Trondheim, 8 July 1890 

We're about to sail for North Cape and I don’t want to miss sending you 
a line from Trondheim. Have just eaten the best lobster I’ve had in my 
life and there was some very passable beer to go with it; have also seen a 
big waterfall. We sail at 9 o’clock, calling first at Tromsø and then at 
North Cape, after which we return via various Norwegian fjords and 
arrive back in the Thames on the 26th of this month. The weather has 

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been pretty good up till now, though yesterday was wet, but it’s fine 
again today. I like the people pretty well; the girls wear a kerchief on 
their heads just as at home, and one feels one must have already run into 
them at some time or another in the Siebengebirge or the Eifel. But my 
pen is atrocious and it is only with difficulty that I have scrawled my 
way as far as this. 

Much love to Emma and your children, Rudolf, Mathilde, Hedwig, 

etc.? 

Your 
Friedrich