The following is a copy of a letter sent from one of my ancestors (Nikolaus Frett) on August 30th, 1841 after arriving in America from the Eifel Region in Germany. The letter was addressed to "the merchant Marhoffer" of Virneburg.

A copy of this letter in German can be found in the book,  "Wir verlangen nicht mehr nach Deutschland" (We no longer yearn for Germany), which gets its name from a line in the letter written by Nikolaus Frett.