CLARA BARTON GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Kruger, Theodore & Family June 1871-Oct. 1902[*33 Theodore Kruger Ansd June 17.- Sent a Thaler to pay for postage on Davis watch -*] Strasburg, June 16th 1871 - Dear Miss Barton, When I arrived home yesterday afternoon I found the enclosed and hasten to forward it to your address - I presented the authorization for getting the package from the post office and had to leave it there. The Post office clerk said the postman would bring the package to my house. I have to pay 3 frcs. and five sous. I found also a letter from Mr. Atwater, dated Paris, June 5th, in which he desired me to send the package to Terryville, Conn. through the U.S. Dispatch Agency in London which I shall do as soon as I get it. I was exceedingly sorry to have had to leave you so abruptly but hope to see you here onyour way to some watering place in Germany or Switzerland. The new Consul, Mr. Reuben S. Kendall of Connecticut is here since four days — he takes tea with us tonight. I am sorry you cannot be with us too. He seems to be a very nice man, was a presbyterian minister in Connecticut and he will no doubt do honor to the great and good country he represents. He is married and has two daughters and a young boy, but wife and children are only coming after the middle of July. Please let us hear from you soon; accept the love of Mrs. Kruger and the best respects of yours very truly Theodore Kruger Theodore Kruger June 23 - 1871 ansd " 25 " about Dorrs watch Strasburg, June 23d 1871 TK [*33 Krugrr*] Dear Miss Barton, I should have written to you yesterday, but the new Consul — a very nice man, who was minister of the Gospel at Vernon, near Hartford, Conn. — take every moment of my time in requisition and he is waiting now — till I have finished this letter — in order to have me go with him to hunt for rooms outside of the city for his wife and daughters who are coming next month. He is some what disappointed because the Consulate does not pay much and he finds rents &c very high. I have delivered your authorization to the post office and the employee said they would send the box to my house. After having waited a few days withoutreceiving it I returned to the Post office and inquired for the reason of the delay. I was told that the box had been returned to the place where it came from, before I had presented he paper. Will you therefore write immediately to Mr. Golay, at Geneva so that in case said box is not already in his hands he may claim it at the P. office there. The best then, it seems to me, would be to request him to send it directly to Terryville, Conn; else, I am afraid there will again be difficulties or delays. Mr. Atwater, supposing that I could get the box from the Post office writes me, on June 5th, to send it to the U.S. Dispatch Agent; B.F. Stevens, Esq. No 17 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, and adds that he knows that he will send it in the Dispatch bag. If you have it sent to the Dispatch Agent in London, of course Mr. Golay will have to pay the postage to London. Yesterday the husband of your maid, Mr. Hindenach, sent a young man to me in order to receive the two thalers which she had given me for that purpose and I gave them to him. Please excuse the very great haste with which I scribble these few words and believe me very respectfully yours Theodore KrügerTheodore Kruger June 27. 1871 Ansd directly 25 rue du Vieux marché aux vins Strasburg, June 27th 1871 - TK [*33 Kruger*] Dear Miss Barton, The hasty note in which I told you a few days ago that the box has been sent back to Geneva, ere I reached Strasburg, has been most likely received by you. Your favor enclosing One prussian thaler has also come to hand and, having had no postage to pay I return the thaler. Since my return from Paris I have not had one moment to myself but was constantly with the new Consul hunting for rooms. His family consisting of wife, two daughters and one boy are to arrive here towards the end of July and he wished to find a place for them in the mountains. So we wentto Niederbronn, in a beautiful neighborhood and with the advantage of being connected with the City by a railroad. When I found out that expense was a decided consideration I suggested to look for a place nearer the City where he could live with his family and be in town only during office hours. We went to villages beautifully situated on a slope, 6 miles from the City but only half an hour's R.Rd ride from it, also to the Robertsau, 2 miles distant only, and to Schiltigheim also two miles. We found nice and Suitable rooms at the latter place and yesterday, on the way of going out there to engage the rooms he saw a bill on a house in the rue de la nuée bleue, went up and took them. They are very nice and so is the whole house The only objection is that the rooms are on the fifth floor. Now think of the office of an American Consulate on the fifth floor, and that in a City where all the offices are on the ground floor, There would be no objection to having the office on the Second or even third floor, but on the fifth seems almost like having an utter disregard for the dignity of the office as well as for the convenience of the persons one has to deal with - We have moved yesterday to the Robertsau, where we intend staying a month in my fathers in law's country house. I see it is time for me to start for the Robertsau and I conclude in haste. Hoping these lines will find you well I am as ever Very sincerely Yours Theodore KrügerTheodore Kruger Aug. 18. 1871 Answered fr Lyons - [*33*] Strasburg, Aug. 8. 1871 - Dear Miss Barton, I was just packing my valise and preparing for a trip to Hamburg to see my old friend Edwd Robinson the founder of the Consulate at Strasburg, when your kind letter of 5th inst. was brought to me. Even though I have to write in very great haste I will not start without acknowledging the receipt thereof and thanking you for your kind wishes for myself and family. I was quite astonished to see you are at Lyons and have no doubt you will enjoy your The new Consul who seems to be a very reputable gentleman reconsidered the matter of moving the Consulate up on the 5th floor, and engaged again the office in our house where it is now as usual.If not delivered within ten days Postmaster will please return to Theodore Krüger, late U.S. Vice Consul at Strasburg, Alsace Germany. Miss Clara Barton Washington D.C. U. S. of America. [*33 Kruger*] there with Miss Margot. I am exceedingly sorry not to have received your last letter and share with you any amount of ill feeling against the french postal administration. France is the only country in Europe now who goes for high postage and reduced weight of letter (for it allows only 10 whilst all other countries allow 15 grammes) A letter from here to France, and vice versa, not prepaid, would not be forwarded at all. I have three newspapers for you but did not send them on because generally americans for whom I receive letters tell me not to send the news papers, reports &c in order to save postage. Now as there would have to be a double, i.e french & german postage to be paid on them, I kept them at your disposal. I have not heard from Mr. Rhyner a very long time. Day after to morrow my family are going to Oppenau where I shall join them on my return from Hamburg in about 10 days - Please address in this manner: Theodore Kruger per addr. Herrn Th. Dreher Oppenau Renchthal (Baden) With best regards from all to Miss Margot, much love from my wife to yourself I am very Sincerely Yrs Theodore KrugerAPR 14 N PAID ALL CARRIER 14 APR 7 PM name contained in the french vocabulary of political fanaticism was given to him. He was not Strong-minded enough to resist or to despise those meaningless vituperative declarations and