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Dr. Wislizenus 



March 21, I869 



not yet permit tilling^, and the Vegetation 1s still in Winter sleep.. 

 My little weather prophet , the terrapinv has until now kept under 

 ground, which normall y it leaves at the real beginning of Springs 

 If you should have occasion v in Paris, perhaps to get for me some 

 fresh' seeds c in the well-known störe of Libanon, Wien, Cedrach in the 

 Jardin des Plantest you could perhaps mail them in a letter..I want 

 to try, to grow them on the South side of my porch. Of Kimm I" re - 

 ceived a letter from Dresden, and wrote arain. Of Halen nothing yet.. 

 Re seems to have found his Capua in Italyv- 



The conflict between Grant and the Senate has thawed out the 

 animosities to be expected; Soon there will be more. Amusing is,by 

 the way, how the president let the radical Missouri delegatiorr sink 

 in regard. to the distribution of jobs^ specially the new-baked Sena- 

 tor, who is taking vengeance by voting against the repael of the te- 

 nure of office bill. Drake voted for it^and will receive for this^ 

 the left-over patronage for the filling of positions in Missouri, 

 In the imrainent war between Grant and the Congress,the Democrats 

 can serenely be spectators, like the wife in the story of the bear.. 

 If I were forced to sympathize I would prefer the dictator Grant to 

 the criminal element..But the development has not progressed so far yet», 

 but I 1 with many others believe, that it will come to that.. 



Dr. Hilgard published since some time in a German Sunday news - 

 paper articles: : "The Moon as Agitator 11 Some light thoughts swim from 

 it into a flood of nonsense, without gramrao^* and logical unity : but 

 curious. I have kept some of the sheets for you - Wiskey - Schneider 

 died of softening of the bralrrand lived in the last years very irre- 

 gulär ly. r 



March 22. Beginning of Spring with a snowstorim The smart Terra- 

 pin remains still in the earth. My wife and childtren are well and ask 

 to send their p-reetings. My wife wants to enclose a few lines, , if 



