Public Activity 105 never left Ellen Key. "Our different ex- periences and opinions cannot break these ties," she once wrote. When she no longer had Sundsholm to go to, she often spent her vacations with her sister Ada, between whom and herself the tenderest affection exists, in spite of their dissimilar views of life. During these visits to Visby, she learned to know and love Gotland, making excursions on foot through various parts of the island. Since her sister's family moved to Karlstad Ellen has often spent her Christmas holidays there. Of Ellen's brothers and sisters, three are living: one brother, the agriculturist Mac Key who has two children—a son Ivar and a daughter Ellen; the sister Ada, nearest to her own age, and married to Director Petterson, has no children ; but her youngest sister, and first pupil, Kedda, married to Architect Yngve Rasmussen in Gothenburg, has five children. In these seven nieces and nephews Ellen Key finds compensation for being without children of her own. Since her removal from Stock- holm in the spring of 1893, Ellen has spent the time between her travels abroad partly with her friends, the Gibson family, at Jon- sered, and partly with her brother then living at Oby farm in old Varend County. During