did - what they just - wanted - he gave his resignation as candidate and Mr. Lauth, the deposed Mayor was elected. Not being quite sure whether this will reach you or not I will conclude. We all hope these lines will find you in restored health and in the best of Spirits. My wife sends her best love; Mr. Bergmann unites with me in best respects to you and we all trust to hear from you very soon - Very Sincerely Yours Theodore Kruger [*33 Kruger*] 25 Alter Weinmarkt Strasburg, Elsass, March 24th 1874. Dear Miss Barton, We have not heard from you since so long that we judge you must have left England and returned to the better side of the Atlantic, and I at least find it quite a matter of course that for a series of months you should be left to enjoy undisturbed by any European intrusion, the new scenes, the freshness and neatness of everything around you. It must have been as if you had woke up from an unpleasant dream when all on a sudden you descried the snow white sail of the first american pilotboat heaving gracefully and coquettishly in sight, bidding you welcometo your glorious home, the great Republic __ I was just about to add "of the West" - but my good genius bid me stop. Is there any other great Republic either in the East or in the North as in the South? There are caricatures of it, sham republics, but not one is a real republic like that "where the Star spangled banner in triumph doth wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"! I long to see the land of my predilection once more but am afraid that not even on the occasion of the great centennial Jubilee in two years I shall be able to afford to go there. If I should be able to go I think Mr. Bergmann would make up his mind to accompany me. Poor Mr. Bergmann had to undergo some little trials lately on the occasion of the elections to the "Reichstag" (house of representatives in Berlin) He accepted the candidateship of the moderate party, i.e. the party which accepts the accomplished fact of the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and tries to make the best of it. Every man of common sense ought to belong to that party but very few [Alsatians] Strasburgers have common and still less political sense and in consequence they were for making a protestation against the long ago accomplished fact of the annexation and sent representatives that would merely protest against the treaty of peace of Frankfort a/M and then leave the Reichstag. M. Bergmann was called a traitor and indeed every Reichenweier (Alsace) Aug. 23d, 1877. [*13*] TK Dear Miss Barton, The receipt of the Dansville Advertiser of June 7th of this year was a very agreeable surprise to me, my wife and children, and we all thank you very much for your kind attention in sending us this sign of life. I was most happy also to see that the Americans have not forgotten as indeed it is impossible that they ever will - the noble services you rendered them during the great war of the Rebellion by alleviating the pains and sorrows of the brave soldiers "who fought and bled" for freedom'sfor the Union's, and for humanity's sake. - Neither have the people of our good, old "one horse city" lost the remembrance of your generous efforts to occupy and relieve the poor sufferers from the bombardment and often, as I walk through the streets I am accosted by persons who ask me whether I have any news of you. Only a very short time ago Miss Schaaff requested me to send you her love and respects. The eldest daughter of Mr. Schweickard, your cutter, gives piano lessons to two of my girls and she often inquires after you. My elder children have, of course, quite a vivid remembrance of you which is naturally kept up by the beautiful picture book which is still a source of great pleasure to them all. - Mr. Gust. Bergmann, who has most likely already acknowledged the receipt of your paper, was like myself at a loss whereto to address our letters - whether to Dansville or to New England Village, Grafton, Mass. I thought you had gone to Dansville for the celebration of the Memorial Day only and so thought he and as he did not know where your actual residence was he requested me to give it to him and I suppose he has written to you already. - I should have done so too had it not been for our going just to the country to spend the vacations of the children. We are at Reichenweier, 30 miles S.W. of Strasburg. It is nicely situated atfoot of forest covered mountains; the front and side hills however are vineyards that produce excellent wine. There are several old, ruined castles in the vicinity which we reach through shady walks over the mountains and through the picturesque and pleasant valleys. Though from the active part you took in the Memorial Day exercises I may infer that your state of health must be very good indeed yet it would give me the greatest pleasure to have it affirmed by yourself. Do please favor us therefore with a few lines Your great heart is so full of good and cheering thoughts and the words flow so readily from your lips and your pen that it costs you no effort at all. - You are most likely still in correspondence with our mutual friend Mr. D. Atwater; I have no idea of his whereabouts; please remember me very kindly to him. Hoping that you will let us hear from you very soon and with best love from my wife & children, I am, as ever, very sincerely yours No 25, rue du Vieux marché aux vins Theodore Krüger 25 rue due Vieux marché aux vins. Strasbourg (Alsace) July 21st 1879. [*7 Bull-Run Theodore Kruger*] TK Dear Miss Barton, Many, many thanks for your very kind remembrance of your old friends on the worse side of the Atlantic! - The "Memorial Day" Paper which you were good enough to forward was received in due time but whilst I was absent from home. This accounts for my acknowledging its receipt at so late a date. The glorious and eloquent words that have flowed so beautifully from your lips have indeed come from the innermost wellspring of your generous and noble heart andtherefore could not fail to strike home to the heart of the hearers as well as of the readers. It was a very kind and polite attention which we highly appreciate; it was not merely a sign of life but a powerful evidence that you are strong and quite well - up and doing -. As I dated these few lines it struck me that it was the anniversary of the unfortunate first battle of Bull Run, when I stood with my regiment (Col. Miles' division) under a burning sun, from 6 o'clock in the morning until next morning at four on the heights of Centreville. We saw the battle rage before us and were chafing to have a hand in it too but were obliged to remain mere lookers on. We saw our troops gaining ground but we saw also - what, most likely, McDowell did not - an ominous cloud of dust in the Southwest coming nearer and nearer. - At about three o'cl. P.M. Heintzelmann's division seemed to gain ground. Reports reached us that the battle was won and the sky was rent by our hurrahs. But alas! the cloud, in the shape of 5000 rebels under Johnston, whom Gen. Patterson was to have detained and prevented from joining Beauregard had slipped through and now broke upon our exhausted and hungry boys and got them into disorder. Behind them, too near the battlefield were stationed wagonsof all sorts this increased the confusion. It grew into a panic and the whole - a few hours before so brilliant, hopeful and enthusiastic army, ran past before us and halted only behind the heights of Centreville. On those heights we were standing - as in the morning - four intact regiments - forgotten, most likely by MacDowell; and our commander, Col. Miles, intoxicated, sympathizing with the rebels, too glad perhaps not to be ordered to march to the front. Major Geo. E. Waring, Lieut. J. C. Rice (afterwards Col. of the 44th