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Bremen, 31 July 1909
I went to the North German Lloyd this morning and looked up my old friend Ernest Gartner. How familiar the names of the old streets looked to me. Walking through Knochenhauser Str., I came to the corners of the Wegensende, Papen, and Pelzer streets, and here I found an immense building on which they are…
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Bremen, August 1, 1909
It is Sunday, we walked from the hotel to George Strasse 59, where in former years Father had his office and where the book concern was located. Here, I spent some years as an apprentice or, rather, as office boy. In the second story is the chapel of the Bremen Congregation, and here I sat…
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Bremen, August 2, 1909
I did not feel very well and spent the morning on the bed. It was raining a good part of the day. Ernest Gartner called, and we made arrangements to go out together to look up some of the old landmarks. Nasts left and I saw them off, Hanna Burfh was there, too. In the…