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graphs, and usually brought his lecture hour to a close 
around Mrs. Goodwin’s tea-table by the fireside; Professor 
Norton, for whom Mrs. Agassiz’s great regard, as well as 
his for her, is apparent in letters quoted later, and with 
whose view that the tendency of instruction at that time 
was too exclusively toward the less imaginative studies, 
she completely sympathized in spite of her strong bias 
toward scientific pursuits; and Professor Child, for whom 
her warm affection is expressed in the following letter 
written many years later on hearing of his death. 
TO MISS GRACE NORTON 
Nahant, September 13, 1896 
... For myself this great break (for such it is even 
for those who rarely met him) brings the strangest 
revival of my youth, when I knew Child first or rather 
when I saw him most frequently. I was often at my 
sister Mary’s for long visits, and then a day rarely 
passed without my seeing him. It was a very interest- 
ing time in my own life when I was just beginning to 
know Cambridge, and Felton’s house was a sort of 
centre for the older professors; into that pleasant cir- 
cle Child brought such a bright young spirit. He can- 
not have been much over twenty, for he was several 
years younger than I. After his marriage and mine we 
did not see so much of each other, and it is perhaps on 
account of that interruption that my memory bridges 
over the intervening time and makes these early days 
stand out to me more vividly than the present. But 
this cessation of frequent intercourse never lessened 
our affection for each other. I can say that for myself, 
