Wishes for recovery; fans from Rabba (reminder of Rohlfs Dortsein)

Erbittet Streitberg's opinion on the possible expansion of the Hamburg Colonial Institute into an independent institution. Requests answers to various questions on teaching, funding and science.

Reports about the state of the family in Zittau. Reports about a lecture by Ernst [Speck] about Emin Pascha as well as about a concert of the Gymnasialchor. Writes about the last Sunday of the dead. Share news from Julius [Schramm].

Expects steamboat to Congo exploration

Work of the Kolonial-Verein; will present in Weimar

Trouble with clients

Conc. invitation; with Wissmann to the Grand Duke; Peters-Steamer

His departure from Bagamago and its destruction

Proposals for action in O-Africa; has ships built

His plans for German O-Africa

Send him an essay by A[rnod] van Gennep for evaluation. Thanks for "Peoples Psychology." Agrees above all with the concept of soul depth. Rejects Wundts interpretation of the resurrection idea with reference to Paul. Reported from work [Diedrich] Westermanns.

Thanks for articles in the Allgemeine Zeitung. Thanks for acknowledging his and [Diedrich] Westermann's work in the article. Currently investigating the ablaut in African languages and has found a lawfulness in this regard in Somali. Sees in the Hamitic languages the key to the Semitic languages. Regrets that Westermann is going back to Africa.

Asked whether Wundt could support the Leipzig Philosophical Faculty in awarding [Diedrich] Westermann an honorary doctorate.

Thanks for "people psychology", which in his opinion corrects some wrong ideas, especially in linguistics. Together with his friend [Diedrich] Westermann he made discoveries about the relationship of Sudanese languages. Makes remarks about sound pictures in the Bantu. Has begun work on a Bantu grammar. In contrast to Wundt, he does not necessarily see the cause for sound shifts in cultural progress and refers to his own essay on the subject.

Thank you for the second part of the second volume of "Peoples Psychology". Does research to the Nama and hamitic languages.

Sends copy of a letter from Heinrich Zahn from New Guinea about pitches in the Papua languages. Looks thus relationship to the Central African languages confirmed.

Reported from a find [Heinrich] Vedders: quiver, bow and arrow from South Africa.

Find kinship between the Papuan and Sudanese languages. He refers to [Otto] Dempwolff, whose report from New Guinea he encloses as a copy. Wundt asks whether his speech on the "true war" had already appeared in print.

About a possible appointment of Hermann Wagner to Leipzig

Lecture; Problems with the International African Society

Geographical Society Foundation Festival, invitation; Pogge and Lenz

Thanks for lecture-commitment

Publications about African society; gifts; info and more

Meteorological observations; request because of Diener Tauber