Your lines of July 8 fill me equally with esteem for the writer and with joy, for they show me a young lady making earnest efforts to enrich her mind with the incomparable treasures of science; and it causes me the more pleasure that my writings are among those which have attracted your interest and attention. I only wish that my writings may find many such readers of your sex. Accept the assurance of high esteem with which I sign myself
Justus Liebig
Munich, July 13, 1861
From Levin Schücking Elvira received three lines dated from Rome:
The Lord give thee a time of stillness, warm air, and a quiet heart.
The next leaf bears inscriptions from three Vienna authors:
Wenn du dem toten Buchstaben trauest
If you trust in the lifeless letter,
Then, dear girl, most wrong are you.
In the eye is the sole true language,