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Title: Eight journeys abroad
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rosengarten, Mary D. Richardson, 1846-1913 Rosengarten, Frank H
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Algeria -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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real of its kind. I am disappointed at not being able to go about more andexpect it will be the same in Paris. While I was on the westcoast in the fresh bracing air I could do so much, and then thenights were quiet and restful, but here the bad air and noiseaffect my head and I just have to leave the shops after an houror more. The thing we have enjoyed most was a ride on topof an omnibus which we took unexpectedly down the Strand,Chancery Lane, past Lincoln Inn and High Holborn with oneblock of old timbered houses, one of the last bits of old Lon-19 289 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD don, through IsHnglon and the Angel Inn and the house whereSir Walter Raleigh lived, which was told us by the bus driver.The old furniture and silver almost drive me wild and tofeel that I cannot get to them, ior everything is so scatteredthat you cannot get about unless you have weeks. I haC^eabout made up my mind that no one must expect anything ofme, that I cannot travel and shop too, it is too much effort. I
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ox THE OMNIBUS, LONDON cant seem to decide on things and my only way is to go toone place and let them furnish everything. I worry and stewto try and get the right thing and it isnt worth while. We went to see Irving and Terry Wednesday night. Terrywas sick but the woman who took her place was fine, and itdidnt seem it could be better played. The play was fine butthe audience was ugly and the house dark and gloomy, andyou pay 3^ dollars for what you pay i>^ or 2 at home. Nowonder for the theatres are so small. I must stop, it is goingto rain and I hear that the weather will change and only hopefor decent weather to cross the channel. Love to all, AflFy., M. D. R. 2go ENGLAND The Hotel Metropole,My Dear Boys, London, Sunday, July i8, 1897. Here we are still and with little hope of getting away be-fore Tuesday and then only if your Mother gets over one ofher headaches. She wants to go on, is thoroughly sated withLondon and its extravagant prices. The weather is lovely.The present int

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