In the meantime much has happened regarding Dr. Wolff; Mrs. Wolff is being divorced from a man who has always insulted you, when you, in your fatherly kindness, were trying to improve him and procure a better fate for your daughter Eleonore. This ungrateful man is now removed from the family.
Next comes the chief point, that is your marriage with your present wife, a highly cultured lady whom we greatly esteem, a marriage which brings honour to you and to homoeopathy. And lastly the favorably reception which you both have accorded me on my last visit, and your unchanged fatherly love, together with our ardent desire to live near you has awakened in us once more the childlike desire in our hearts to enquire if you would allow and desires, that I and my wife should come to live at Cothen-the place you have glorified-to be near to you and Madame our mother, and in the company of our sisters. We could perhaps live with the sisters Louischen and Lottchen for a suitable rent, and at the same time have the good fortune to enjoy the honour which as the greatest reformer, you enjoy with your life.
In filial simplicity and obedience we await your early declaration and order, and are with all due veneration,
Your submissive children, INSPECTOR DELLBRUCK.
Dresden, February 23, 1835.
Hahnemann’s marginal remark to this letter reads: “6th of March.
Dellbruck has been here, and has left again with her to-day.”
This infers that the son-in-law did not wait for a written reply from the father, but went to Cothen with his wife, hahnemann’s daughter, Friederike, to visit, the newly married couple, but that he accomplished nothing.
ANOTHER GIFT TO HAHNEMANN ON THE OCCASION OF HIS WEDDING.
Very esteemed Hofrath,
Dear Sir,
We have received through Mr. Isensee, the sum of 117 Rthl. 21 gr. as a donation from you for the Mutual Aid Society. Although we know that you do not except our thanks, or the thanks of men in general for this magnanimous deed prompted by lofty motives which need no praise because they carry their own reward, yet this gift is of such importance to our Society that we cannot restrain our feelings, and we thank you whole-heartedly in the name of our Institute, nay, in the name of our Country, which it is intended to help.
Please accept, dear Sir, these simple words as they express our inmost feelings, and be assured of the deep veneration with which you have inspired us. We address a prayer for His blessing on you to God, in Whose hand in laid the reward of all that is good.
Kothen, February 16th, 1835.
The Administrators of the Help Society.
DR. WENDT, E.F. WINZER, W. WENDT (fourth signature unreadable).
SUPPLEMENT 161
HAHNEMANN AND THE HAPPINESS OF HIS SECOND MARRIAGE.
In a letter to Boenninghausen we read:
Cothen, May 22nd, 1835.
Such a heavenly life as the one I lead with my wife whose perfection surpasses that of mortals, you can hardly imagine. All my friends have been telling me, for the last few months, that I look twenty years younger. She was just painted my portrait in oils, and completed it in nine days, and every one expresses surprises at its perfect likeness and finished execution-(three years ago she was considered the most celebrated poetess and painter in France), but on account of her illness-a kind of tic douloureux (neuralgic pains-R.H.) in the right hypogastrium, she had not touched brush for three years-now she can paint again without discomfort; that is the extent to which I have improved the health of my angelic wife!
SUPPLEMENT 162
HAHNEMANN’S WILL. According to the original in the possession of Hahnemann’s grandchild, Dr. Suss- Hahnemann, of Ventnor; see also “Allg. hom. Ztg.,” 1864, Vol. 69, p. 100.
In the name of God.
Although I, Hofrath of the Duchy of Anbalt-Cothen, Doctor of Medicine, Christian Frederick Samuel Hahnemann, who have signed with my own hand on all pages, having the keen desire to spend the remaining days of my life in quiet and undisturbed peace in every respect, but especially with regard to my property, to avoid all disputes and misunderstandings among my family-have already made my Will on September 16th, and duly deposited it with the Ducal Government-and on the 17th of February of this year I divided nearly the whole of my fortune among my children and grandchildren now living; yet after careful consideration, finding that those very disposition which in some respects are contradictory and annul each other, might engender mistakes and misunder-standings, and also in consequence of my contemplated journey to Paris, from whence it is quite impossible to say when, if eve, I shall return, my views and intentions have become altered on some points; therefore, I herewith cancel and annul my first will and replace it by this present will which directs how my property shall be dealt with after my death by my children and grandchildren.
