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Renter, his curator, was away last week, but I shall 

 see him, I presume, to-morrow. 



I have just lost my mother, at a good old age. My 

 father died twenty-four years earlier. . . . 



It is a charming place here. We are spending the 

 morning lazily, and go on soon to Geneva. The 

 young people have gone on to Chamouni, which we 

 do not care to revisit. . . . Kindest regards to Pro- 

 fessor Fenzl, with regrets that I shall not see him. 



TO JOSEPH ROWLAND. 



INTERLAKEN, July 26, 1869. 



. . . We have had a joyful time in Switzerland, 

 and for me a complete rejuvenation. And as to Mrs. 

 Gray, who did not need that, what we call " the move- 

 ment cure " has done her more good than all Egypt. 

 That my lamentable failure of breath on Piz Langarde 

 was owing, not to advancing years, as I had foreboded, 

 nor wholly to the rarefaction of the atmosphere above 

 9,000 feet, as Mrs. H. suggested, but to a violent cold, 

 then impending, I proved satisfactorily by walking 

 the other day down from Miirren to Lauterbrunnen 

 (having walked up the eve before), and then right on 

 over the Wengern Alp to Grindelwald, and I believe 

 as comfortably as I did it (all but the first part) 

 thirty, and then nineteen, years ago ! 



Weather has been all we could ask for, this the 

 first rainy day to keep us indoors, and it now promises 

 to be pleasant by noon, so that we can go to Giess- 

 bach. Let me tell you what we have done. . . . 



Wife and I started Thursday, to Sierre, by rail. 

 Friday, carriage to Yisp, and horses to St. Nicolaus. 

 Saturday, char-a-banc to Zermatt, and horses to hotel 

 on the Riff el. Only my wife's own pen can relate 



