat- 

 ness, accuracy and faithful execution, till sickness disabled the 

 noble man from continuing it. are seldom seen ; and they show- 

 that the author must have been thorough in everything. — Transl. 



