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Rh for fear it might have had any influence on the direction of your intended tour. But now all will be well, and I shall only say that we are counting the days and hours until we shall have the happiness of seeing you, and you will, on entering Hanover, have only to direct your postilion to the Markt Strasse, No. 453, where the arms of my brother and sister, as well as mine, are longing to receive you, and till then Believe me, my dearest nephew, Your faithful and affectionate aunt, P.S.—I beg my respects to. . Blumenbach, and I shall ever remember with many thanks the visit with which he honoured me when last at Hanover.

H, Oct. 14, 1824. 2em My dear nephew has now been gone a week, and I follow him in idea every inch he is moving farther from us, and think he must now be near the water. I am at this moment in the greatest panic imaginable, for we have had all the week much rain, and now it blows a perfect hurricane. I shall not send this till I have heard from you that the dear traveller is safely at home, for it would be cruel to augment your anxiety, which I know you are feeling till you see him again.

[Here follows a long history of the younger members of the Griesbach family, with details of the events of seventy years before.]

. . . . I have not yet done, my dear Lady Herschel, and shall not be easy till I have given some little account of my brother's [Dietrich's] family, merely for yours and my dear