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and spending very happy days with my grandfather.
But he is now very ill, and even should we have better news of him to-day, the thought weighs heavily on my heart, that I must take leave of him when he is perhaps on his death-bed. . . . I have just tied up my last package of plants, and there lies my whole herbarium in order,—thirty packages in all. For this I have to thank you, dear Alex., and it gives me pleasure to tell you so and to be reminded of it. What a succession of glorious memories came up to me as I turned them over.
Free from all disturbing incidents, I enjoyed anew our life together, and even more, if possible, than in actual experience.
Every talk, every walk, was present to me again, and in reviewing it all I saw how our minds had been drawn to each other in an ever-strengthening union.
In you I see my own intellectual development reflected as in a mirror, for to you, and to my intercourse with you, I owe my entrance upon this path of the noblest and most lasting enjoyment.
It is delightful to look back on such a past with the future so bright before us. . . .
Agassiz now returned to Munich to add the title of Doctor of Medicine to that of Doctor
