Translations:Minette Blaufuß (Da VII 4)/9/en

Differences of opinion with the administration of the Trautberg estate led my father to resign from his post as housefather and to take over the management of the Mutschenhof institution, of which he was already the inspector. Shortly after the war of 1866 – that is how far back my personal memories extend – we moved from Trautberg to Mutschenhof, approximately three kilometers away. This estate’s next neighbor was the mill Mutschenmühle, driven by the brook Grindleinsbach, which springs out of the ground near Kastell. The fact that the miller had to drive over the Mutschenhof grounds whenever he wanted to get to the road caused various disputes. Thus, there were new difficulties that had to be overcome by exercising patience and [illegible]: (1) the cramped housing conditions, (2) the unruliness of the pupils, (3) the hostilities of the miller, which were eventually settled in a trial. Again, the main burden, the very difficult housekeeping, was shouldered entirely by my mother. Father took care of the very extensive correspondence. He spent almost the whole day in his writing room. We children attended school in Rüdenhausen but did not learn much. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and catechism were the only subjects. In view of a better education for their children – with two more girls born at the Mutschenhof, Luise, who already died after a year, and Christine – my parents decided to move close to a town. However, this could not be carried out immediately. At the Mutschenhof, we were visited every year by dear relatives. Grandmother regularly came from Emskirchen. Uncle Johannes and beautiful Aunt Susanne called in, Uncle Christian from Honolulu spent some days with us, also Uncle Max before leaving for the Hawaiian Islands.