N.Y. Vols. and then general) and myself were sitting on a fence looking at the whole Sad skedaddle. We touched our caps to Col. Hunter who passed before us in a carriage, he was wounded and pale as death. We accounted this for the confusion and the panic because those poor fellows were mere raw recruits that had never seen the fire, but I have years afterwards seen a similar confusion and a worse demoralisation - that of the french regular troops - after the battle of Wörth on the 6th of August 1870. But please do excuse this long reminiscential digression and do let us hear from you soon again - if only by a few words - a postal card merely. Mr. Bergmann told me that he had already written to you. You are always the subject of our conversation whenever we meet. The children (the elder ones) recollect you quite vividly and the handsome picture book you gave them affords them still the greatest pleasure. When shall I see America and my American friends again? Well, accept a good, hearty shake of hands across Ocean and Continent. My wife joins me in highest regards to you. Yours very respectfully & truly Theodore Krüger address. When I write to him, it is: Poste restante Lausanne (Vaud) I see by the papers that the Convention opened on the first of this month and I trust the different meetings will not fatigue you too much but rather that your stay in Switzerland will strengthen your health. Hoping to see you soon I conclude with best regards and love from us all yours truly Theodore Krüger Please address as usual: 25, rue de Vieux marché aux vins, Strasbourg (Alsace,) TK Hohwald, Alsace, Sept. 5th 1884 My dear Miss Barton, Your kind letter of August 11th reached me a few days later than it would have if I had been at home. We spend the childrens' vacations in the mountains and this occasioned the delayelse I should have replied sooner to express the great pleasure we all feel at the prospect of seeing you soon. It was really a great and most pleasant surprise to hear of your coming once more to Europe, not only as Delegate to the Red Cross Convention but also to see your old friends. We shall go back to Strasburg to day week Mr. G. Bergmann, too, will be very happy to see you. You have perhaps written also to Mr. Rod. Rhyner who will certainly be most glad to have an opportunity to shake hands with you. If you have not written you might perhaps let him know that you are in Geneva. He lives in Lausanne during the Summer months but I do not know his exact Strasburg (Alsace) Nov. 8th 1884. We were quite glad to receive your card of 6th inst. and hear with pleasure that you are quite well and enjoyed your visit to the great Metropolis of England. All of us join in best wishes for fair wind and weather and a pleasant trip across the Atlantic and hope something will turn up to bring you soon again to our poor old Strasburg. Very truly yours Theodore KrugerWELTPOSTVEREIN. (UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE.) POSTKARTE AUS DEUTSCHLAND. (ALLEMAGNE.) DEUTSCHE RICHE POST 10 PFENNIG To Miss Clara Barton On Board Steamship "City of Chester" (Capt. Condron) (Inman Line) Liverpool. England. [*No Reply on Board Steamer Rec. on deck Nov 11 84*] [*T Kruger 20 Gen Conv*] [*unpoled[?]*] [*cc*] more appropriate to his aspirations - may I never forget that a woman's life; to make the others happy, is full of submission and of sacrifice! A few weeks after my father's death, we lost the only sister of my husband, who during a few months, had suffered terribly, so that we but thanked God for her delivery. Eveline, my oldest daughter never fatigued in staying with her almost day and night, so that I began to fear for her health; but the daily walks in the fresh air my husband makes with her, her youth, and now a stay of a few weeks at my fathers old country house in the Robertsau not to speak of that stay we intend to make, during the children's vacations, in the Switzerland, all that, I hope, will soon put her all right again. The other Strasburg, Mai 11th 1886 Dear Miss Barton Really, you must think me the most ungrateful being on earth, not to have thanked you before for the kind attention you had of sending such nice New Year greetings to us and the children. But if you could look into the very depth of my heart, you would not judge me wrongly and see how warmly it beats for you, and how happy your friendship makes me. A great change has taken place in our every day's life since that time, and I hope you will excuse my long silence in giving you our most affectionate regards and the children want to be kindly remembered by you. Yours very truly F. Krüger. 2) children are quite well and begin to be no children any more. Sometimes when I look at them, who are now still all around me, I ask myself how it will be in a few years, and in which different part of the world, perhaps each of them, is to be thrown. When, in such moments, a dark apprehension about their future sometimes comes over me, I take my refuge to God, who surely will assign to each one his place and not allow that one of them shall be lost for ever. And now, my dear friend - allow that I give you this name - I am almost at the end of my letter and have not yet asked about you, your health, your doings, and so many things I would like to know about you. Excuse that seemingand attribute it only to the different duties and manyfold occupations which the death of our dear[s] ones claim of us. My good father, whom I loved so dearly and for whom I would have made every sacrifice, is no more, as you know probably through the „lettre de faire part" we sent you in the beginning of March. Without pain, nor trouble, he was taken away during his sleep; the evening before, we all had spent with him, little thinking that it would be the last time we shook hands with him. How much I miss him and what a void he left to me who never had, so to say, quitted him, I need not tell you: he had always been so good and full of attentions to me, that I could hardly realize he was no more. - Many, many times since, dear Miss Barton, I recalled in my mind the conversation I had with you, when I saw you last, and the confession I made you then. Knowing the kind interest you always showed me, I let you see then in the interior of my heart which was too often divided between the feelings I owed to my aged father, and those, perhaps more legitimate, my husband had a right to claim from me. The situation is changed now, and - may I confess it to you? - if something could reconcile me with the great loss I endured, it was the idea that nothing now stands between me and my duties as wife and mother. May I always do what that great privilege requires of me! Whatever the future will bring us - and sometimes I think [he] it may bring to my husband still a life neglect, and show me your pardon in writing soon to me (if your numerous occupations allow it to you) about all of you I am anxious to know. When shall we [will] have the pleasure of seeing you again in poor, old Strasburg? How happy we would be to receive your dear visit! How much would I like to talk to you about yourself first, and then about so many other things concerning ourselves. Most likely we are going to move from our house where I lived since my childhood; it has been sold, and we do not know now where we are going to live; it is not a little thing to find here what we just want. Now, good bye, dear Miss Barton, my husband joins meand this accounts for the long time it takes us to get finally settled. I am afraid my hurried note will reach you only to morrow morning. Just now the upholsterer is coming again to take the measure for curtains. I am glad he did not come sooner as he had promised else I should not have been to finish yet. In the hope of hearing soon of your decision or of the train which will bring you to our city and with best regards to Dr. Hubbell I am Yours very sincerely Theodore Krüger Best love from my wife - Strasburg, Oct. 26th 1886. 