In regards to the way you send them, I will leave it up to you. I think that using the mail is the 

 best and quiekest way. If one package is to big one can send it in parts two or three times, in 



4 



succession. But in any case I beg you not waste any time, because the seasons pass rapidly. There 

 is another reason that I want will teil you while finishing this letter. I must announce to you, that 

 unfortunately I am again obliged to move my residence. I thought that I could peacefully stay in 

 Vincennes or in Paris until the end of my career; I had planned my life in this way. But because 

 of a new Organization in the health Services of the Army, copied in great part from the German 

 Organization, I have been forced to become Physician in Chief of a Corp of the Army. This corps 

 of the army is located in the country an therefore I will need to leave Paris. I will probably go to 

 Rouen, to the 3rd Corps. It won't be before 3,4,or 5 years that I will be able to return to Paris as 

 Physician Inspector, Status corresponding that of General. This displacement bothers me 

 considerably, but I am obliged to resign myself, unless I want to quit my carreer. I plan to leave 

 Vincennes at the end of October or beginning November. You see that you do not have time to 

 waste to send me your packages. Thankfully I can (provisionally) leave all my plants and seeds 

 at the hospital where I have friends, Dr. Fevre (at Fontenay-sous-Bois, close to Vincennes).He 

 will take care of this collection of Cacti. I will, in any case, make arrangements so as to continue 

 my studies of plants, in my new residence. I will be delighted to meet your son, if while he is in 

 Paris he has time to come and see me at Vincennes. Unfortunately I did not specialize in 

 Gynecology, therefore I will not be useful to him in his scientific investigations. I will be happy 

 to see him and to express to him the veneration and friendship I have for his father. 



While waiting, I wish you good health and send you my best wishes. 



Alb. Weber 



translation Manfred Thurmann 



