THE BIOGRAPHY OF AGASSIZ 191 
TO AUGUSTE MAYOR 
Germantown, Pa., June 10, 1887 
I HAVE constantly intended to thank you for your 
letter giving me an account of the féte given by the 
Société de Belles Lettres on the occasion of placing 
Louis’s bust in the new Academic Building. 
It is most touching to me to see the ever increas- 
ing affection and respect for Louis’s memory in his 
own country. Even in this last letter you give me 
most remarkable instances of it; not the least strik- 
ing is of the person at Nice who was steadied in the 
long hours of waiting in danger and doubt by the 
story of his life. 
I received the Italian notice of the book and was 
much pleased with it, as you were. It had a dif- 
ferent character from any of the other reviews, but 
“it was very graceful and gracious in tone. I was 
glad also to hear of the old friend at Porrentruy, 
who had made the book his companion in the long 
winter months. 
Many of the currents in Mrs. Agassiz’s life spoken of 
above continued long after 1879. In that year she began to 
share a new interest destined to become important to her, 
although always standing apart from her other occupa- 
tions. This interest was the ‘Harvard Annex,” to which 
the next chapter is devoted. 
