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we have a German Prince with huge mustachios; Clara played whist with him last evening!
Oh dear!
I do not know as I shall be able to speak to you when I return, I see so many lords and ladies!
but in reality these lords and ladies are not half as agreeable people as some of Henry's literary friends.
Mr.Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle have more genuine worth and talent than half of the nobility in London.
Mr. Carlyle's literary fame is very high, and she is a very talented woman —but they are people after my own heart—not the least pretension about them.
Mrs. Carlyle has a pin with Goethe's head upon it, which that great author sent her himself.
She is very proud of it I assure you. They live very retired, not wishing to mix with fashionable society, which they regard in its true light; still they have some friends among the nobility who know how to value them.
Stockholm, August 5, 1835.
my dear mother,—I hope you have received my letter to you from London ere this.
We sent letters home from here July 21st by Capt. Symons directly to Boston—it was as soon as possible after our arrival; among them Henry sent a letter to his father, & I to Mary, Sam & Anne.
I was quite delighted to receive a letter from Mary & Sam—hope they will write 