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76 BIOGRAPHY.
My husband’s appointment to another post was the cause
of our removal to Stockholm about the latter part of 1847.
This made Fredrika, the following year, consider the time
propitious for announcing her plans for travelling. She
thought that she might now set out, easy in her mind,
knowing that my husband and myself would be near my
mother and Agatha. We all certainly represented to her
the risk of the long voyage, which Fredrika intended to
undertake quite alone; but she would not listen to our
arguments. Agatha cried and was in despair at these
plans. In order to comfort her, Fredrika promised to
write to her all her letters from America. I do not deny
that it appeared to me really awful, that Fredrika, this
delicate little creature, should start quite alone on such a
voyage, and I did not understand how she could have the
courage to do it; but she never wanted courage; and I re-
membered her wish, when she was a child, to enter the
army and join the Swedish troops in Germany. ‘The only
consolatory thought for us at home was, that immediately
on Jredrika’s arrival in America, she would be met and
received by friends, who, although personally unknown to
her, had, after reading her works, invited her in the most
amiable manner to be a guest in their homes in New
York.
In August, 1848, Fredrika left home, paying first a visit
to her old friend and teacher, the Rev. P. Béklin, in Scania.
The autumn and following winter she spent in Copen-
hagen, and after several trips to the Danish islands during
the ensuing summer, she travelled to New York by way of
London.
I shall pause here a few moments in my narrative, in
erder to give some account of Fredrika’s first appearance
as an authoress.
It was during the year 1828 that, for the first time, the
thought arose in Fredrika’s mind of publishing the best of
all that she had written the previous years, in order thereby
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