8, Schiller Str. Dear Miss Barton, Your letter came to hand last night at eight, and we are all happy at the prospect of seeing you and Dr. Hubbell soon again. Please to let me know the train by which you will arrive here so that I may meet you at the Depôt. Concerning a nice, quiet and less expensive hôtel than the "National" the hôtel de France, central, is quiet and very good surroundings, would perhaps do; or the hotel Rebstock, central, but in the Langstrasse, the longest street in the city but busy, comparatively narrow andall your business there and say "good bye" to your many friends there - then, if you wish, I cold manage to go to Carlsruhe next Monday. In Carlsruhe the Erbprinz hotel, in the Kaiserstrasse, is very central and near the Post office. It is an old hotel, formerly the first, perhaps cheaper but anyhow more conveniently situated than the Victoria. It was my intention to write these lines early in the morning but was prevented by the "Dienstmann coming to help me to fix numbers of things. It is as said at first when my wife rented the house - too small- I find hardly a place for all our furniture & the many old things one has in an old family not very nice - I am afraid you would not like it. Then there is the hôtel de l'Europe, very central, near the first mentioned hôtel de France, only it is a large hotel, yet comparatively quiet. If you do not object to a boarding house, Mrs. Roether's would perhaps suit you. I recommended it to Miss Chevalier, Professor and Doctor of Medicine in New York. She boarded there over six months and was quite pleased. It is in the opposite direction from the RRd Depot nearer to where we live now than the other hotels; not very far from Mr. Bergmann's. However if it is more convenient to you to go to Carlsruhe now, to settle [*Mr Krüger Gives Hotels - wants to know when we come*] [*R Oct 27 1887 " 29 " *] STRASSBURG 1 26 10 87 4-5 N*] Miss Clara Barton St. Petersburgh Hotel Baden Baden Hohwald, near Barr, (Alsace) Aug. 18th 1887. Dear Miss Barton, What a pleasant surprise when last night at half past nine o'clock the postman handed me a letter on the address of which I at once recognized your handwriting. Now that really nice and welcome after such a long, very long, too long silence. But my flesh began to creep somewhat when I began to catch sight of my appointment as Delegate to the Carlsruhe Conference. Now, you who know me - who know that I cannot say three words nicely and fluently when speaking to only one person even, much less when doing so to a number of persons,- you who know my awkwardness and diffidence, my most complete lack of any kind of talent whatsoever - how can you recommend and propose me. My American feeling I do not deny, - if that were a sufficient title or rather if [K]rüger TK BADEN [*M Kruger - Oct 27- 87 gives Hotels - wants to meet us at train*] it could redeem my deficiencies I could accept boldly, joyfully and with the greatest pleasure the noble task for which you enlist me, but as it is - I can only do so with many misgivings and much hesitancy. I thank you nevertheless for your most kind and friendly remembrance and recommendation; you will even notice, on reading my letter to Dr. Hubbell that I am resolved to make a powerful effort, to try my best and lay all the responsibility on your shoulders! - You will see by the superscription that we are already in the country - in our own castle crowned hills and richly wooded mountains, in the Vosges, in Alsace. Our school vacations are from beginning of August to 16th of September so that if no untoward event occurs nothing will prevent me to be at the disposal of you and your party after that date. When you arrive in Europe please let me know by sending word to the same address as usual, viz.: No 25, rue du Vieux marché aux vins, Strasbourg, Alsace. If only you could be with us here, it is one of the finest parts of Alsace and we have more rooms and even more room also than in town. We hired half of the house for two months and keep house. I have notified you towards the end of last year of my appointment as Vice Consul in Kehl, but you have either not received my note or in your manifold occupations you may have forgotten it - for I see I am named Ex Vice Consul in the Credential you sent me. Last December a new Consul came to Kehl in the place of Mr. Frank W. Ballou, of Lockport, N.Y. - a Colonel Edmund Johnson, late Consul at Pictou (Nova Scotia). He has received several severe wounds in the war of the Rebellion, some of which causehim much suffering still. He was for some time Provost Marshall General of Georgia. His wife, a Canadian by birth, is the sister of the wife of Prince Salm Salm, who served also as Major - if I am right - in the northern army during the American war. After that he joined Maximilian in Mexico, who was a friend of his, was like him to be shot; but got out the bad scrape by the intervention of the American Minister - went home again to Prussia and was finally killed by a french bullet in the battle of Gravelotte, near Metz, in 1870. But now I must conclude - they all wait for me to go with them on an excursion to a forester's house on a mountain; and by the by, this forester is also an old American soldier, a corporal who has received a gunshot in his right arm in Virginia - I forget in which battle - and gets a pension of eight Dollars a month. We all hope you will safely reach our old European continent without any unpleasant incidents and my wife and children wish me to send their best love to you. Hoping to see you very soon I am as ever with best respects Yours Sincerely Theodore K[rüger] Hohwald, (Alsace) Aug. 18th, 1887. Dr. J.B. Hubbell, Secretary of the American National Association of the Red Cross, Washington D.C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed letter of 1st inst. and also of the enclosed Commission informing me of my appointment by the American National Association of the Red Cross as Honorary Member and Delegate to the Fourth International Conference to be held at Carlsruhe. If my good will to render myself useful to the best of my abilities will be indulgently considered as partially covering my utter want, not only of thegift of speech but also of the other talents required for such a service, I place myself - though with hesitancy - at the disposal of the American Association. Please therefore to be my interpreter for expressing my most sincere thanks to the Association and especially also to its Honorable President for her kind recommendation. Very respectfully yours Theodore Krüger Vice Consul of the United States of America for Baden & Alsace Lorraine at Kehl (Baden) near Strasburg. [*Rcd Carlsruhe*] [*Mr. Krüger accepts appointment of delegate to Conference*] [*18*] [*Ford?*] [*20 Conference '87*] WASH. D.C. FORWARDED SEP 6 1 30 PM 8 H[OHWA]LD 20 8 87 7 8 V HO[HWALD] 20 PFENNIG 20 Miss Clara Barton, President of the American National Association of the Red Cross. Carlsruhe Germany Europe [Washington, D.C.] U.S. of America KARLSRUHE (BADEN) [?] 21 [?] 87 10 . 11V. CAR[RIER] [?] 9A NEW YORK SEP 6 12 PM WAS[HING]TO[N] PAID [KARLSRU]HE (BADEN) [?] [?] 87 10 . 11V. M Krüger R a Carlsruhe Sept 22. 