Rec'dJan 2T 



Ans. 25^^ ofJune in Berlin 



Rome January 2/^ 1869 



My most lionored dear Doctor: 

 If I seem brief in my answer to you valuable fetter, you will already know of the 

 circumstances that lead to crowding and pushing from all sides on my working 

 conditions. A couple ofnew revisions have been added since you were here and within 

 half an hour I must go to the University even ifit is lecture -free time for me.lt is true that 

 I am not yet in the Situation of Bürger' s Lenore so that I sing:" Patience, patience even if 

 my heart is breaking" ;- my patience is what threatens to break . " Keep working, always 

 with patience! 



Enough ! Ifyou could see, my dear friend, how horrible our gardens look when 

 they six days ago were so beautifui! Our ? have been frozen for four nights. Opuntia 

 hangs down to the ground; the beautifui Ensete have turned into a heap ofhalf 

 carbonated , dirty lumps. The frost even got part ofthe new ? The brangevin 



