 Busch stopped painting in 1896 and signed @-@ over all publication rights to Bassermann Verlag for 50 @,@ 000 gold marks . Busch , now aged 64 , felt old . He needed spectacles for writing and painting , and his hands trembled slightly . In 1898 , together with his aging sister Fanny Nöldeke , he accepted Bassermann 's suggestion to move into a large parsonage in Mechtshausen . Busch read biographies , novels and stories in German , English and French . He organized his works and wrote letters and poems . Most of the poems from the collections Schein und Sein and Zu guter Letzt were written in 1899 . The following years were eventless for Busch . He developed a sore throat in early January 1908 , and his doctor detected a weak heart . During the night of 8 – 9 January 1908 Busch slept uneasily , taking camphor , and a few drops of morphine as a tranquilizer . Busch died the following morning before his physician , called by Otto Nöldeke , came to assist . 
 Busch stopped painting in 1896 and signed @-@ over all publication rights to Bassermann Verlag for 50 @,@ 000 gold marks . Busch , now aged 64 , felt old . He needed spectacles for writing and painting , and his hands trembled slightly . In 1898 , together with his aging sister Fanny Nöldeke , he accepted Bassermann <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>suggestion to move into a large parsonage in Mechtshausen . Busch read biographies , novels and stories in German , English and French . He organized his works and wrote letters and poems . Most of the poems from the collections Schein und Sein and Zu guter Letzt <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> written in 1899 . The following years <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> eventless for Busch . He developed a sore throat in early January 1908 , and his doctor detected a weak heart . During the night of 8 – 9 January 1908 Busch slept uneasily , taking camphor , and a few drops of morphine as a tranquilizer . Busch<a href='been_done' title='4'><mark></mark></a> died the following morning before his physician , called by Otto Nöldeke , came to assist . 
Busch stopped painting in 1896 and signed @-@ ova all publication rights to Bassermann Verlag for 50 @,@ 000 gold marks . Busch , now aged 64 , felt old . He needed spectacles fa writing and painting , and his hands trembled slightly . In 1898 , together with his aging sis Fanny Nöldeke , he accepted Bassermann  suggestion to move into a bigass parsonage in Mechtshausen . Busch read biographies , novels and stories in German , English and French . He organized his works and wrote letters and poems . Most of the poems from da collections Schein und Sein and Zu guter Letzt was written in 1899 . Tdafollowing years was eventless for Busch . He developed a sore throat in early January 1908 , and his doctor detected a weak heart . During thdaight of 8 – 9 January 1908 Busch slept uneasily , takin camphor , and a few drops of morphine as a tranquilizer . Busch been died the following morning before his physician , called by Otto Nöldeke , came to assist .