[_Endorsement._]
Mary P. Longfellow to
S. Longfellow, containing a
Copy of Henry's Journal
_Sept. 21, 1835._{33}

COPENHAGEN, September 22, 1835.

MY DEAR AUNT LUCIA,--Pray do not be alarmed on receiving this letter
for fear that you must answer it. I have not hoped such a favor, but
am content, however much I should be delighted to hear from you, to
write you occasionally without the hopes of an answer, thinking &
knowing you would be as happy to receive a letter from me as any of
my dear friends. I received a very entertaining letter from Anne a
few days since. Henry says "Anne's letters have some _pith_ to
them." Pray urge her to write us often, & I shall take just as much
interest in hearing about her family affairs as if I was in
Brunswick.

And so you have made a visit in Boston, & have been upon railroads,
to balloon ascensions, theatres & I know not what. After such a
quiet life as you have passed for several years, it must be quite a
pleasant little incident, & I know that you must have enjoyed your
visit much. But, after all, do you not think that the pleasure of
travelling is greatest when it has been all passed, & you are seated
once more in your quiet home,--& retrace in imagination your
wanderings? It must be so--I think--then you remember only what is
agreeable, & the thousand little inconveniences, one must suffer in
travelling, are forgotten.

I cannot tell you how delighted we all are that we are out of
Sweden. Henry scolds not a little that a summer _in Europe_ should
have been passed there.

You have heard before this, by our letters from Gothenburg, that we
were detained there a week, much against our will. We passed the
time, however, very pleasantly. H[enry] delivered a letter from my
Uncle Robert [Storer] to Mr. Wijk of that place, & he was very
attentive & kind to us. On Sunday the 6th of September we dined with
him, & had the pleasure of being introduced to his celebrated lady.
She appears as his daughter, being more than thirty years younger
than her husband. We had heard of her great beauty in America. I
cannot say that she is beautiful, but she is extremely pretty with
very interesting manners. They have travelled much on the continent
& in England. The dinner was much more A