MARY ---- [On outside of letter.] September 28. I have written by the same ship that brings you this. H. W. L. Also a letter to George. [_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.