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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, Cécile, 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. CARY 
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 Mare 
Francillon, who received me exactly like a brother, 
