On February 21, 1870 he addresses Eufemia with words of comfort and admiration: "She has largely rendered her fatherland and her son-in-law the offices of daughter and mother: if others do not prove to be a brother, the pain belongs blame". In 1871 he defined it as "sweet fruit of the land of Cyprus". The letter of dec. 1873 is almost a definitive farewell from “his poor companion, who according to the words of God himself, did & nbsp; with me a whole life ".