Bandelier, A. J. 

 January 2, l86g. 

 Highland, 111. 



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Highland, 111, 2nd January 196 j. 

 Dear Sir, 



Please accept my sincere thanks for your offer made in your kind 

 letter of the 3Qth of last month, as well as my sincere good wishes for 

 the beginning year. May the storms which are now disturbing the air be 

 no indication for the course of events which brought our unhappy country 

 to the edge of destruction by all this insanity and passions, especially 

 not for your city. Ifonly the new year would open the eyes of the people, to 

 make them realize what all this lost blood is calling for loudly; that if 

 a nation wants it, inly the total destruction can prevent it to reach 

 its aim, especially if this aim is independency. But why complain; in any 

 event I am still too young to realize the entire extent of the disaster; 

 but can only feel deeply (perhapts too much so) and am therefore very sad. .... 

 Let us turn to something more encouraging. 



I am accepting your kind suggestion and thke the liberty to enclose 

 a draft on the "Comercfel Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia", No. 3071 in 

 the amount of $ 35.00 which is drawn on me and indorsed to you. At the 

 present time we don't have any funds in New York, but only deposits in 

 Philadelphia and, therefore, send you a remittance from the latter, hoping 

 it will fill the purpose. And I am asking you to order a barometer for $ 25.00, 

 insurance $ 5.00 and a thermometer for 4 5.°°. Naturally, I prefer to have 

 the instruments insured. Should you have any other expenses, please let me 

 know, so that I may repay you immediately. — Once in possession of uese 

 instruments, I shall be able to deliver accurate reports.; to determine 

 the height above sea level of this place, in short, make Highland into 

 a real station, something I had v/ished to do for 5-6 years, or you might 

 say dreamed about. Up to now, I had only studied since I had to have the 

 necessary knowledge. Therefore, I don't put any importance at all in my 

 results since in the beginning I did not even know how to use the defective 

 instruments I had. 



I am enclosing a short note which contains the yearly results. I 

 believe that only the results concerning the wind, cloudiness, rain and 

 thermometer are correct, and perhaps the latter two only partly, since the 

 difference of 1.2 F. above freeing (32.2 instead of 32°) seems very odd 

 to me. I think that the two first ones are more accurate since while watchin 



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