Leonhard i 



Dec.31. 1873 



evfel fortune has has done it in. 



I come to talk once more about mental lazyness. If you call 5 

 y ourseif in genere guiltyythan you do yourself a great injustice. 

 There are few, who are as caring and many-sided as you. 



You have not Witten anything about your sister. Hopefully», 

 they are all doing well. If occasion offers itself , greet them from 

 us f as we srreet you in friendship 



In Dresden is now, thanks to Hohlfeld 1 s activity teaching 



of plants by Krause pupils (?E.D«) with steady teaohers at the Real 



school, seminaries and gymnasia (the German preparatory school for 



universities.E.D. ) . This may deterraine to turn there when I retire. 



fresher than 

 There is now a ixsrxte spirit in schoolteachers at the universities f? 



where they work mostly for exams and are out for rewards, polltics 



and nioneyvand. where they admire the spirit of the tiraes.. 



Nöw, a Happy New Year, and, please, a quick overcoming of 



writer* s laziness t Your old friend 



Hermann Leonhard!^ 



(Beciphered and translated from German Script by E. Denison 



March 1990 ) 



