# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1860_S193
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume VI.    July 1860.    No. 7.

Editorial Correspondence.

Zurich, June 16, 1860.

Esteemed Mr. Editor!

It has long been my intention to send you, as my temporary deputy in the editorship of this journal, and through you to its esteemed readers, some sign of life during my absence in Europe; but until now I have always lacked that quiet which is absolutely required for the necessary composure to do so. This quiet has at last come to me (I confess, against my will) through the fact that today a rain, already lasting for several days, keeps me confined in the birthplace of Zwinglianism and does not permit me, as I had intended, to make straight, immediately upon my entry into the picturesque valleys of Switzerland, for the first much-visited high point in the east of Switzerland, the well-known Rigi, and to climb its peak towering high into the clouds. *) This quiet forced upon me I now use with pleasure to let you and your readers hear something of me once again from afar.

Since I am making my present journey solely for the purpose of restoring my failing health, it cannot occur to me to trouble anyone with a description of it. However favorably my long journey from New Orleans to Hamburg, and from there to Leipzig, Zwickau, Waldenburg, Burgstädt, Hohenstein, Chemnitz, Halle, Zeitz, Greiz, Cahla, Roda, Nuremberg, and in part into the neighborhood of these towns, has worked upon my health through God's blessing, it has nevertheless been poor in events whose public communication might be of interest and use. **) Only one event can I not pass over in silence, and that a most distressing and sorrowful one. In Leipzig

*) Namely, on the advice of my American physician, I consulted physicians here after a change in my state of health had already set in at sea, who urgently advised me to take walking tours in fresh mountain air instead of the mineral bath which I had thought to use.

**) I would also so gladly have made Munich the goal of my journey, in order to seek out here the Right Honorable Councillor Dr. Harless; alas, I had to hear, however, that the highly esteemed man was ailing and was therefore presently staying at the baths of Gastein.

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