Fendler, A # 



187^, February l6th 



Sea ford f Del, 



TRANSLATION 



Seaford f Del. February l6th, 187^* 



Dear Doctor, 



Your kind letter of January 2Jth was forwarded to me by me former landlady 

 in Philadelphia; I received it only yesterday. I am glad to know that you and 

 your family are well and that your scientific work is still taking up a great 

 deal of your time. But in all your talk about the comfortable study of yours, 

 a fact sticks out, namely that old age slowly takes the place of youth. If I 

 think back to the old times when I first made your acquaintance in 2nd street, 

 then later at the corner of 5th and Elm with little George at the hand of his 

 nurse, still walking with difficulty, with his full red cheeks and that he now 

 takes his place besides you in your scientific work, I see again the course of 

 human life. We old ones are joining the ranks of the aged while the fresh life 

 of youth is still continuing. 



As far as I am tfoncered, I have lived very quietly and satisfied after 

 writing my last letter to you, but not idle. During my stay in Philadelphia, 

 I worked hard in the library of the Academy of Nat. Sci. to learn the opinions 

 of others concerting my own work. I spent a great deal of time in Seaford 

 enlarging and completing this small work and am going to try to see whether 

 one of the local newspaper publishers might print it. 



After I made several fruitless trips to New Jersey trying to find land, 

 I went in the middle of October to Federalsburg, 121 miles south of Philadelphia, 

 located on the peninsula in Maryland where cheap farms were offered for sale. 

 I had planned to go there fckKr first and then to look around. However, since I 

 was unable to find living quarters and I had liked the little town of Seaford 

 while I was passing through, we moved there on November 7th and were fortunate 

 enought to rent an empty apartment the next day, the only empty one, for two 

 Dollars per month. Seaford is a town with a population of 1800, in Delaware, 

 situarted at the railroad going from Philadelphia via Wilmington and Dover to 

 the southern part of the peninsula. The distance from Philadelphia is 111 miles. 

 Seaford is located on the right shore of the Nafcticoke Riv., has a bank, two 

 hotels, three churches, one mill and two sawmilSS. Apart from us, only one other 

 German is living here (a Jewish merchant). During the last two and three years, 

 many families moved here from Michigan and bought places on various parts of the 

 peninsula, which means a straam of immigrants from the Northwesti Seaford has 

 a rather blooming trade in oysters which are being brought here during the months 

 of October to April by small ships from the Chesapeake BBy, being openen here by 

 local c/ster dealers, then packed and sent to Philadelphia. Somes times I have seen 







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