Extracts from recent letter "by Rudolph Blaschka, the artist-naturalist 

 who constructed the glass models of plants and flowers f»» the Ware 

 Collection. Harvard University. 



Hosterwitz b. Dresden January 28,1920. 



Bear Mr, Deane, 



With warmest feelings I received your good letter of 

 December 22,1919 after the long interval oy 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 I kept on sending Christmas 

 greetings as usaal until 1917 when my letter to Prof .Oocdale returned 

 and I consequently gave up writing. The censure was rigorous, all letters 

 to send open. 1 thank you sincerely for your kind sympathy | and 1 am 

 pjfeased you heard my letter to Prof .Goodale. #i W#ff # # #^^ffifou will kindly 

 excuse 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 comfort that my 

 wife and I always oared for her during the dredful 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 viotum of the war like so many persons of 

 her age. The tremendous scarcity had the consequence that we got en- 

 tirely dependent on the insufficient provisions by the ruling authorities. 

 The free sale of all victuals, except some vegetables, was severely pro- 

 hibited, the purchase only permitted by official tickets.lt was insane to 



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