Dr. Gudermann is sending this letter by a young woman who will marry a teacher in Catskill, New York, and who will mail the letter to Rese in America. Dr. Gudermann is a childhood friend of Rese and has not seen him since Rese left Vienenburg, West Brandenburg, Germany or Wiedelake. Gudermann's Father had a visit from Rese while Dr. Gudermann was staying in Cleve Rhine province. Soon afterwards Gudermann read in a missionary magazine that Rese was made Bishop of Detroit, and he has followed up Rese's career as close as he could. He has heard that there are letters of Rese in Munster, but he has not seen them, which he greatly regrets. He asks Rese to write to him, as he has now renewed the acquaintance of their youth. Concerning himself, Gudermann writes that he is healthy and strong and he lives a quiet and studious life. He was a teacher and educator in the orphan asylum of Hildesheim Northern Lower Saxony for 3 years, during which time he developed a decided liking for mathematics. He taught them mathematics and natural science at the Royal Gymnasium in Cleve Rhine province for 9 years, after which time he became assistant professor of mathematics at the Royal Academy University of Munster Westphalia. At that time he received an honorary doctor degree from the University of Berlin, and the King Fredrich Wilhelm III has given him his golden half-length portrait together with an autographed letter after Gudermann had sent him one of his books. He also was made full professor. In Cleve he had married a girl from Hildesheim Hannover and he has six children. The oldest one received Rese's first name, Adolph, and is a student of the Gymnasium in Munster. All children are well and his income would be sufficient, if his family had not proved so numerous and if another child were not expected. He has written four mathematical books of which three have already appeared and the fourth and largest one is now in print in Berlin. Besides he has published many papers in the Journal for Pure and Applied Mathematics by Crelle, appearing in Berlin. Gudermann is sending Rese two of his books. He could not have the books bound nor get a copy of the third book, as time was too short to get them ready. The title of the book not included is Outline of the Analytical Spherics and contains six lithographic prints. It was published by M. Du Mont, Schauberg, Cologne 1830. Should Rese have no use for these books, then he can give them to a public library or t o a clever young mathematician. Gudermann likes Rese's profession. If he had not wanted to marry, he would also have become a missionary for which he would have had the necessary physical strength. The whole south sea is full of islands, whose inhabitants know little or nothing about Christianity. The Catholics have made a small beginning with the Gambier Islands and as they have been so successful, they should continue the Christianization in a larger and more zealous way, otherwise their results will stand behind the ones of the English or the Protestants of North America. Catholic priests like the ones working on the Gambier Islands who do not care to work in comfort but who go among the savages, are necessary. Gudermann wanted to be such a missionary. He pictures the Hurons, among which he thinks Rese is working, as a small but strong people living in the North, and he hopes that no unnecessary experiments will be made with them. He asks Rese if he would rather stay with the Hurons than live in that part of North America which dishonors its own Republic and where the inhabitants are more detestable than the Turks, not because they have slaves, but because they have taken away from the slaves all possibility to become civilized and Christians. God will punish them terribly and especially will they be punished by their own slaves. When the emancipation on the West Indies has not only been theoretically but actually completed and consolidated, then punishment will come to the South of the United States and will shake the nice and easy going planters out of their complacency. Are these planters Christians who use their women slaves as brood-mares, to whom these poor people are only animals who have to bring forth children in order to satisfy their desires and increase the number of workers? The Turks live like Christians and the Christians live more detestably than the Turks. The Turks treat their slaves as companions, the planters on the Mississippi treat their slaves worse than animals. And such un-Christianity is even lawful, the state legislature tries to establish it even more firmly. Shame to the North American liberty. Gudermann hopes that Rese will be happy and well as he is himself and that he may bear the burden of his office patiently and not forget him. Gudermann thinks and speaks of him often and has proved to others by Rese's example that God is with a good person. It is wonderful how the Lord has guided Rese. :: III-2-g A.L.S. German 3pp. 8vo.