Rec'd St. Louis 15 July 

 Ans. 29 July 



July 4^^ 1869 



Honored Friend! 



The days are going by and I want to answer your kind letter (of unknown 

 dato) from Berlin. We are now in the middle of examination time; and while on 

 the whole this is accompanied by an unusual and not entirely pleasant State of 

 activity I want you to consider what happens here; a person used to Organization 

 and discipline can get quite nauseated when trying to fight the traditional bad 

 habits ofone, the intolerable arrogance ofanotherand the lethal indolence of 

 most. There is no question that New Italy often seriously sins against common 

 sense and administrative experience: not only have the elements left behind from 

 Our motherland and its dusty tyrants been thoroughly strangied but it is not only 

 ready to 



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