| Description | Dated 18 April. Having been granted permission to come home, he embarked for Marseilles in a Maltese schooner on 11 March; reached Basel 10 April; on approaching Switzerland 'my children were astonished to see the snow, which they thought to be rain of paper'; the letter will be brought by a merchant friend of Brusa in Asia Minor, called Flubacher, a native of Basel. |