Pr. 
nei 
St. Louis, Sept.25,1866 
Dear Braun 
I wanted to write to you already a week aro but could not find 
the time;Sunday the letter was to depart but did not and this evening 
is the cut-off for mail and I do not want to postpone any longer, for 
I have a lot to tell about Isoetes, two new species and determination 
that Braunii is a good species.-There arrived a few hours earlier 
stippled beard stands probably for war-like sentheets I I assume ‚Il 
will have my own taken soon as so many have asked for it. 
The news of Mettenius death came throush Cecilg@'s circular and nit 
like a thunderstroke,totally unexspected and thus with even deeper 
impact, as we are all around us surrounded by cholera, and as Just a 
short time back we were afraid to lose our Georg from it. We have had 
severe cholera since the date of my last letter for about 6 weeks, 
nearly 
now it has|disappeared.None of those near us died, but how many chil- 
2% 
ren lost older 3, barents their children, youne mothers their fa- 
milies, fathers theirs;show sometimes Il, a doctor, felt peinfullykhe 
desperation.Just as the sickness started Georg vegan His FirEt „.+.>+% 
vacation trip, up the Mississippil;his first stop was to be Davenport, 
Iowa where Dr. Parry,who'se name is know to you from the Rocky Moun- 
tains, lives.Suddenly there came a telegeramm from Parry "George is 
dangerously sick,more by mail" and almost at the same hour an obvious- 
Ay older letter from Georg,saying he has severe diarrhoea but we should 
not worry. Cholera had definitely appeared in those days; the everning 
before and again the same morning I had seen cases od death and all 
combined nointed to Cholera, and Cholera after preceding, Severe 
diarrhoea is ard was then almost always deadly. Ton omn imagine our 
feelines as the hours passed after our departure;my wife came along 
of course. From 3 0o.c. in the afternoon until 3 o.c. the next morning 
we travelled to Chicago and then westward in another train for 6 naın- 
MISSOUR!I 
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