Freiburg i/Br. [im Breisgau] 17.12.37
68 Talstr.My dearest Miss Turner!
What do you think about me not having thanked you for your dear friendly Photo of yourself and for the most inter. [?] Centennial Supplement you send me long ago. I must tell you, that I have been way many months this year, in Italy, 3 months, even so in Bavaria and other parts of Germany. I was for a short time luckily there, when the dear Miss Sampson [Myra Sampson, professor of zoology at Smith College] came I was so glad to see her again; I only wished you would have come too, but not only for a short day.
I am often reading again your Holyoke paper and I have the greatest respect for all the Ladies wonderful work during those long years. You can realy [sic] be proud over your success and I wish it will last for many hundred years. It is one of the greatest finest work in the world to educate young people to real fine human beings. Nothing can be more satisfactorily [sic] than that. How I should have liked to have seen your beautiful festivals this year.
I must tell you, that my son in law Gottwalt Fischer is since of Okt. ordinary Prof. in Würzburg where it is a very great chem. Institut [sic] and he has so much to do I am glad, they have found a nice little villa in a garden with swimming pool at the Steinberg where it is a beautiful one over the town, the main and the mountains full of grapes instead of woods like in Fr. I went with them to help to arrange the little house and you can well understand, that my heart long[s] to be there, so I went for a short time once more. You ca'nt understand, what a lot of beautiful old art there is in W. particularly a lot of Till Riemenschneiders, one of finest Middleage Sculptors. And then a museum, the Burg, Residence etc and quite near many smaller towns Rothenburg etc. During Xmas they are coming to me, I am so glad. This summer I stayed in Bavaria near Minden and my friend took me in her Auto round Bavaria, a beautiful country with lakes, high mountains and original houses.
My sister in Napoli I helped to change her big Palazzo into a little flat upon the hill with a splendid vue. I hope to be able to go to her next year as soon as I can come way. I had a troublesome time because the division of the inheritance is first now ended and I hope so to make the Fritz Geiges museum for the town this next year. I am surly [sic] not thinking, that money makes all happiness, but in this case, I realy [sic] wished to have a lot to be able to fulfill my dear husbands wish. May it be a happy Xmas and a good new Year for you dear friend and welcome to my little nest if you come to Gr.
ever yours
Maja G.