24 December 1888, Letter from Johann Jacob Frautschi to Christian Frautschi
larger
image |
larger
image |
Envelope
jpeg file
50 KB | jpeg
file 45 KB |
Summary:
Johann writes to sum up events of the last few months: a daughter was born in October; his wife was ill after the birth and, while still weak, has survived; business has been slow due to the dry weather during autumn; there is no snow this winter, but rather rain, preventing progress on construction of the Ice Palace; and the boom on real estate seems to be at an end for now. Johann is considering selling some of his properties to make payments on others, but will wait for a while. He says he has written to their brother G. Gottlieb back in January, but has not heard from either Gottlieb nor Johannes for the entire year. He has had news that their brother J. Peter is feeling somewhat better, although the crops were poor this year.
Text of letter:
German | English
Transliteration and translation: Robert S. Spaeth and Roger P. Minert, Ph.D.
Commercial use prohibited. Copyright 2003, by the The
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Created: 10 July 2003
Comments to: kkurdylo@wisc.edu