[July 31, 2008 ... I'm still working on transcribing letters from this collection; perhaps I'll find the rest of this letter and will be able to restore it to its rightful place.]but "demonstrations" are forbidden so I suppose there will be no bands. The only parade of the military which Freiburg has had since the War was two days ago, a lovely band and perhaps two companies of police, just to show the troublemakers (mostly unemployed toughs) that the police are on hand.
I can't remember when I wrote last but I hope I sent you at least a card from Maloja. That is one heavenly spot, up in the Engadine at the top of the pass. On one side the Inn tumbles down over a mountain-side and goes ultimately to the Danube and the Black Sea. On the other the water-falls come from glaciers and snow-fields to make a nice stream in the Val Bregaglia and thus out to the Italian Lakes and the Adriatic. We went both ways, indeed more than that, for we went up to glaciers which fed these streams in various places. We were at about 6000 feet at Maloja so the tree line was only a little above. That meant meadows literally overflowing with flowers and there a little higher slopes that were mixtures of grass and stones and with many many of the tiny flowers I like so much. Charlotte says we identified over a hundred and there were lots we didn't find out the names of, either because our books were too poor (they are only fair) or because the flowers we so much like those at home or they weren't pretty enough to interest us. I haven't an unlimited power of walking but I've done a good deal, and sometimes sent Charlotte on ahead to see more that I was quite able to do. But I'm surely lots better than when I started. I hurt one ankle rather badly falling stupidly over a steamer chair on the boat. I didn't quite fall, but I raked the chair along my shin cruelly and pulled on my ankle. It was just dumb stupid! In Copenhagen it was swelling and hurting a good deal so the folks there x-rayed it for me kindly (no charge! young M.D.'s I knew last year.) and there was no fracture. They thought there might be a crack that would cause trouble even though the bones were not displaced. They gave me a bandage to control the swelling and let me walk all I wanted to. It has gradually gotten better, is all right now except for one little bunch which is decreasing. It really has kept me from very little.
I'll but [sic] in a Switzerland card for Mrs. Groves, and one from here for you. I send hers to you so you can see it - it's not at all more flowery than what we saw all the time. The snow mountains and glaciers were wonderful. Charlotte got quite excited for he had never seen such things before, either flowers or high mountains. And I sure loved it.
[Unsigned but written by Abby Turner]