Psellos wrote a tragic letter to Konstantinos, nephew of Keroularios. Konstantinos had sent him a fish, which reminded him of those sent by his uncle decades ago. The letter compares Konstantinos' house full of family with his own isolation. Among Konstantinos' companions are the children of his first marriage, especially Charistikarea (?), Psellos' favourite, and his second wife and her young child. Psellos, by contrast, is on his own, apart from meeting the ex-empress Eudokia. As for his family, he knows where his daughter Styliane was buried and the convent where his wife was immured. His adoptive family were not with him, and he did not know if they were alive or dead