Letter of no date:1
My dear Brother!
We are dressed up because Gretchen Peers announced that she was coming and the coachman will take our letters. We cannot send the clothes to Husum without sending a few lines with them.
Yesterday an entertainment was given by the Tyrol till 12 o'clock, 6 ladies danced. Except the two Uncles2 no one was there from us. Is it also like that in Husum?
Your Sister Iwanne.
P.S. Bertha has already a hat and sword like a cheese knife — Bertha is very glad. She will write another time.
Iwanne.
The letter was written between Easter 19 April 1840, when M was apprenticed in Husum and 2 February 1845, the date of Iwanne's death. The translation was inserted in the scrap-book between Iwanne's letters to M dated 8 October 1841 and 13 January 1842, and has been dated on that basis.
Johann Ferdinand Mertens and Theodor Müller?
Letter not found. The text given here was 'Translated in Sydney from the German', and placed in Louise Wehl's scrap-book.
Please cite as “FVM-42-00-00,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on