Ree. Kreut znach Apr. lk 

 Ans. Berlin May 22 



St. Louis March 21, I869 



Dear Engelmanrn • 



Through the kindness of Mr. Soulard I reeeived your linear fromn 

 Nizza, that lovely Nizza, which I saw once in Mäyy in fulli Meppichn - 

 keit (a word raade up by Dr. W. from the jewish "neppich", rauch used? 

 in German vernacular, meaning: broke or defeated or ridiculous^E.D..)) 

 and perfuraed by orange blossoms. It is one of the friendliest places 

 in Italyy, a small , idyllic paradi se. ■ From Nizza you probably travelled 

 through the southern France to Paris, where these lines^ willjfraeet you 

 [stilll. 



I have nothing of impo*tance to report + . Your house I inspected 

 one of these days, when I had to make a call I at Robert Barnes^. The 

 böw window is finished and looks quite well; Work is going on in the 

 interioir, and, without doubt, by Fair it will be entirely finished.. 

 For the newly built faraily horae next to yours, the architect is said 

 to ask for $ 30.-. Of Sanders I do not know any further news f other,, 

 than that he is short on raoneyvbut will 1 probably make his way/,ifr gi- 

 ven the time.-Riess (could be Reuss.Reis, or almost anything, E.D.) 

 as a businessman^ can teil you more about this f , 



The praxis is middllng, the State of health is srenerally gfcod. 

 I was yeste-^day with Fritz in Floriana (Dr.W f s country place, E.D.) 

 with all kinds of activities and primarly to drive posts with the 

 sledgehammer into the soft earth of the vineyard,an excellent gymnas- 

 tic exercise, which activates the digestion better than bitter drops.. 

 This Summer I had already quite some eating grapesr, and later enough 

 to make my own wine; this transf ormation of wilderness to product,has 

 a stränge charr, and I feel entirely at home in my rock Castle. My 

 family will come down probably not until the end of ApriH, because 

 Spring was very late.. March was naraely unusually. cold^,and while we 

 had too ömch warmth in January we have now too little. The groundtf does- 



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