1887 accepts nomination to Conference No. 8, Schiller str. Strasburg (Alsace) Oct. 13th, 1887. Dear Miss Barton A few words only in great haste. Your kind letter of 01 inst. came to hand only late this evening, the reason of which is that it was addressed to the Consulate at Kehl. From there it was sent to the Vieux marché au vins, and at last to our new house, 8 Schiller str. Had it been directed to our old house it would have been sent immediately to the new place and I should have got it twenty four hours sooner. We are far from being settled yet though we were in the midst of moving when I arrived from Carlsruhe. There is an accumulation of furniture and old things in our old families which makes moving an exceedingly troublesome affair. Hardly anything is in its place yet and the workmen are still busy in the house. To morrow I have to get the ironbottle safes from the old house, they are fastened with iron staples to the cellar walls and the workmen have to work hard to unfasten them and then they have to be fixed to the walls of the new cellar again in the same way. This and many other works have to be presided over and attended to my myself personally. I have a pretty large correspondence to attend to and yet I ought to be with the workmen. Still, if you think I may be of some little aid to you, I hope to be able to manage to go to Carlsruhe Monday or Tuesday. I shall of course drop you a line before I start from here. My books, papers &c have to wait till they are put in their respective places until I am back. I am exceedingly sorry to hear Dr. Hubbell is not quite well and still suffering from his boil. I should think if he had taken the proper homeopathic remedies it would be open before this. Please remember me kindly to him and also to Dr. Hall when you write to her. I had a notion you were already in Berlin. In hopes to see you soon again and with best love from my wife & children I am ever yours very sincerely Theodore Krugerwill not prevent you from coming to our City. I saw Mr. Bergmann last evening on coming from the Hôtel National where I had been to enquire after you. I think you must have a nice time to day; the Grand Duchess is so amiable and genial in her ways and manners with strangers. I am very glad to hear Dr. Hubbell is better and hope his boil is open by this time. In a similar case I should have taken at first Arnica with Hepar Sulph. alternately every two hours. Bellad. when the boil get red, inflamed and painful. Then Hepar sulph. and Mercury alternately. If however the opening delays and the boil gets blueish Lachesis is to be taken alternately with the two former remedies. Sometimes also Apis with the three former. There is a very good American salve for boils &c Dally's Pain Extractor; the boil gets mature but without giving pain. It may be had in Paris in American Drug Stores, in the neighborhood of rue royale, in the rue St Honoré. Hoping to see you soon and with best love from my wife, Ever yours sincerely Theodore Krüger No. 8 Schiller str. Strasburg, Oct. 18th 1887. Dear Miss Barton, Day before yesterday, Sunday a little before nine o'cl. in the evening we received your telegram and were very happy at the prospect of seeing you the following day. On Monday morning your letter of Sunday morning came - there being no distribution on Sunday after eight o'cl. A.M. Last night your card of Monday morning came to hand and I hope you as well as Dr. Hubbellwill enjoy your interview with the Emperor. I had made arrangements to go to Carlsruhe next Wednesday. In my last letter to you I wrote that I should start for your headquarters on Monday or Tuesday. But on Saturday after dinner, the Consul, after trying to find my new place for two hours, carried me right off to Kehl, then back to Strasburg and off again to some mountain village in Lorraine where, on behalf of the Superior Court of Monterey, California, I had to take the deposition of five witnesses. I came back to Strasburg just an hour before your telegram was handed to me. We are far from being settled but nevertheless I can manage to be in Carlsruhe whenever it suits your convenience. The worst is over - things have only to be put in their right places - but those right places are not always easily found. We all hope your visit to Baden[*Mr. Kruger - receives telegram & letter from Carlsruhe -*] [*Baden R Oct ? 1887 " 20 " *] [*Hotel Petersburg?*] Miss Clara Barton Victoria Hotel [Carlsruhe] (Baden) 8, Schillerstrasse Strasburg, Oct. 20th, 1887. Dear Miss Barton, A few words only to acknowledge your favor of 19th inst. by which I see you have had a nice time in Baden. I am glad Dr. Hubbell is better too. I know the St Petersburg Hotel - it is pleasantly situated. Since you find the Victoria rather expensive why don't you change. There are many nice small hotels in Carlsruhe in which you would perhaps[Mr Bergmann?] London in London [Kruger?] [family?]. BADEN-BADEN 90 4-5N. Mary L. Barton Baden Oct. 21. 1887 letts of Min McK. Alfred Hots[?] Tommy[?] KARLSRUHE (BADEN) 1. 18/ 0 87 3-4N feel more comfortable than in the Victoria. You will most likely remain in Baden to the end of this week. Next week, if you think I can be useful to you, I will make such arrangements as will enable me to leave. I have not been able yet to arrange my study, books and everything are still lying on the floor, to morrow the upholsterer is to come and I have to be at home [here] of course. We have a deal of trouble to place our furniture. 'Tis a terrible thing to move. Do let me hear from you very soon. I am called away - I ought to be able to double myself Love from all. Yours very sincerely Th. Kruger Best regards to Dr. Hubbell -[*R Oct 21 87 " 25*] [*Theo. Kruger - Strasburg told him we were coming to strasbur this week -*] STRA 10 Pfenning 10 10-11V Miss Clara Barton Hôtel St Petersbourg Baden-Baden CASINO COMMERCIAL et LITTÉRAIRE Strasbourg, le 9 Novembre 1887 half past two, P.M. Dear Miss Barton, After seeing you off I went straight home and was hardly through with my dinner when the following telegramme came: "Baden Schloss : Mr. Pendleton arrived Berlin. Tell me when you leave. Many messages. Louise." I went to town again immediately and cabled to the Grand Duchess that you had started for Berlin at noon. I write this in greatest haste at my club so that you may get it the first thing after your arrival in Berlin. With best wishes for a very pleasant stay there and with best regards to you and to Dr Hubbell Yours very Sincerely Theodore Krüger I did not expect to write to you so soon.BADEN-BADEN 1. 21 10 87 4-5N Mr. Kruger - Oct. 21 - 1887 [*93.] [*R Nov. 10 1887 " " *] [*Mr Krüger*] CASINO COMMERCIAL et LITTÉRAIRE STRASBOURG Miss Clara Barton Hôtel du Nord Berlin. W.64. 10 11 IV8. Schiller str. Strasburg (Alsace) Nov. 10th 1887. Dear Miss Barton, Enclosed, please receive the translation of "your remarks". I shall begin at once the translation of them into French and think they will be ready when you come back. You have received, most likely, my note of yesterday concerning a telegramme from the Grand Duchess which I answered. I ordered the boots yesterday and recommended to Borzer[?] to make them exactly like the last ones and especially not to make them any tighter across the Large joint. The weather is splendid here and for both your sakes I trust it will be so in Berlin. My wife and daughters send their love. Please give best regards to Dr. Hubbell. Ever happy to serve you Theodore Kruger [*93*] [*R Nov 11 10 am " " " *] Theo Krüger - A translation of my remarks on conference prepared for the c[ommittee?] of Berlin - STRASB 20 Pfenning 20 11-12 Miss Clara Barton Hôtel du Nord Berlin W. Deutschland. - Allemagne. [*20*] AMBULANT 26.XI.87 No + 44A STRASSBURG LEI[?] Postkarte. Carte postale. Beltpostverein. - Union postale universelle. Miss Clara Barton Hôtel garni de la Poste Genève - (Suisse) [*Mr. Krüger - Sends spectacles & fur trimming [found?] Hotel De France - Geneva R Nov [?] 87 Ansd [dec ?*] Rue fur die [?] Côté réservé à l'ádresse. Deutschland. - Allemagne. AM[...?] [?]8.XI.87 11 No. + 4[?] Postkarte. Carte postale. Beltpostverein. - Union postale universelle. Miss Clara Barton Hôtel garni de la Poste Genève - (Suisse -) [*Mr. Krüger - Theo Kruger Rue fur die [?] Côté réservé à ládresse. R Nov 29 - 1887 Ansd directly*]BERLIN 64 [?] 