Well, and the case ! Of course it did not depart prior to the 
closinge of Hamburg,and probably stands at your home and cannot de- 
part! Shonld we send it by way of Antwerpen or Rotterdam ? I thirk 
so despite the hisher costs -— I just must have it I! 
And the wedding ? Did it take place on the dav of the decla- 
nt - - 
ration of war and does the young husband eo to the front instead 
into the chemical factory ? I hope not for your sake, especially 
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for Mathilde. 
If the thines have not yet been shipped, then leave the rocks 
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from Bohemia out. They interest me very little and cost too much. 
Put them in an attic room where they are not in the way. 
The candelabras, the "cursed ones" conld be sacrificed for a 
patriotbe cause,if my sister will agree to this, 
The "sick finger" still has a black monk's beret, as the nsil 
was discarded, otherwise it is useable again, and had to work past 
nieht at an-instrument delivery.. 
How strangely Reiseck writes,as a bohemian or hungarian ! 
I am glad, that Alex. Agassiz is well - I never got to meet himin 
persons But his father seens to be throush - will be able to be of 
with current problems. I hear that he is not permitted to hold pub- 
From Georg we have zood news. His health seens to be better 
in Tübingen than it was in Berlins he has successfully submitted a 
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