In his country--I think I told you in my last letter that he was a Frenchman--a famous physician is ennobled by the State.

I shall leave no stone unturned, my dear, to push my husband forward.

And when he is made a Baron, we shall see what my father will say to us then." _Number II._ 1810.--"We have removed, my Julie, to this detestably dull old German town, for no earthly reason but that the University is famous as a medical school.
"My husband informs me, in his sweetest manner, that he will hesitate at no sacrifice of our ordinary comforts to increase his professional knowledge.

If you could see how the ladies dress in this lost hole of a place, if you could hear the twaddle they talk, you would pity me.

I have but one consolation--a lovely baby, Julie, a girl: I had almost said an angel.