"Down in the street comes a man walking on his own - top hat, cigar, umbrella: it's my dear guitar-pupil John Edholm coming for a lesson [past the neighbour's fence]. From the veranda there are a few steps down to the ground level, where sandy paths edge the flower-beds with their tulips, peonies and roses, a summer-house, lilac-bushes and a herb-garden. The main building is a yellow-painted single-story house under a four-sided tile roof ...

"Behind this idyll - now disappeared - rise up taller, more densely-populated, and more modern buildings. Here we can see the optical telegraph on the roof - though nowadays we have the electrical telegraph network.

"The Union flag (Sweden-Norway) waves over the Southern Theatre. the music which comes form there can be heard right across the water. Stone-masons, painters and tinsmiths are at work on the modern blocks of flats at Mosebacke Square, but we still get an uninterrupted view across from St Catherine's to the church on Knight's Island new cast-iron spire and the many windmills on Brunkeberg Ridge. Ma'moiselle Sjöberg has captured a little breeze of that same youthful freshness that the author August Strindberg rendered in a view from Mosebacke a decade or so later..."