Zengg; Croatia.May 1st.
1889
My dear Professor Grimm,
 You must be
so lonely. Never did anybody lose
more than you have lost. I saw
the death in the newspaper and
would have liked to write to you;
now there has come a letter from
dear good Melanie Gross, with
your addess, and I take the oppor-
tunity. what a companionship
you habe had; but it has come to
an end too soon, and the years