Hosterwitz b. Dresden, January 18, 1920, 1-9 19'^ 



Dear friend Professor Dr. Goodale, 



Your 'good letters of December 21 and 

 25, have safely reached me, and we learned with -delight this renewed 

 proof of your friendship. They came so right as a sunbeam at a time when 

 apprehension was upon us, the good prospects to future and the wonderful 

 surprise by the noble Christmas gift, the draft for 9256 Marks. Please 

 accept warmest thanks for this friendly act. So far as friends. of the 

 Tuseum were contributing to it please assure them of my gratefulness, 

 we feel no more abandoned, this gives much relief in thesegloomy days, 

 heard with sincere sympathy what youco omunicated us of yourseli , your 

 sons and grandchildren. The blessing of God was upon you all, that you 

 ro^ld see "your grandsons return sound and safely. As to ourselves i am 

 very sorry that the pleasure of these days was saddened by apprehension 

 at my mother's state of health. On Wednesday she met with a serious accideft 



by falling in the house, hitting her head on the stone- floor owing to a 

 sudden fit. The doctor hopes the concussion of brain is only slight, but 

 he fears the possibility of apoplectic consequences m ner high age, as 

 the senile Arteriosclerosis is much advanced with her. g j£ f * !»JJL^ 

 nurse her with utmost care to alleviate her pains and she is b urrounaed 

 with every comfort possible, as she was always, witn the best tnat the 

 presion of the abominable war has permitted. During o years we were de- 

 pendent as to everything of daily life fro* the state and 



what they portioned out. Free sale was strictly prohibited and liming 

 tickets were set on all victuals, except some vege,aoles , ( J»J^'g- 

 on soap, clothes, shoes etc.). The bread was ^ indigestible composition 

 of rve milled at 94 percent with full bran, potatoes, turnips, vetches 

 aL ^substitutes of unknown kind ^^^^^ff^^S^, 



a 

 por- 



week about 1/3 of a p*unfi %m J?*%*iJ?%& ft** fre« from Dane- 



to 8 hours walking to visit a recommend df.rmr a jaa 

 with half a pound of butter on sta- 



limbs, happy to have got ^afely ttooug the go/er^n acouired wi th- 



tions and roads, who unrelentingly *^ prevent starving from 



out tickets. I did not spare ^pense an^ trouble Jo preve ^ S 



us all, after the principle, that fortune t £ an Uf of ray 



and life never. If my funded income, then a \*^^*J*fa£ l This 

 former American revenue was not sufficient i ™dxiz p present 

 could be all calmly endured. But the ^SKSfSoSSSi/nS experiment 

 days is the worst that ever coukd be ^{^J^-^SS. t!» so-called die- 

 with the now elective taxes and ^ t g»*^^£*^ only keep ■ one 



tress-sacrifice is a dangerous f J er ^ ^ Question is now: 



third of the income for the expense of rU*». ^rLny? Well, this 



will these sacrifices prevent ^^^^^^oS^ain. 1 am'grateful 

 time demands, not to lose courage and „o star * ^of f 



