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when the horse had just started, she would call
out breathlessly in her broken Swedish :—‘ Dear
Mr N. N. do stop him!’
However, anybody who did not know this,
would think her a great rider, from the way
she talked about her horsemanship.
In a letter to a friend and admirer in Berlin,
who had taught her dancing and skating, Sonia
describes her life in Stockholm in the winter of
1885:—
‘Dear Mr W., I feel very guilty not to have
answered your kind letter before. My only
excuse is, that my time has been taken up
of late by the most heterogeneous occupations.
I shall tell you what I have been doing.
‘First of all, I have to prepare three weekly
lectures in Swedish; I am lecturing about the
algebraic introductions to the theory of the
Abel-functions, which everywhere in Germany
are considered the most difficult subjects. I
have a large attendance, and till now have kept
all my hearers; only two or three have fallen off.
‘2. I have written a little mathematical essay,
which I am going to send to Weierstrass, asking
him to have it published in Borchardt’s Journal.
‘3. Mittag Leffler and I have commenced a
very important mathematical work, from which
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