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

 see him, I presiune, 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 HOWLAND. 



Inteklaken, 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 aU 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 Visp, and horses to St. Nicolaus. 

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

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



