296 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
into contact with criminals who stand high socially. 
They do not belong to what is called the criminal 
class. She looks of that kind. I know the expression 
well.” The professor then told him who she was. I do 
not know whether the man knew enough of her his- 
tory to be aware that she had been accused of crime 
and that a shadow of doubt still hangs over her. Per- 
haps he did not see the coincidence between his own 
comment and her sad life. 
TO MISS SARAH G. CARY 
Hotel Brunswick, London, June 10, 1895 
Ir gives me such a strange feeling to be on the other 
side of my Cambridge and Oxford visits. I looked 
forward to it all with pleasure but not without a cer- 
tain sense of anxiety and responsibility. It has all 
been simply delightful. Everything has been made 
very easy for me, and I have seen and learned more 
than I could have hoped to do. It has stimulated my 
interest in our home work, and I shall be surprised if 
it does not prove of serious value to me on my return. 
After all, I think it helps one very much to see what 
others are doing on the same lines on which you are 
yourself working. Our last day was one of the best in 
Oxford. In the morning I had a pleasant visit at the 
Max Millers’, — did not see him, because he was not 
well, but she is a charming person. I had once or 
twice spoken to her of a paper of her husband’s, 
which always interested me very much — J think you 
have heard me speak of it; it came out in Littell, and 
