In 1858 Lewis Vieusseux, 8 year old son of Louis and Julie Vieusseux, was lost in the Dandenongs during an outing of family and friends. The Vieusseux were proprietors of a Ladies School in Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. This is the story of the search from the letters of Alfred William Howitt, one of the party. In The La Trobe Journal, Spring 2004.