87 8-9 Strasburg, Nov. 28. 1887. Dear Miss Barton & Dr Hubbell - Your cards were duly received and mailed the same morning. We are glad to hear you are comfortably settled in your hotel and that you found everything according to your wishes. Though I am exceedingly busy I miss you and Dr Hubbell very much and would much rather go round shopping with you and talking with you than putting my things in order &c. I cannot express how much I wish I were free enough to spend several months with you in this land of my predilection on the better side of the Atlantic. When shall my wish ever be realized? Mr. Rhyner's address is No 38, rue Raynouard Passy, Paris. If you are going to stay at the hôtel du Louvre, rue de Rivoli, you take the Tramway a few steps from the Hotel at the Station du Louvre the Tram takes you along the Jardin des Tuileries, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs Elysées, through the Trocadero. At the Trocadero you say to the Conducteur: "Je voudrais descendre au coin de la rue Raynouard, you leave the cars and will have no trouble in finding No 38. Please do not forget to remember me very kindly to him and to his daughter, Mrs. Valentinois. Yesterday morning I received a letter from Dr. L. M. Hall, dated Brooklyn. The above Tramway line is called: Ligne J, Louvre à Passy. Much love from us all Theodore Kruger Strasburg, Nov. 25th 1887 - Your spectacles with the fur trimming which you left at the Hotel de France, I have forwarded per "colis postal" to the Hotel garni de la Poste, Geneva, and you will receive it in due time, I hope. A letter for you from Washington, I dispatched to Dr Appia, not being sure whether you would be in Geneva already when it got there, and afraid you might have left Mulhausen when I mailed it. I write in haste - in a store in town - I have a great deal to do now; work has accumulated and am therefore much afraid I shall not be able to accept your exceedingly kind invitation this winter. Such a good fortune I shall never have again - Please remember me kindly to Dr Hubbell and believe me ever - with much love from us all - Yours very sincerely Theodore KrügerStrasburg, Nov. 29. 1887. Dear Miss Barton, Your spectacles, the fur trimming, and my yesterday's postal card you have undoubtedly received - On the latter I gave you Mr. Rhyner's address: No 38, rue Raynouard, Passy - Paris, and explanations how to reach him by the tramway line Louvre to Passy. I write in greatest haste for I want to mail the translations enclosed herewith, so that you may get it before you leave Geneva. Love from all and best regards to Dr Hubbell. Very sincerely Theodore Krüger STRASBU[RG] Miss Clara Barton [*28*] Hôtel garni de la Poste Genève - Suisse. [*Mr Krüger Theo Kruger R Nov. 29 1887 Geneva Duly answered CB.*] Le Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers: rue St. Martin, Square des Arts et Métiers, Machinery Tools; all sorts of agricultural & industrial machines - very interesting. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10 to 4. Hotel des Invalides = To see the Tomb of Napoleon the first, go in by the Place Vauban behind the Hotel des Invalides. Tuesday & Thursday, 12-4, are the best days - Musée d'Artillerie, very interesting, 12 to 3. Le Trocadéro, museum, aquarium &c every day. Jardin des Plantes, from 11 to 3 every day - The closed parts are shown to strangers with passport. Jardin d'Acclimatation: Principal entrance near Porte Maillot - Miniature tramway takes you from there to the gardens - Sundays & holidays -, 50 centímes other days - 1 franc. Take a walk through the Grands magasins du Louvre and through the Bon Marché (rue du Bac) you need not buy anything, the entrance is free. You might take either a déjeuner at 12 or a dîner, from 5 to 7 o'cl. at one of the etablissements Duval the most interesting perhaps and quite near you, is No 6, rue Montesquieu, fine entrance in Alhambra style. I really wish I could run up to Paris and show you all these fine sights - But now good bye Best love from us all - Theodore Krüger Strasburg, Dec. 6th 1887 Dear Miss Barton, Your welcome letter of third inst. has come to hand and I am so glad you are pleased with the hotel and with your stay in Paris, but sorry you did not find Mr. Rhyner. He makes a rather long stay in the country and suppose he has a charming villa in the neighborhood of Interlaken. Dr. Hubbell as well as yourself must have found it very interesting to walk round the streets before the election of the new President, Mr. Sadi Carnot. I wish I could have been thereAMBULANT 29.XI.87. 9 No + 44A GEN[?] 30X187 FACTEURE Brun fumee L'améthyste assortir magasin with you. I enjoy such sights so much. Although the reasonable republicans would have preferred Ferry who is a "smarter" and more energetic man yet Mr. Carnot will do very well. He is of an old republican family, very rich and strictly honest. It is the honesty which he displayed when he was Secretary of the Treasury (Ministre des finances) which caused him to be candidate to the Presidency. He is a quiet and plain man, rather cold and of [a] melancholy looks. I will mark in haste some of the principal sights which you might show Dr. Hubbell: Musée du Louvre: open every day, except Mondays, from 10 to 4. Musée de Versailles: every day from 11 to 4, except Mondays. Take RRd to Versailles (rive droite, (depot) gare St. Lazare, or rive gauche, gare Montparnasse. Distance about 12 miles - Musée du Luxembourg: Paintings of modern artists. From 10 to 4, except Mondays Musée de Cluny: open to the public only Sundays and holidays from 11 to 4 - But Strangers are admitted every day, except Mondays, by showing their passport or their card. Le Musée d'histoire naturelle, d'anatomie d'anthropologie &c in the Jardin des Plantes. Open Tuesday & Thursday from 2 to 5 - and Sundays from noon to 4 o'cl.[*114*] Miss Clara Barton Hotel du Louvre Rue de Rivoli Paris. France. [*Mr. Krüger R Dec 7 - 1887 Paris Duly answered. C.B.*] [*M. Theo Kruger Strasburg Seeing Páris*] [*Krüger*] [*40*] #177, Pine Street Lockport (N.Y.) Sept. 30th. 1896 Miss Clara Barton President of the American Association of the Red Cross Washington (D.C.) My dear Miss Barton, Excuse please the liberty I take in addressing this to you but the sincere friendship and interest you have shown to my parents and my family during so many years authorize me to do it. Having seen my father while travelling through Strasburg you learned of my being in the United States. He certainly told you that I intended to settle here if a business opportunity would be given to me. I wrote about it to all my acquaintances but until now not any position has been presented to me. I am 25 years old, have a high-school education, was studying during[PA]RIS | 7 DEC 87 POSTE RESTANTE Theodore Kruger Dec 7 - 1887 Paris - Armin L. Kruger Sept 30 1896 o o wants a job.- 2 - one year in a German University and am thoroughly able to talk and correspond in French, German and English. The principal object of my writing is to ask you if you could be of any assistance to me in trying to get a place as foreign correspondent, secretary or interpreter in the American Association of the Red Cross or among your acquaintances. You are so well known not only in the United States but in every part of the world, that a recommendation from you would be the most powerful one I could have. My father as myself would be very grateful to you. I will do all I can to give satisfaction and do honor to you and my family. Pray accept the assurance of my highest esteem and believe me Yours respectfully Armin Lincoln Krüger [*Aus. p. 59 - P. Cuba.*] 1, rue St.