Wolgast, May 8, 1878 



Dr. Engelmann, 

 St. Louis. 



Dear SirJ 



For quite a number of years I have been occupyinpr myself with the Importe tion 

 of American wood, namely on the one side for sMp-buil di ncr, ^or floors and cahinet- 

 making on the other side, pitch pine, yellow pine ^nd cypress from Mobile; to 

 these types of wood, recently I also added as import ^rticles, black wnlnut and 

 cedars. 



The many connections I have entered with state and city authorities, let me 

 realize the considerable deficiency that, in spite of diligent searching in the 

 available botanical books and in spite of inquiries with professional authorities, 

 I could not ascertain what exactly yellow-pine and what pitch-pine is. From the 

 enclosed letter of Dr. Wittmark, to whom I am thankful for your address, you will 

 see how also this gentleman is in doubt regarding the yellow pine. I have been 

 asked by Dr. Wittmark if possible to obtain for him seeds, bark, needles and fruit 



of the tree and thot I should turn to you with the request for Information, 



the f oresf Oranger Dr. Nördlinger, who at the present time is so overburdened with 

 research material, that he must make the immediate research of the specimens which 

 I sent, dependent on the Identification of the name of the kind of wood that is in 

 question. 



Now that I have requested my supplier, A. C. Danner & Co. in Mobile, to send to 

 me here, also to your address, some seed, needles, etc., of the kind of wood sent 

 to me, the yellow, resp. pitch pine and the cypress. I ask you dear sir, to 

 kindly, with a few friendly words, prive me enlightenment of the matter which is so 

 important to me, and thereby to make me prreatly indebted to you. 

 Sincerely, 



J. feiHW, Kraeft 



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