590 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. (1869, 
Reuter, his curator, was away last week, but I shall 
see him, I presume, to-morrow. 
I have just lost my mother, ata 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 sepia 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 HOWLAND. 
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 Biers ae rail. 
Friday, carriage to Visp, and horses to St. Nicolaus. 
Saturday, ghar Deane to Zermatt, and horses to hotel 
on the Riffel. Only my wite’s own pen can relate 
