London, 12 April 1895 
41 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Hermann, 

I have heard nothing further about the sherry since it was despatched." All 
I know is that immediately after the hard weather the two Cologne steamers 
Energie and Industrie were reported as having arrived here—departures are 
difficult to keep track of in the newspapers and I don’t therefore know 
whether both have sailed—and if so when. If the wine doesn’t turn up in the 
course of next week, please send me a postcard and I shall then make 
inquiries. 

The news that the wedding had gone off so merrily and that the loving 
couple” had enjoyed their honeymoon pleased me enormously. It is all right 
about the 80 marks. I hope that by now you have quite shaken off your 
influenza. Luckily I have recovered from mine and am gradually beginning 
to get out and about again. 

Very many thanks for the information re the Schaaffhausens. I shall be 
glad to take up the allotment of 1000 marks—a 120%. The initial payment of 
700 marks will be amply covered by my balance as at 30.4.94, even after 
deduction of the £40 (...)° per P.P. & Co., while accrued interest and the last 
Schaaffhausen dividend ought to be just about enough for the remaining 
payment of 500 marks. Should a few more marks be needed, you might be so 
good as to advance them to me pending the next dividend—i.e. assuming 
that I have not overlooked anything in the above calculation, in which case 
kindly advise me. 

The conversion into bonds a 1,000 marks would also be perfectly ac- 
ceptable to me if it could be done without leaving a tiresome or unproductive 
balance, something that can’t be managed just now when all bonds must be 
in denominations of 1,000 or 450. So if the thing is impossible it 

* See this volume, pp. 416, 441, 478 - Arthur Schuchard and Elsbeth Schuchard (née Engels) -° 
Ms. damaged 

would best be forgotten. But there might after all be some solution. 

Well, you now have the prompt answer you wanted. For the past four days 
we have been having wonderful spring weather; overnight everything began 
sprouting and burgeoning and the warm sun in the day time is quite untypical 
of a normal English April with its grey skies and biting north-easters. 

For the first time in my life I paid a dentist 10/6d last Monday* for pulling 
out a couple of old stumps. Now I only have seventeen teeth left, all of them 
in front and all of them so far complete, but nothing at the back, so I may 
have to be fitted with a set of false teeth! 

Love to you all. 

Yours, 
Friedrich