GAUSS, Carl A. to William T. Gauss - 1923-08-20

From Gauss and his Children

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Letter

Hameln, Germany
20 August 1923

Liebe Cousin:

Please pardon me that I waited some days to answer your letter; I was obliged to be away for a few weeks and returned home only yesterday. I wish to thank you for all your trouble for me, and for the thirty dollars which you and your sister Mary and Cousins Virginia and Eugene and your brother Joseph sent to me. Everything arrived safely and I wish to thank the last-mentioned also. all of you have been a great help to me in these hard times which rest upon us, and in which I would not know how to make out is it were not that for the second time you have helped me. In the last months our condition has again grown worse, prices are going up from day to day, and there is no hope that things can get any better for some time. If I were young I would do as so many are doing, I would leave the country, as much as I love my country, because we are going towards our ruin, if France has its way. How can we pay the fabulous and incredible sums of money which are asked of us? So much the more as, through France occupying the Ruhr and Rhine, the work of our industries is almost made impossible. What the conditions really are, people outside do not know. Hate rules, and rough force torments the people to the utmost; unless the mighty nations of the world have sympathy to see that we do not perish.

Helen wrote that your wife was sick; I hope she is well again, so that you may live long together still; this is the happiest fortune for married persons.

My son Carl is in Wurzburg and is well. He has much work and in Germany is counted as an authority in X-ray treatment. He may yet become a great man. The newspaper clipping with his picture I send along.

Good-bye and Godspeed. Many thanks and regards to your wife and all relatives.

C. Gauss

Source

Location of handwritten original unknown. From the Black Book, notes of Anne Durfee Gauss and Minna Gauss Reeves. Transcribed to softcopy by Susan D. Chambless, May 7, 2000.