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of my trunks I could not accept Mrs. Beckedorff s invitation 

 to meet Madam Zimmermann, c., in an evening, on ac- 

 count of not having clean things ; but she is so kind as to 

 call on me sometimes among all the hurry she is engaged in 

 at present with the Princess Augusta. 



Mr. Gisewell came a few daj r s ago to see me ; he lives a 

 little way out of town, and poor Mrs. G. keeps her bed, and 

 is hardly ever well ; their eldest daughter is happily situated 

 with the Queen of Wiirtemberg, and Mr. Gisewell enjoys a 

 very lucrative situation. 



I wish you could conveniently acquaint my nephew, H. 

 Griesbach, as soon as possible, that my brother has received 

 an answer to the letter he sent to Antwerp to the sister 

 of H. Griesbach, and that in the parcel which the mes- 

 senger will bring will be enclosed her letter to Mr. H. G. 



I hope you will make Miss Baldwin write me soon a long 

 account how yourself and all around and ivlth you are, but 

 pray let it be a favourable one, and remember me to all 

 (who are so good as to inquire after me) most cordially, 

 and believe me, 



My dear Lady H., 



Your very affectionate 



CAR. HEESCHEL. 



P.S. We have had a few days' very severe frost; to- 

 morrow I shall unpack my thermometer ; I suppose I shall 

 find the difference between a German and an English 

 winter, though they make the rooms hot enough with their 

 stoves ; but then I am afraid of firing their chimneys, and 

 we have no water, though the police have demanded that 

 every housekeeper shall be provided with eight buckets of 

 water in their kitchen ; besides, the price of fuel is enormous, 

 owing to the French having destroyed all the forests. 



