arrived Jan.10,1870 
St.Louis, Dec. 19,1869 
Dear Friend 
Over 6 weeks already are we here, and for nearly 4 weeks I 
have your letter, and still I have not found the time nor the spi- 
rit, however let me tell you. For you and the ladies, who are may- 
be more interested in such things, how we fared, what's going on 
and what is not going on, 
No, your gereetines did not reach us in Bremerhafen. On the 
th of October we departed accordinze to plans on the beautiful stean- 
ship Rhein ( which arrived yesterday arain in New York ), with a 
mixed mass of passenseers, mostly Germans,who lived spread out all 
over America, who hurried to their homelands to all parts of the 
United States to California and Texas, Costa Rica, Brasil, St. Do - 
mingo -, entertainment was never missang, and the short time passed 
so quickly, that one could not get to real work and reading. In the 
port of Southampton we anchored 13 days and used the stay with magri- 
ficent weather for an excursion to the ruins of one of those famous, 
ivy-covered english abbeys, Nettby, then into the atlantic ocean, 
where wind an‘ weather were unfavorable but not quite bad,and we 
early 
made the crossing between Tueday afternoon analFriday of the following 
week. Friday or Saturday, the ships from Bremen take 12 - 1h days after 
leaving Bremen to make the crossing includinze a stop of 1% days at 
Southampton, 
In Southampton I found my treasures, which had been sent from 
Kew with much more conscietious care than those I left in Vienna, 
Prag and Genf (? E.D.). I also must thank the poor Camel for its pun- 
tuvality - Letters from Graz, which I received, promise punctual pay=- 
ments, and that, as you write, did actually happen. George hinsn 
arrived home again 3 - 4 weeks aro. 
MISSOURI 
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