He found her "pretty, intelligent, lovable, clever, and gay," and, like him, "rather inclined to be satirical." They struck up a correspondence which shows him in most hilarious moods. His letters are full of that possenhaften Jargon with which he sprinkled his letters to his sister. He calls his cousin by the pet name of Bäsle, with which he rhymes "Häsle," a colloquial word for "rabbit."