{London,] 4 August 1874 

Dear Kugelmann, 

About a week ago I wrote your dear wife a few lines,” telling 
her of the death of my only grandson* and the serious illness of 
my youngest daughter.” This was not an isolated but rather an 
acute outbreak of an illness from which she has long suffered. 
Eleanor is now up again, much sooner than her doctor (Madame 
Dr Anderson-Garrett) had dared to hope. She is able to travel, 
though of course still delicate. Madame Anderson thinks the 
Karlsbad waters will help considerably to restore her health, just as 
Dr Gumpert ordered rather than recommended me to go there. It is 
naturally difficult for me to leave Jenny‘ now (I mean 1n about two 
weeks). I am in this respect less stoical than in others and family 
afflictions always hit me hard. The more one lives, as I do, almost 
cut off from the outside world, the more one is entangled in the 
emotional life of one’s own circle. 

You must send me your exact Karlsbad address by all means 
and, in particular, make my excuses to your wife and Franzchen * 
for not answering their kind and affectionate letters. 

Your 
K. M.