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larly exchanged letters with the daughter of Alexander 

 Braun, Frau Cecile Mettenius of Berlin, although they 

 never met until 1895, when Mrs. Agassiz was making her 

 second visit to Europe. "The cousins of my children are to 

 me like nieces and nephews of my own," she wrote to 

 Frau Mettenius, and from the letters quoted below on 

 pages 187 and 188 it can be seen how completely she ap- 

 preciated and shared the admiration of Agassiz for Braun. 

 The summer abroad closed with a visit to Agassiz's 

 mother at Montagny in Switzerland, where Mrs. Agassiz 

 first learned to know personally the Swiss relatives, whose 

 affection she speedily won and returned, and who al- 

 ways remained her intimate correspondents. The follow- 

 ing letter was written from the house of Agassiz's sister, 

 Olympe, Madame Marc Francillon, at Lausanne. His 

 other sister, Cecile, Madame Wagnon, lived on a beauti- 

 ful estate among the vineyards at the foot of the Jura, 

 not far from Yverdon, in the little village of Montagny, 

 which was also the home of Agassiz's mother. It is notice- 

 able that in this letter Mrs. Agassiz refers to Agassiz as 

 Louis, as she usually did in speaking of him to his own kin- 

 dred, whereas in America she habitually called him Agassiz, 

 the name by which he was invariably known among his 

 American friends. 



TO MRS. THOMAS G. GARY 



Lausanne, July 30, 1859 



HERE we are, dear Mother, in Olympe's house, where 

 we arrived yesterday noon. I think I told you that 

 on Sunday we had a visit at Montagny from Marc 

 Francillon, who received me exactly like a brother, 



