Fendler, A. \ 

 1881 f July 6hh 



Port of Sjjjain, Trinidad, W # I. 



TRANSLATION 



Port of Spain, Trinidad, 'Vest Indies, 

 July 6th, 1881. 



Dear Deotbur, 



I was very happy to receive a letter from you again, Yes, you traveled 

 and saw a lot in such a short time. When I traveled to New Mexico in l8**6, I 

 hardly thought that the changes in the great, then so distant 'Vest would take 

 place to qufc&kj I can well imagine that the pleasure and the impressions you 

 had during this trip great and will stay with you a long time. May you still 

 have many years to enjoy these memories. But perhaps you will go on mofe trips 

 to the Vest in the future in these days of quick transportation. Also, the 

 southern route of the railroad to California via Arizona is now completed—. The 

 only reason I can imagine for your taking up practicing medicine again is that you 

 like the exercise and diversion which may contribute to your physical^ feell-being. 



I was very much surprised to hear that your health was not quite satisfactory 

 lately anpi that you are suffering from a painful illness, which hppefull will 

 pass soon; 



My health too has not been what I had wished it to be. Lifting q wooden 

 fence which we tried to put into the right place, I injured myself (apparently 

 my chest and back) and then immediately suffered from an attack of rheumatism, 

 from which' I have not yet recovered. The pains in the chest are a great nuisance 

 sometimes^ especially if theyoccur around the heart. 



Afte^ the unusual rainy season in 1880 followed a just as unusual long and 

 completely dry period from the middle of December until end of May. The average 

 temperature in January l88l was 76. °5, February 77°. 8, March 8l°.l, April 8l°.3, 

 May 8l°9, *hmv 80°,1. Withouth any doubt, April and May are the hottest months 

 of the y iar here. But this year, the great heat had an especially bad effect 

 on my health, namely on my nerves, mind and eyes; my toother suffered mostly 

 from an eye infection so that we often longed for a fcooler climate in the 

 mountains, about two to four thousand feet above the sea level as you find it in 

 Jamaica. The cooler weather w*r'ch started in June brought a certain relief and made 

 us postpone our decision to leave. Here, we enjoy the advantages of a port town 

 dnd are located in a place where we can get the necessities of life easily. Also t 

 we are reluctant to leave the new plantings of ornament! plants and the improvements 

 we made on our land. 



We tould like to live in the mountains of Jamaica, but obtaining the 

 necessities of life there will not be easy and quite expensive. In the mountains 



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