Ree, Berlin May 22 St. Louis May 1. l86jj^ 



Dear Engelmann, , 



Your letter from Paris I reeeived this week. Allenclosed letters 

 have been taken care of©.. Talso reeeived a letter from Mr.. fromn 

 Bonn:, which I answered immediately, Your complaints about the poor 



V/eather in Paris are quite natural? as one has to see there so muchr and 

 one must be eternally on one's legs. Our April was by and large good.. 

 But last week we had haili as I have never seen it.On the West- side of 

 my house 20 windowpanes were broken before I could close the sbutters,. 

 and it was similar through the entire City©. Today, May 1, the weather 

 is very harsh^only M, and the heating is pleasant. In thd middle of 

 April all the fruit trees came into flower,and seem not to have suffered 



Vmuch from the Dezember, than was expected". The woods are beautifully 



green and in the country is much to be done. My family is alreadyv- since 



2 weeks in the countryvand is well. I shall go down there this evening 



to spend Sunday there and to enjoy the Spring somewhat. Dr. Shuman ( ?) , 



as you see from the enclosed^ cut-out , we had to bury already. He un - 



dertook still a trip to New Orleans, but came back in bad shape,^«**, 



and succumbed soon thereafter.lt is a severe loss for the Academy,, 



which, Stands anyhow on weak feet.. Our negotiations with the Board of 



the P.S.. have not yet lead to a positive result.^The frequent change 



in the Board is a considerable restraint. Some weeks ago we had in the 



East a red Northern Light, , for which the normal! phenoraena in telegraphy 



not westward 

 were observed, it seems to^have extendedxaHixxxxxxfesnricy from Cincin 



(Cincinnati ? E.D. ) as the easterly coast works without batteries ,. 



not the western, also, ,my electrometer gave no reading.. 



Praxis is middling, many cases of German measleff, but lightt. Weekly^ 



death-cases always below 100. Where do you expect to spend the Summer?" 



Most likely in Germany and probably in Berlin.. About your departure 



to America, there is probably nothing definitive, except, that you will 





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