Buchenau, Fr. 
1880, May 9th 
Bremen, Germany 
TRANSLATION 
Prof. Buchenau 
Bremen 
Dear friend, 
This moment I received your kind letter of April 23rd which, with its news about 
your family, caused us a very sad Sunday. Your son ill so long--your dear wife dead-- 
these afflictions are almost more than one can suffer. We sympathize very much with 
you and wish from the bottom of our hearts that you may recover your strength and 
be restored by your profession and the so fruitful studies in the quiet, but 
beloved science. 
How often did my wife and I speak of you last summer, how you had been here with 
us in 1869 and that just 10 years have gone by and whether we will still have the joy 
of seeing you here again. But, I said then, our dear Braun is gone and,therefore, 
Engelmann would not like to come to Europe very much. How little did we know that 
during that time you had to suffer so much‘ 
We also had many illnesses to overcome. My wife had not recuperated for a 
whole year from a heavy attack of the measles and now she is suffereng from a female 
illness.-- My oldest children are grown up nOW, the oldest one is starting to go to 
the University next year; he is a very ambitious young person. His main interest 
is in hüstory and especially in numismatics. 
I have received your several very enjoyable shipments, the last one was the 
very excellent work on Pinus. Please, don't believe that such shipments, just because 
they don't deal with Juncus, are not more than welcome. I am using them right away 
in our City herbarium of which I now also am the administrator. 
I am very happy that you think for me of J. Halii and Kelloggii.-- Should you 
send me the duplicates of Juncaceae which you have amassed there, I shall conscien- 
tiously take care of them to your satisfaction and for the best of science. 1 
frequently receive requests for well determined Juncaceae, hut I only have duplicates 
of very few species. The Juncaceae are for you only a step, but for me the most 
important thing to which I often return (from my work in my office, from flora of 
Bremen and from the work on '"Kunia" and the new flora of the East Friesland Islands). 
I am sending you again the "South American Juncaceae". It is ineredible that 
it should have been lost. 
Asking you to not forget 
Your most devoted 
Fr. Buchenau 
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