308 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
TO MISS SALLIE CARY 
Hotel Normandie, Paris, September 29, 1895 
I cannot tell you how delightful my stay with the 
Swiss family has been. It was rather agitating to go, 
for a whole world of young people has grown up 
(and indeed they have come into the world) since 
I was at Montagny in 1859 — and most of those I 
knew there are gone. I felt therefore a little strange 
and as if they would feel me to be more or less out 
of the circle. It was never so for a moment. I felt 
completely at home and as if I were a member of 
the household at once. 
The old Montagny house is quaint and picturesque 
as ever. It is a family centre, and while I was there no 
day passed without members of the family dropping 
in to spend the day. And then we all dined together, 
and the afternoon was spent in the shady garden 
full of flowers, where the tables stand always ready 
for tea or coffee, and where the young people were 
gay and full of fun, and the older people quietly 
talked over memories of the past, aroused in part no 
doubt by my coming which brought the family to- 
gether perhaps in greater numbers than usual. At 
all events I felt myself quite at home with young 
and old. I shall tell you much more about it when 
we can talk instead of writing. But I am so very glad 
that I was able to go. 
And now here we are in Paris; the personal things 
I so wished to do, and which seemed to me to have 
a certain responsibility, as my visits to the English 
