The Journey Day by Day

  • Bremen, August 12, 1909

    By appointment, I called with Mama and Emily on Herm. Piege, and he took us to the house on the Hohe Strasse where I was born. When I looked him up at his home in the Klosterstrasse, I met a lady at the door and asked for Hermann. She asked me whether I could tell…

  • Bremen, August 13, 1909

    This has been a rather quiet day. I took a walk along the Contrescarpe (Promenade), and selected a little two story house with a very pretty garden in front, in which I would like to live. Mama and Emily stayed at home and packed the trunk, which is nearly filled with odds and ends picked…

  • Bremen, August 14, 1909

    All three of us took a walk to the Bremer Bank, and thence to the Historical Museum, which is in a building next to the Dome and which you probably overlooked, as it is opened only on Saturdays from 10 to 1. I told Mama and Emily to wait downstairs until I had taken a…