1. Before all I commend my immortal soul to the grace and mercy of God, in the steadfast belief that his most high and potent Guide of my destinies will allow it to participate in His heavenly glory. My mortal remains shall be left to my dearly beloved wife, who is to have the free choice of the place of interment and of the funeral arrangements, unfettered by anyone; but should one of my children or grandchildren dare to interfere with her directions, he is forthwith to be punished by losing one half of his inheritance.
2. To all the heirs of my entire property consisting of a little more than 60,000 thalers, besides my two houses in the Wallstrasse, in this town, with all appertaining thereto, several valuable articles of virtue, and my other furniture. I apportion titulo institutions honorable, in equal parts, but subject to conditions clearly explained in the following paragraphs, among all my children and grandchildren, as also any children who may arise from present marriage.
3. As mentioned above, on the 17th February I disposed of nearly the whole of my properly by a deed of gift to my children, giving each of them the sum of 6000 thalers, subject to certain conditions specially stated in the aforesaid document. This deed of mine dose not alter it, but I declare herewith most emphatically that in order not to bind myself by it, this deed has not been submitted to my children for their approval, and therefore it is not binding on either party, but contains only my own dispositions of my property, an arrangement which I have made solely for the purpose of affording my children during my lifetime some assistance. It is, therefore, not irrevocable, but can at any time, according to my judgment, be altered or cancelled.
4. Should my son Frederick be incontestably found to have died before me, then his daughter is to be placed in his stead, and should she have died childless previous to my decease, then her portion, as well as that of any others who may have died without issue before my demise is to fall back into the general estate.
5. I leave as a special legacy to my two youngest daughters, Charlotte and Louise, for their joint use, my house, 270 Wallstrasse in this town, free of all debts and mortgages, so that they may take possession of it immediately after my death. Likewise I bequeath to my daughter Amalie, as a reward for her constant filial affection and devotion, my house 269 Wallstrasse in this town, free from all debts and mortgages, with court and garden, free from any charge, to take possession of immediately after my death, without having to pay anything to the other heirs, but in case my daughter Elenore Wolff should be without a husband and wish to live n Cothen, she should either occupy one room on this house, or, instead of this free residence (according to Amalie’s choice) she should receive twenty thalers a year for rent.
6. The golden snuff-box with the letter F in brilliants, which the late Duke Ferdinand presented to me, I hereby bequeath to my absent son Frederick, should he be still alive, otherwise his daughter is to receive it, like the other portions of her father;s inheritance. All the other valuable articles and movables belonging to me have already, for the most part, been divided among my children during my lifetime by a special deed of gift. the lists containing those a articles which each of my heirs has received, or is to receive, are all signed with my name, and are marked, respectively, A,B,C, d, f, g, h, and are annexed to this will.
7. With regard to the house which I bequeathed to my two daughters, Charlotte and Louise; I have particularly to state, that should one of them die before me, the other one is at once to take possession of it. If both are alive at the time of my death they are at liberty to dispose of all their legacies according to their own free will.
8. All those articles of my property which have not been mentioned or disposed of, either in this will or in the annexed lists, belong to the general estate and are to be divided equally among my heirs; but all the other properties, which I take with me to Paris, do not belong to the general estate and will be disposed of hereafter.
Richard Haehl was also an editor and publisher of the homeopathic journal Allgemcine, and other homeopathic publications.
Haehl was responsible for saving many of the valuable artifacts of Samuel Hahnemann and retrieving the 6th edition of the Organon and publishing it in 1921.
Richard Haehl was the author of - Life and Work of Samuel Hahnemann