... We have some very pleasant passengers. A German lady with her father and little girl. What a strange idea foreigners have of America! This lady who appears very intelligent asked us if _America_ was anything like _London_!! Then 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. 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 me often. Since our last letters we have removed our lodgings to "No. 5. Clara Södra Kyko Gatan." We have more rooms but not as good ones as in the Droteninggatan. We have made some very pleasant acquaintances here. July 15th we dined at Mr. Arfwedson's--the father of the gentleman who married an American lady. Mr. A---- resides at Liston Hill in the Park--he has a little English cottage, built by Sir Robert Liston, formerly English minister to this court. It is a sweet spot--the Mäler flows almost directly beneath the windows of the cottage--a little flower garden is upon its banks, & a fine grove of trees in the rear of the cottage. Mr. Arfwedson is a fine old man--his wife has been dead several years. The only ladies present were our countrywoman Mrs. A---- & the eldest daughter of Mr. Arfwedson--the wife of Baron S----. She is a very delicate and graceful lady, was dressed very tastefully & altogether unlike the Swedish ladies we had before seen. Mr. A's second daughter is just married to a brother of her sister's husband who is also a Baron. They went immediately to Copenhagen, we have not therefore seen her, but have heard much of her great beauty. There were a number of gentlemen present at dinner, several of which were English. The dinner table was by far