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Author: Ludwig Hitschler
Recipient: Johannes Dietz
Description: Letter from Ludwig Hitschler to Johannes Dietz, October 15, 1854.
Ludwig Hitschler to Johannes Dietz, Oct. 15, 1854
English Text
Schaafheim, October 15, 1854
Dear brother-in-law and sister,
If my letter reaches you the way it leaves us, we will be heartily glad. We haven’t heard from you in a long time. Anna is gone for a year now and hasn’t written anything so far. We long so much for you, especially mother. She shall think back to what she promised me back in Kleestadt. Peter Bohland’s widow wrote twice already but nothing from Anna. Bernhard Sehlinger’s son wrote that he talked to you. I ask you that you or Anna write me about how you are doing as soon as possible so that we can get rid of our worries. Still, we are blood relatives. You will assume that we want to talk for one more time. We would like to know, if Anna arrived well. When we ask the small child who knit her stockings she would say “Anna”. If you speak about us as much as we do about you, you can’t omit writing to us.
Dear brother-in-law, your mother gives lots of regards and said that she isn’t as well as in the past. Also, you brother Peter was in bed (?) twice already because of his health. In addition, I want to write you that Katharina didn’t make it to take it long in Babenhausen and now she settled back to Schaafheim to Peter Sauerwein in the Freundlich Gasse where she still stays.
Also, I want to write you that the crops turned out very well, but the potatoes were just half the amount as usual. Everything is very expensive. A bread loaf of 5 pounds is 21 kreutzer now.
I don’t know what else to write about. All of the friends are still well and we are longing for a response.
All friends give lots of regards
Ludwig Hitschler
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