Hosterwitz b. Dresden, January 28,1920. 



Dear 7 Ir. Deane, 



with warmest feelings 1 received your good letter of 

 December 22,1919 after the long interval by the dreadful war, and we 

 all were sincerely pleased to learn you came out of it well. The last 

 mail from you has reached me in January 1917, a letter, opened by cen- 

 sor, enclosing 2 Christmas cards to us all from you and Mrs. Deane. 1 am 



sorry if my correspondence got lost as 1 kept on sending Christmas 

 greetings as usual until 1917 when my letter to Prof. Goodale returned 

 and 1 consequently gave up writing. The censure was rigorous, all let4^ ■ 

 ters to send open. 1 thank you sincerely for your kind sympathy, and 1 

 am pleased you heard my letter to Prof. Goodale. He has proved again 

 the good old friend in noblest way that 1 never shall forget of him 

 and he gave me good prospects to future. 1 shall be delighted to con- 

 tinue in another work for the Harvard Museum. Dr. Goodale 's friendship 

 gave us much relief in the present desolate time. You will kindly ex- 

 cuse the delay of this letter, 1 was anxious to reply at once. But we 

 were in great apprehension for my mother who had met with a serious 

 accident by falling on the stone-floor owing to a sudden fit. The case 

 was yet fortunate without fracture but she had two bad weeks. Today 

 some improvement is visible and the Doctor hopes she will get well 

 through. Yet she is awfully weak. We want her to live for better days 

 and sunny spring. Of course she is surrounded with every possible com- 

 fort that my wife and 1 always cared for her during the dreadful years. 

 We neither spared expense neither trouble to procure for her the best 

 that the pressure of the war permitted, otherwise, with the increasing 

 infirmity of age she would have fallen a victm of the war like so many 

 persons of her age. The tremendous scarcity had the consequence that we 

 got entirely dependent on the insufficient provisions by the ruling 

 authorities. The free sale of all victuals, except some vegetables, was 



