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St. Petersburg May 30. 1851

My Dear Myrtilla

We arrived Safely & cast anchor at the Guard Ship at Cronstadt last Sabbath at 1 oC PM (25^th inst.) & I should have written you immediately, but thought I would wait until I arrived here where I expected to find letters from you—In this however I have been sorely disappointed & have waited for them up to the present time in vain. I suppose you did not expect we should have so short a passage, or did you forget that you were to write in two weeks after my departure—I do not chide you, but Ezra found his letter here as he had expected & have reason to fear that something has happened I hope you are not sick, or that you have been called to watch a-round the Sick bed of one of our little ones—I have had but little else to think of since I left you, I can hardly enjoy any thing now until I hear. From Elsinore I wrote you an a/c of health & prosperity on the voyage which you have probably ere this received—Our passage through the Bathe was delightful—& we remained long enough at Elsinore & receive the hospitality of our Danish friends—& to visit the Elegant Old Castle of Cronborg near the City—Here as you will see in your reading Queen Matilda wife of Christian VII & sister of George III was imprisoned—We say the room which held the imperial Captive—In 5 days from the time I wrote before were were in Cronstadt—with an immense fleet of other ships passing in sight of Copenhagen (the public buildings of which we could examine quite minutely with our glass). the islands of Bornholmd (Danish) Oland & Gottland (Swedish) the pretty spires of whose thickly villages & towns we could see all along the latter island for 150 miles (I counted 15 at one time with a single sweep of the eye) As before, we outsailed every thing around us, & this was by far the most pleasant part of our voyage—such beautiful nights—I did not at any