We awoke and, as usual, our first step led us to the window to see about the weather. The sky was not clear, but we decided to take a trip on the lake to enjoy the fresh air and the scenery as far as it was visible to us. We started at 9:30 in the…

The quartet started out bright and early, and Emily and I walked over the Muhelm Brucke (bridge), which is built on the same order as the Kapell Brucke and has paintings of the Dance of Death, describing death coming to the men and women in different callings such as judge, painter, workmen, etc., and calling…

My dear Boy: We are all mighty glad to be home again, and we made up our minds not to get out of bed any earlier than we had to, so we arose pretty late—I won’t say how late. After breakfast I wrote, and the ladies busied themselves in the kitchen, and, before we knew…