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Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

Creator: Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907, Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
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the printed circulars of my work I should be sure of success. . . In those days of costly postage one sheet of writing paper was sometimes made to serve for several members of the family. The next crowded letter contains chiefly domestic details, but closes with a postscript from Mme. Agassiz, filling, as she says, the only remaining corner, and expressing her delight in his diploma and in the completion of his book. FROM HIS MOTHER. August 16, 1829. . . .The place your brother has left me seems very insufficient for all that I have to say, dear Louis, but I will begin by thanking you for the happiness, as sweet as it is deeply felt, which your success has given us. Already our satisfaction becomes the reward of your efforts. We wait with impatience for the moment when we shall see you and talk with you. Your correspondence leaves many blanks, and we are sometimes quite ashamed that we have so few details to give about your book. You will be surprised that it has not yet reached us. Does the gentleman in Geneva intend to read it before sending it to us, or has he perhaps not received the package? Not hearing we are uneasy. . .Good-by, my dear son; I have no room for more, except to add my tender love for you. An
Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" 493 Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes 495 Hoveden's Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by James Graves 495 FOLK LORE:--Raven Superstition--African Folk Lore --Funeral Custom 496 Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. 496 MINOR NOTES:--Portrait of Luther--Randle Wilbraham --Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott--Crassus' Saying 498 QUERIES:-- Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke 499 "The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley 499 Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman 499 MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic
honorable mention of your name in the Lausanne Gazette has brought us many pleasant congratulations. . . TO HIS FATHER. August, 1829. . . .I hope by this time you have my book. I can the less explain the delay since M. Cuvier, to whom I sent it in the same way, has acknowledged its arrival. I inclose his letter, hoping it will give you pleasure to read what one of the greatest naturalists of the age writes me about it. CUVIER TO LOUIS AGASSIZ. PARIS, AU JARDIN DU ROI, August 3, 1829. . . .You and M. de Martius have done me honor in placing my name at the head of a work so admirable as the one you have just published. The importance and the rarity of the species therein described, as well as the beauty of the figures, will make the work an important one in ichthyology, and nothing could heighten its value more than the accuracy of your descriptions. It will be of the greatest use to me in my History of Fishes. I had already referred to the plates in the second edition of my "Regne Animal." I shall do all in my power to accelerate the sale among amateurs, either by showing it