teil you in person sometime what was said in the city about 

 this subject. - 



I received your esteemed letterjwith the receipt from my 



brother-in-law and our final Statement properly and tbank you 



kinJtly f or your help in this development. 



The politioians are arrivins- here slowly.lt is rare to see 



the Avenue fully clear, possibly because of the disagreable 



and changeable weather. It seeras thatthe know nothing-ness 



could become a hard nut f which everybody cracks most determinedly 



but with füll violence (Ungestüm could also mean "in a hurry'V 



E.B.).-For III could easily be that the laws governing naturali- 



Sation be modified in this, but more likely in the next Session. 



All eyes are on Sebastopol , and there are here, in view of the 



complete satisfaction Soula* s through Louis, considerable sympa- 



thies for Russia. Our Congress will therefor have hardly time 



for the most important domestic issue (tralislated verbatim) the 



Pacific Hailroad. It is said that this question will be touched 



toward the end of the Session but only lightly. 



The colonel is at present still in California and I hear 



just now that he is expected back by the middle of Deceraber. 



The barometers lie untouched in their leather cases in a corner 



of the office awaitlng their fate with thegreatest devoutness. 



Equally so the packages with the identif ication: Barometrical 



Observations CP.K.K. . which were calculated with the /rreatest 



relaxation and with much clevemesflby a Prof* Blodgett. 



As ever Yours F. W. Eglof f stein 



NB Porgive possible mistakes, 



It is very dark here. 



Ve^tical line across pas:e one: Please write to me if you re- 

 ceived these lines properly. - 



(Translated from German Script by Edgar Denison, St. Louis Mo. 

 October 198? 



