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to see a cloud of children and great-grandchildren loom up 
before her as the support of her old age. In the following let- 
ter we see her exercising the functions and privileges of a 
grandmother, in which she became a past mistress as the 
years went by. Her grandchild, Louis, to whom she refers 
not only here but in many subsequent letters, was an un- 
usually intelligent and interesting boy, the eldest son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Shaw, who fulfilled the bright promises of his 
younger years in his manhood, cut short all too soon by his 
early death. A few months before this letter was written 
the happy family circle in Quincy Street had been broken 
by the death of President Felton, to which Mrs. Agassiz 
refers. 
TO MISS SARAH G. CARY 
Schoolroom, April 29, [1862] 
I struu live and love you, though you may doubt the 
fact from my silence; but the days are so full, that 
night comes and finds half the things undone we 
mean to do in the morning. The children have occu- 
pied me a great deal lately, for they have found a very 
fascinating occupation that absolutely requires an 
older hand than theirs. There are pictures to be cut 
out and pasted on pasteboard, farms, mills, castles, 
country houses, paper architecture of all sorts and 
kinds, and it has furnished an endless entertainment 
for rainy and cloudy days. But they cannot get on 
without me as I have made a study of it and learned 
to put them up quite nicely, and it costs me a great 
deal of calculation to arrange my day so that I can 
save an hour or two for them and see the baby also. 
