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Bennewitz, by Halle a/S 13st August 1851
My Dear William,
I have to acknowledge the receipt
of yr three last kind letters from Bremen, Salcombe &
New York which latter I rec.d on the 17th July. For the
contents of the former, I return you my best thoughts in
the name of my dear Henry, who also adds his and a K???
and says he loves his uncle William who is gone on board ship.
The little fellow is grown very much and is very active. -
I ???? your ???? exactly, and should have been glad
to hear some particular from yo?? what ??????????
-?ers you had, whether you have improved in German at all,
how you passed your time and so further. - When you next
write, inclose Mother's letter in mine to avoid the double
postage, also direct via^ Bremen as they are much cheaper
than through England. For this purpose you must inquire
when the Mails leave New York, which you can ascertain
in every Post Office. - I have waited to answer yr last,
as I wished to give you some Account of my Harvest which
I can only do in part as it is not yet concluded and the
Packet Sails on the 5th. To commence with the Rapeseed,
the whole Spring and Summer have been so wet, that al-
-most 2/3 has been destroyed, otherwise I should have had a
good quantity, 91 Bush. is what I have. The Caraway has
shared the same fate in a still worse degree, the Rye is
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more than half lost, only. 187 1/2 Schocks. My Peas are fine
and have given 64 Shocks, Wheat, thank God, splendid,
392 Shocks very heavy two-thirds of it. The Summer
Rye which you helped me to pick has been more than
half destroyed through the rains, has only yielded ??? Schlock,
3/4 of the Barley are good but of light quality; , The
Beans ???? well , and the Oats are splendid, particu-
-larly those I sowed on the day of yr. departure from Bre-
-men. I have made 7 Loads Hay and 17 ???ove? which
last, however, is nearly spoilt, Besides 4 loads of good.
Your little brown Mare I have exchanged, the old brown
the Mare with the white mane and a new Horse dead,
the last two of Glanders, which made me very anxious lest
I should lose the whole of the rest ? little Fox grows
nicely ?? ?? ? has again been heard upon
?????? such ??? are no trifles. All the horses I now have
are thank God, good. My Beets will probably not be
as good as last year, my Sugar-Beets only middling,
the weather has prevented us from working them properly,
Potatoes will only be middling. If you can obtain from
a farmer for me the little Potatoe Apples which grow
on the top of the stalk, squeeze them out in a glass of
water and try a small portion of the seed, a small quan-
-tity of which you can inclose in a letter about 50 seeds of
each sort, you would do me a great favor, particularly
some of the sweet potatoes and the large Yams or
what you call them, which you have so often praised
to us. - Give us a long account of your doings in
your next letter, whether you have completed your
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??? if you are doing well and a thousand other things
which we should be glad to hear. Mother wrote to you
immediately on receipt of yours which I knew or I
should have contrived to write before. With regard to our-
-selves I have not anything particular to state, you
know what a monotonous life we lead, one day like
every other. - ??????????????????????????????
for the Harvest, and never have I had more trouble
or disatisfaction, such a lazy race without any
????tation in their employments, I have been obliged
to scold almost every two or three days, and at length
obliged to send away five before the Harvest is completed.
We are all well and hope to hear the same from you. You re-
-member the soldier I hired as we picked the rye, he turned out
to be a most ???? ??? scoundrel. I thrashed him once.
Is the cu??? your leg perfect? - What did ?
Schulz say when you returned with it cured?
Now, my dear William, write a long account about
yourself, your doings, your p??spects and rest as-
-sured that your welfare will ever have much interest
for us. Since your coming over here, I have
again learnt to feel what it is to have a Brother
????????? Brothers' love he ????
?? mine. With the sincerest good wishes for
your prosperity and the prayer to the Almighty
that he may spare you with trials and the expression
of ___our___ affectionate love, I remain, my dear Wm,
ever your most attached Brother,
F R C von Eberstein
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Peas, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rye, Oats, Rapeseed, William Henry Von Eberstein, Francis, labor, weather, thrashing, 1851, Francis Richard Champion von Eberstein