_Avis au lecteur_." On another occasion he says: "Only with difficulty can I resist the temptation of filling a whole letter with agricultural lamentations over frosts, sick cattle, bad reap, bad roads, dead lambs, hungry sheep, want of straw, fodder, money, potatoes, and manure; outside Johann is persistently whistling a wretched schottische out of tune, and I have not the cruelty to interrupt it, for he seeks to still by music his violent love-sickness." Then we have long letters from Nordeney, where he delighted in the sea, but space will not allow us to quote more.

It is only in these letters, and in those which he wrote in later years to his wife, that we see the natural kindliness and simplicity of his disposition, his love of nature, and his great power of description.

There have been few better letter-writers in Germany or any other country.
His ability and success as an agriculturist made a deep impression on his neighbours.

As years went on he became much occupied in local business; he was appointed as the representative of his brother, who was Landrath for the district; in 1845 he was elected one of the members for the Provincial Diet of Pomerania.

He also had a seat in the Diet for the Saxon province in which Schoenhausen was situated.