I Arrive in Germany

Abstract

Our last stop before Hamburg was Rotterdam, Holland. It was planned to visit Professor Johann Büttikofer and family— you will remember earlier that Büttikofer was a friend of my grandmother’s who wrote of her in his Reisebilder aus Liberia.¹ Büttikofer knew father since the time father was an infant, and father and Ma Sedia had visited them before. This visit was also important to the family because Büttikofer was a friend of Ma Sedia’s grandfather, the late Hilary R. Johnson, under whose administration he had visited Liberia. It was very interesting to make this visit and hear of the days of all the actions and deeds of the fathers who lived in the generation before us.