Ree. Oct. 6 Leonhardt Prague, Sept. 9,1864 



Ans. Jul.3i.l865 



Dear Georg ! 



Jüst about to depart for Pietz, where a meeting of all represen- 



tatives for a discussion of our affairs; from there hope to be back 



in 8 days ( the German equivalent of "1 week H ),and, lf I then. do not 



find urgent business here, 1 will go to the meeting of Naturali st s 



in Hessen, because this is on the way between Frankfurt, Heidelberg 



Gottingen and Berlin, which I would like to Visit from Leipzig and 



Dresden, to greet friends during this vacatlon. - I write specially 



today to anounce to you my nephew, Dr.med.Otto Kraus and his young 



wife from Prague, and to ask you and your dear wife,to reeeive therr 



kindly, if the time permits,and, if they need, to assist them kindly 



with good Council; if the ask for it.It is perhaps a daring step for 

 very 



a young doctor to go strai^ht to North America, He did not ask my 

 opinion. You will soon know, where you stand with him. He will have 

 to sret all kinds of experience. That as a radical German he does not 

 care for the southern f armers, will be obvious to you and not keep 

 you from agreeing about other subjects. He had from early an urge to 

 sro into forei&n countries, and chose now Jeffersohn City (slc»E.D..) 

 as new doraicile, where last year his uncle,Dr. Ludwig Kraus died sud- 

 denly, leavinf a widow and ^ children, and, where also an uncle of his,, 

 I believe, as baker ,lives. Also a cousin of his,I believe,lives now 

 in St. Louis as a tin worker.May he set roots well. The wife you may 

 like. He is much interested in plants and is a collector. But, a real 

 botanist he is not by now. . Perhaps, this gives you basic points of 

 ref erence. A new booklet about the Austrian developraental morphoge- 

 netic viewpoint »which was completed recently.I have sent to Julius 

 for you. If however he has not sent it yet,he can certainly p>et an- 

 other, and I give now a copy and several print-sheets to 



