Jacobi - 8 - March 19fl86? 



Pinally I remark , that 1t will be difficult for me, to teil 

 you anything about the A« aneri cana af f inis, which you had sent 

 at some tlme to Dyor. Feer retired fron there to his father-city, 

 Halle a/S (Halle on the River Saale, E.D.)« As soon as I will get 

 his address, I will write to you. If Scheer is still alive, I do 

 not know,but believe to have heard,that he was dead. He has not ; 

 raised plant s for a long tine. 



Now, renain well, highly esteeraed friend, and se^d me soon 

 again news, your sincerely devoted 



Jacobi 



(t-ra^slated froFi Gernan script by Edgar Denison, Dec. 1988 ) 



Note 1. Frankfurt was aij independent city with its own ,?rovernnen.t 



until l866 ; when it becane Prussian. Dr. Engelnann was born 

 and raised there. 



An old Roman proverb; : Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo, 

 Strong in pursuit of a Roal, conciliato^fy in manner, 



"whipping boy" princely houses kept whipping boys.who 

 were whipped instead of the princelings. . 



The " Junkers" (old-Gernan for young genttenen) were the 

 sons of the titled gentry. As only the oldest son inherited 

 the land, youn^er brothers went into the arny.Their beha- 

 viour, arrogant, overbearing, glorifying the nilitary be- 

 cane unbearable« • 



The Reichstag is the GerviRn parlienent in Berlin ( now in 

 Bonn) m . 



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