Fenzl f E« 



1866 f November Ist 

 Vienna, Austria. 



TRANSLATION 



Dear Friend f VIenna, November l t 1866 



I don't know whether you have received any of the letters I wrote you after 

 our meeting in Vierma. I hope so f since in the meantime you have given me proof of 

 your friendship which makes me believe that you keep a friendly memory of me in your 

 heart. However f you never told me directly whether you received my letter. It is 

 possible that a letter which I sent you shortly after the outbreak of your civil war 

 did not reach you f that may be it f but also that two more of my letters might be lost 

 by the negligence of my servant. It contained the sad long story of the loss of my last 

 son who liked your George so much, he always talked about visiting you in America* I 

 don f t know whether I mentioned that in another letter too. 



According to my figuring f a second letter must have reached you in America when the 

 war between the south sind the north was at its peak around St* Lcuis. I should be so 

 happy to be sure whether this one reached you* I almost believe so f since about 6-8 

 months later I received a small package of seeds from you; however* without any letter. 

 My letter written more than one year ago certainly must have arrived. Your letter 

 written on March Ikth which was enclosed with the cactus seeds package sent to Baumann 

 makes me think so. Baumann is still an eager cactus grower and asked me to teil you 

 that everything you previously sent him is still alive and growing splendidly. Your 

 Cereus giganteus looks well among our specimens, but grows extremely slow. On the other 

 hand t all his Mammillaria specimens died which included M. barbata, if I heard right. 

 He asked me to thank you very much for the new delivery and also begs you to send him 

 more seeds of M. barbata etc. If you could do this, my Carl Baumann will be besides 

 himself for joy# 



I would be very much obliged to you if you would send me seeds of the very ordinary 

 plants growing around St. Louis for our Garden. I won f t even limit myself to the aster 

 and Solidago seeds. After looking over our Garden recently, I am more than convinced 

 that these species need to be seeded again f the same applies to verbena sind many other 

 species. Anything which is easy for you to obtain and to send to me would be accepted 

 here most gratefully. 



You probably already know the irreplaceable loss science suffered by the death of 

 our poor friend Braun and also by the death of Mettenius. I talked to Braun last year 

 during my trip to Amsterdam and was so happy to find him well and in good spirits. 

 Poor. poor friendl • . . . t¥hen I visited Mettenius. I found an up to now unknown Flora of 

 the southern states from recent times. Unfortunately, I forgot to write down the name 



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