Yours of June 28th arrived last night, making the trip in the usual time, 14 days. If I were to send you the power of attorney now, you would receive it July 27—ten days too late. I am very sorry you didn’t start it a couple of weeks earlier. I hope things went satisfactorily & that your father remains in his place. I should have voted for him, of course.

As I wrote you, a week or so ago, I am making fair progress, but of course it isn’t great progress, because it costs me more days to get material than to write it up. I have written 400 pages of MS—that is to say, 4,000 about 45 or 50,000 words, or one-fourth of a book, but it is in disconnected form & cannot be used untilⒶemendation joined together by the writing of at least a dozen intermediate chapters. These intermediate chapters cannot be rightly written until we are settled down for the fall & winter in Munich.

I have been gathering a lot of excellent matter here during the past ten days (stuff which has never been in a book) & shall finish gathering it in a week more. Then we shall leave, & be on the wing for 2 months, during which time I shall not be able to write more than 200 or possibly 300 pages, perhaps. Can’t tell, yet. I shall be mostly on foot, with Twichell, the first 5 or 6 weeks, & shall write up in full every night if not too tired.

If you should need to write me in the meantime, direct to Heidelberg, care Koester & Co, Bankers, & I will ask them to forward it.