Rec.July 28 

 Ans* Aug 6 



St. Louis July 5 1868 



Dear Engelmann?, 



Your letter of June 4 f rom Berlin I received about a week?^ 



ago, but, as I had written a letter to you just 3 davs earlier, I 



delayed my answer a week. In the meantime, the letter of you wife 



has arrived, which my wife will answer as soon as possible* . Yester- 



day, on the 4th of July, I was of course in the country with my/ 



family. The day was sultryvbut at our altitude with the constantJ- 

 fairly 



south'east-wind (tolerable . I 1 raised with Pritz the famous flag of 



Kimnm , which we had taken earlier for his flag, and lt 



fluttered: 5 proudly in the air. Later in the af ternoon came a tre- 

 mendous thunderstormr with severe rairr and hall!, , which did harm to 

 the f lags, so that they will need some reconstructiom Thi>s was the 

 first good rairr, which we have had in 5 - 6 weeks. In St. Louis, though t , 

 where I returned in the evening*, it thundered and had lightning in 

 honor of the ^tfr, but received only 1/100 inch rairr, though the ma- 

 ximura thermometer s^bwed 100,5» the hiebest, which we had up to now, 

 but since has been observed as 101,. fckKxkfc£h«srfcxwsxteaM[ On my land 

 everything grows pretty wellT, but the young peachtrees have suffered" 

 from the locusts«, I am in the process, to observe these insectsr 

 somewhat more accurately, their 27 year returrr seems to me to be 

 based on error. My children are very well 1 , only my wife, who has jlocx 

 much work, coraplains sometimes., She has at present no maid,because 

 the servant girl, we had, had to help her parents during harvest.. 

 We had to accomodate ourselves f or the time being» . Fritz, who is~ 

 very active, made himself immediately Schweizerbua (dialect for- 

 Swiss Boy, E.D. ) and milks the cow accundum artem (artfully,E.D. ) „ 



