CHAPTER IV. 



1829-1830: ^ET. 22-23. 



Scientific Meeting at Heidelberg. Visit at Home. Illness 

 and Death of his Grandfather. Return to Munich. 

 Plans for Future Scientific Publications. Takes his De- 

 gree of Medicine. Visit to Vienna. Return to Munich. 

 Home Letters. Last Days at Munich. Autobiograph- 

 ical Review of School and University Life. 



TO HIS PARENTS. 



HEIDELBERG, September 25, 1829. 

 . . . THE time of our meeting is almost at 

 hand. Relieved from all anxiety about the 

 subjects I had wished to present here, I can 

 now be quietly with you and enjoy the rest 

 and freedom I have so long needed. The ten- 

 sion of mind, forced upon me by the effort to 

 reach my goal in time, has crowded out the 

 thoughts which are most present when I am 

 at peace. I will not talk to you of what I 

 have been doing lately, (a short letter from 

 Frankfort will have put you on my track), 

 nor of the relations I have formed at the Hei- 

 delberg meeting, nor of the manner in which 