-Thomas Strasbourg (Alsace.) September 27, 1897. Miss Clara Barton President of the American National Red Cross Association. Vienna. Dear Miss Barton, Many thanks for the "Washington Times" which I received day before yesterday, and saw with great pleasure that you were attending the International Conference of the Red Cross at Vienna. But as the Conference, according to the "Washington Times" began already at the 20th of this month, I am much afraid my note will not reach you in timeespecially, since not knowing your address, unavoidable delay will be caused by its passing through the American Consulate, and the Conference having most likely already closed its sessions and you are perhaps in parts unknown at the Consulate? I am glad to see that you are accompanied by Mr. George H. Pullman and Dr Hubbell and beg you will tender them my highest regards. I do hope and so does my wife and daughters, that you will pass through Strasburg and manage to stay at least a day or two and let me know when, so that I may meet you at the R.Rd Depot when you arrive, and be with you as much as possible during your stay in our City. Being under doubts whether this hurried note will get into your hands I shall conclude and hurry to the Post Office. Even if it should not reach you I hope nevertheless that after having paid your usual visit to the Grand Duchess of Baden you will favor us with a few hours at least before you start for Paris and home. The very idea of this hope is becalming and quieting to me, and I do trust that you and your dear companions will realize this plan. Do accept from us all our best and most affectionate regards and believe me ever yours most sincerely Theodore KrügerTheodore Krüger belated letter written Sept -------------- -98 ans'd. May 9 [*Kruger Strassburg*] Glen Echo, Maryland. January 18, 1902. Monsieur Theodore Kruger and Madam Kruger, 1 Rue St. Thomas, Strasburg, Germany. My dear old time friends: In going over some waiting letters, I find the notice from October 15th, 1901, of the marriage of your daughter, Gerda. The reminiscences flock apace and [I] lay down the sheet with "and so they go". Your family of beautiful little children, how well I remember then, twenty-five years ago and more that the little walk out of them was the admiration of every passer by. I remember the little one who, in her illness of some passing disease, would not keep her own personality, but assumed mine, and during her whole illness said she was Clara Barton. All these little memories come flocking, and the kindness, brotherly and sisterly, that I have always received at your hands in that far away foreign country, come back to me very tenderly and gratefully. I have no thought but that every one of those children has done as well in the world as you could have wished, and that you are now enjoying them with a parental pride that gladdens your hearts day by day. I am glad that we came into each others lives, and were made to know each other and I hope that even yet there is another meeting for us on this side. Let us continue then to hope than, and sometimes let us hear of each other. With love all of the children who are with you, I remain, Yours devotedly, Clara Barton.so many, many years, whilst, I am sure, you needed now a well deserved rest after all you have done. But I understand that, as long as you see the sufferings of your fellow creatures, it is a necessity for you to rescue them, and I can imagine your state of mind not to be able to help the poor Boërs in their dreadful, unhappy conditions. When will this long and terrible war come at last to an end!? My husband joins me in sending you our most affectionate regards; as you see by the heading of my letter we are again for some time in this fine part of Italy to escape the disagreable damp cold of our country. How happy should we be if once in the years to come - if God allows us a longer life - we could have the great pleasure of meeting you in one of those sunny places of this beautiful country! Miriam wants me to be kindly remembered by you and sends you her best love! Yours devotedly F. Krüger. [*33 Mrs Kruger no immediate reply - recd. Feb 22 1902*] Rapallo - Ligure (Italia) 2, via Avenaggi Febry 7th 1902 My dear Miss Barton, It would not be right of me if I waited any longer to acknowledge your kind letter and to thank you very heartily for it, as well as for the report of the Red Cross Society you sent us lately. Need I tell you the pleasure we had in beholding again the beloved features, as they are now, of the far away dear friend, whom we learned to know and to love so many years ago? - Often, when I pass over in my memory, the dreary consequences which the terrible war of 1870 had for us, I can but rejoice in thinking that at least it brought us one Will you please excuse my bad english, as I forget absolutely the little good one I knowwhich we never will regret as we owe it the great pleasure of having made, at that time, your acquaintance. As it seems, you also have not forgotten one or the other little incident of those days, and the fact that you speak in your letter of our children, who were so fond of you, brings back to my memory a world of sweet reminiscences. Often I regret that happy old time when we had them all around us, whilst now! . . . Two of our dearest ones - you know - those perhaps we were most proud of and on whom we had founded most hopes for the future, have been taken away from us in the dreadful circumstances you remember perhaps; three others are on foreign continents where their activity called them, - so we were very happy that at least one of our daughters, Gerda could stay in Strasburg after her marriage. Besides that we have with us Miriam who surrounds her getting old, but, thanks to God, still quite healthy parents, with her loving and devoted affection. - Sometimes, though, she leaves us for a few months every year to help in the „Diaconese House" of the Strasburg, to nurse the sick ones, when help is wanting, and I believe it is the happiest part of the year for her, as her vacation is no doubt on this side. I even regret that for our sake she has renounced to follow the wish of her heart to become a diaconese - though she is very happy to be able to render herself useful at home. As you express the hope of meeting each other once again, we too wish and hope that it may be so very soon. We wonder how much you render yourself still useful for the benefit of others[*33 Krüger*] Strasburg, July 25th 1902 My dear Miss Barton, We were very much relieved and quite happy to hear that you arrived so well and have such a good time in Paris. Many thanks to have told us, as in thoughts we are with you quite often and like to think over the good moments we spent together. - Perhaps it interests you to hear that our visit did not come yet; she had announced herself for yesterday at 9 a/m. and whilst I was at the station a telegramme came to say she would only arrive on Saturday! I must say I was a little angry! - You most likely received the card I had received for you and sent to Paris; if I had known that you leave for Boulogne only Saturday I would have likewise sent you there a letter which arrived for you yesterday morning; not knowing the name of the ship you sail with I addressed it to SS . . . . leaving Boulogne for New York the 26th - I hope you will get it. - And now good bye my dear friend my husband and my daughters join me in wishing you once more a good journey; please believe me always Your's very affectionately F. KrügerKartenbrief [*70*] Un Miss Clara Barton Hôtel Scribe in Paris Wohnung Rue Scribe. (Straße und Haußnummer) STRASBURG[?] 25 [?] (ELS)[?] 10 [?] 10 [?]REICH STRASBURG[?] 25 [?] (ELS)[?][*24[?] 