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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
lectures in Boston and New York. summer at Nahant. letter to Professor Peirce on the Survey of Boston Harbor. death of his mother. illness. correspondence with Oswald Heer. summer journey in the West. Cornell University. letter from Longfellow. The next important event in the life of Agassiz, due in the first instance to his failing health, which made some change of scene and climate necessary, is best announced by himself in the following letter. To his mother. Cambridge, March 22, 1865. dear mother,—You will shed tears of joy when you read this, but such tears are harmless. Listen, then, to what has happened. A few weeks ago I was thinking how I should employ my summer. I foresaw that in going to Nahant I should not find the rest I need after all the fatigue of the two last years, or, at least, not enough of change and relaxation. I felt that I must have new scenes to give me new life. But where to go and what to do? Perhaps I wrote you last year of the man