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says ‘for one lady it would have been intolerable, for two very unpleasant; but for three quite agreeable.’
Henry has been much disappointed not to receive a letter from his father.
We are now expecting letters every day from home, & when Wm. Goddard arrives next month we hope to have many—
Please to give my love to Aunt Lucia & say to her I shall write her very soon.
Be so kind as to give much love to all the family for me, & accept much love & respect for yourself & Mr Longfellow from
Your ever affectionate
Mary——
my dearest mother,—As a little blank space is left, I will fill it with a postscript.— We have just returned—that is to say, day before yesterday,—from a visit to the University of Upsala, and the Iron mines of Dannemora; —of which Mary will give you a description all in good time.
We already begin to think of leaving Stockholm—and shall probably take the steamboat to Gothenburg in about three weeks.—For my own part, I should like to go sooner if we could.
I am disappointed in Sweden.
The climate is too cold and unpleasant.
I want a little warm sunshine.
Something that I can feel, as well as see. From Gothenburg