24 Conference at Petersburg Mrs. Theo. Kruger*] Glen Echo, Maryland, August 15, 1902. Mrs. Theodore Kruger, 1 Thomas Strasse, Strasburg, Alsace. My dear Mrs. Kruger: Being once more in my own home, I will not wait longer to tell you of my arrival and the good condition in which I found all my friends. Our voyage was phenomenally fine, not an hour of sickness on the part of any person on the ship that I knew of. We left Boulogne on the 27th of July and arrived in New York on the morning of the 6th of August. Mr. Tillinghast met me at Boulogne and made the voyage with me. We came home on the same day of our arrival in New York, found Dr. Hubbell well and my home in every way natural and comfortable as I had left it. I look back with great pleasure upon the week passed with you and Mr. Kruger. I cannot say how homelike it seemed to me and how glad I was of those few days with you both again. Nothing materially now has transpired in America, the summer has been very fine, only two or three days uncomfortably warm, and now it is cool like autumn. The little purse served me faithfully all the way over, and is among my choicest keepsakes. I suppose by this time Miriam is home with you, for which her father, at least, will be very glad. I remember that he was quite dissatisfied with her absence. Please tell Gerder that all the little things we did were satisfactory, I only wish we had done more. Living in the hope of some day seeing some of you, at least, on this side of the water and entertaining you in my home as cordially, if possible, as you entertained me in yours, I remain, dear Mrs. Kruger, Affectionately your friend, Clara Barton. number of strangers increases, not to speak of the numerous tourists and pilgrims who come daily to this picturesque place. - Gerda and her husband are with us also for some time, and we like our vacations of this year more than I can tell. The good news we have, thanks to God; from all our other children abroad add to the happiness a good deal, though for the moment I wait from day to day anxiously for a letter from Armin telling us the date of his and his wife's visit promised since long. - My husband and my daughters join me, my dear Miss Barton, in telling you once more how happy we have been to see you again after the long years of absence, and for my past especially I can tell you that I enjoyed your visit and the good talks we had together very, very much, and I hope that in a few years, if we live still, it might take place again. - I have with me here the nice souvenir you gave me and appreciate it in fact every day, first because it comes from you, and then because it renders me really the best services here especially. - With the kindest regards from us all, and a warm kiss besides from me Yours affectionately T. Krüger Ste Odile (Alsace) Aug. 25th 1902 My dear Miss Barton, In thoughts I have been with you so many times since you left us that I am quite ashamed not to have had earlier a little talk with you from far. My card which I sent you to Bologna on the steamship - of which unhappily I did not know the name - has reached you anyhow, I hope, and with my whole family I am anxious to hear whether the crossing has not been too unpleasant to you and how you have been since. I can understand that on returning home you have found a great many duties to fulfill and much writing to do after your long absence; so that you did not find time to write to all your friends yet you left in Europe. We were very happy to receive your letter from Paris telling us that you had reached it safely, and it was very kind to you to give us more particulars about your stay there, which I can understand, gave you so much pleasure. Nothing but old remembrances of old happy times which you lived over once more! Now you are again in your pretty comfortable home, and I suppose very glad to have a quiet rest after the long journey with all the fatigues it must have brought you. But how can I say such a thing! I ought to remember that dear Miss Barton does not know such a thing called fatigue, and I beg your pardon not to have remembered it! As for us we enjoy just now and since the beginning of this month our stay on this idyllic place in the midst of the most beautiful woods. The hotel here is held by the catholic sisters of the „Cross" and you ought to see how well they fulfill their duties, which are not little just now. The convent is the rendezvous of many french families especially, and every year the A few days ago I remembered all at once the name of the American Consul - of sad memory - during the war - Is it not Petard? Odilienberg. Aug. 29th 1902 - My letter which I wrote to you two days ago was hardly posted when the postman handed me your kind lines, which gave us all much pleasure the more so as we heard what exceptionaly good crossing you had and that you are again quite enjoying your dear old home. I can understand the happiness of your friends to have you with them again. - We still are here in this beautiful country, but next week we intend going home again and look forward with much joy to our children's visit from California. - With the hope of seeing you again, dear Miss Barton; in old, dear Europe and with the most affectionate regards from us all Your sincere friend T. K.Postkarte WASHINGTON, D.C. REC'D SEP 7 9-AM 1902 [*3*] 10 10 DEUTSCHES REICH 2-3N. Miss Clara Barton President of the American Association of the Red Cross Washington. D. C. No 947 T. Str. N. W. [*Princess Salm Salm Oct -17 - 1902*] [*Received Nov 1902 Mrs. Kruger - 33*] Strasburg, October 31th 1902 My dear Miss Barton, Surely you think I am the most ungrateful person on earth not to have thanked you yet for the great pleasure you made us in sending the fine views of Niagara Falls. Nothing could have caused me a more agreeable surprise, and my husband joins me in sending you our warmest thanks for it. In looking at the different sceneries of those beautiful falls I lived over once more the happy hours, when - nearly fo[u]rty years ago - on our wedding trip, we contemplated together that grand spectacle, which surpassed all I had ever seen. In looking at that booklet I associate now the dearfriend who sent it to us, and more than ever my thoughts stay with you, dear Miss Barton, recapitulating the different happy hours I spent with you. Especially your last dear visit is very often before me, and I must say that never before I enjoyed your dear company as much as this time. It comes most likely from the fact that I had you almost alone for myself this time, and that more than ever I could appreciate your kind and true friendship towards us. If I did not write before to acknowledge the receipt of your nice gift, it was surely not out of neglectfulness, but of absolute want of time. I can not tell you how these last weeks have been filled up by all sorts of things which prevented me from writing, especially we had a series of visits either for a day, or longer, and two days ago, only, a friend of my daughter Miriam left us who had been a fortnight with us. - It was a pleasure to see those two girls have a nice time together, and I envied their laughing and talking together, thinking that I for myself never had such a lively character being always of rather a sad disposition. I hope, dear Miss Barton, that you have been always quite well since we last heard of you, and that you enjoy your pleasant, comfortable home, not without helping though, wherever you can, to relieve those who want your precious aid. It must be fore you a sweet thought and a great satisfaction to look over your well employed life,full of self-abnegation, and to realize all the good you have done to your fellow-creatures, during the long years whilst you devoted yourself to them. My husband and my daughters join me, dear Miss Barton, to send our most affectionate regards to you, as for myself I kiss you with all my heart and beg you to believe me Your faith - and thankful friend F. Krüger.