
          Williamsbourgh [Williamsburg], 15. Febr. [February] 1853.


 High revered dear Sir!


 Your kind visit You have given us last Friday in our smal [small] but for
 us very dear solitude, has enjoyed and happy maked us very much. Inmost
 thanks for Your kindness and benevolence for us! heartfelt thanks also for
 Your benign sending of coals, a most valuable and enjoying present to us.
 Blessed be You, dear Sir, with all our benefactors! 


 I am tranquillated and happy for so more, because Your valuable present
 You have so kindly provided for us, has consolated and enjoyed greatly me wife,
 wich [which] has been already in some dispair [despair], because our coal-store was near exhausted 
 and she knows, how very much we have presently yet to reduct our
 expenses, before our little store will be more profitable. The female character
 in such relation is more anxious, but I am now less discouraged in the hope,
 the future will yet bring better results to my sincer [sincere] efforts in helping me up,
 and perhaps my fate at last will be reconciled with me.


 My very dear Sir, last Friday, as I was so happy to see You here in my
 little establishment, You have wished to know, if I had maked yet some literary
 essays except my little Flora Jenensis ["Taschenbuch der flora von Jena," 1850]. It depresses me deep, that I till now only
 in writing can make me understand in somewhat to You and I pray once more for
 Your kind indulgence presently. I take the liberty, to communicate to You
 in relation to my literary carriére the follows. As a Pharmacien I did never
 neglect, to cultivate me in "Chemia", but our "amabilis scientia", the Botanic,

        