37 Great Russell Street , 
Bloomsbury, London, 
January 18,1880. 
My dear Doctor Hayden: 
It took a long time for your letter to find me in 
Munich but it was hearily welcome when it did come. I am 
glad to know that you are physically and spiritually in such 
good trim - may your shadow increase. You will doubtless 
enjoy living in a house of your own, as I hope will also Mrs. 
Hayden. I should think it the most satisfactory way to live. 
After flitting about the Alps for two or three weeks, 
seeing a lot of interesting stuff and getting thoroughly tired 
of civilized mountain climbing, I descended to the lowlands 
and soon came to a halt in Munich. Here I remained until the 
end of the year. (1879) My stay in Munich was most delightful 
and I shall long look back to it with pleasure. It is a city 
thoroughly to my liking, as quiet as Washington and as full of 
art as it can "stick." Music as well as art seems as im- 
portant part of the life of the people. They go to the 
theater or to the art gallery with as much seriousness and 
earnestness as we go to church or to the necessary duties of 
life. The Bavarians are a great people, inferior to none, 
intellectually and esthetically , and physically superior to all. 
Th^LfS military training makes the men erect and digni- 
fied and the outdoor life and active employments of the women 
make them seem Amazonian. 
