Louis Leo Wolf to J. C. B. Davis, September 12, 1874

Mr. Wolf to Mr. Davis.

Dear Sir: I take the liberty of inclosing you a protest by me against the right of the Prussian government to levy an income-tax from me, as an American citizen temporarily residing in Frankfort, where I am staying for purposes relative to the education of my children, and doing no business whatever, and having no investments in Prussian stocks of any kind, and living on the revenues of capital employed in American and Austrian securities. A protest of very near same tenor, in German, I forwarded some months ago to the Prussian general government tax-commission, at Wiesbaden, without any result.

I would now call your excellency’s kind attention to this my protest, and hoping it may meet with due consideration, and that your excellency will thereupon take such steps in this matter as you may think just and right under the circumstances.

I have the honor to be, your excellency’s obedient servant,