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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carmiol" data-source="post: 3926220" data-attributes="member: 151271">Here is the Mother's Day letter I talked about in a previous post.  Its not clear by the scan, but the crown of flowers are real 1846 preserved flowers.  It is quite a thing to see.As you can see, it is signed by Julius Carnigohl (which should rest the case on the last name, as this is his handwriting), and dated 1846 (8 years before the trip to Costa Rica).Because of the date, I now have a question on if it was Julius Carnigohl senior (Don Julian Carmiol), of his son (Franz's brother) who wrote the letter.  I have a translation somewhere....</blockquote>