Letters

(includes letters written by Lord C at Paris while on a visit there to see the Exhibition. They are longer and more descriptive than usual) 'no attempt to conceal the general disappointment and restlessness... the shops are too beautiful - if I were a french girl I would not retain my virtue four and twenty hours' (15 Aug;) fair in the Place des Invalides, 'The Parisians can enjoy themselves - instead of our dull stupidity they chattered, laughed (and smelt)' (16 Aug); has engaged an entresol for £35 a week, 'went to Versaille - an enormous mistake of Louis 14th-externally a first class spinning manufactory-but the inside is magnificent' (17 Aug); the Louvre 'I shook hands with my old friends Vandyke's Charles - Paul Veroneses supper and the three portraits of Rembrandt - these continue to attract me the most', visit to the Chatelet (18 Aug); Fontainebleu, 'the most interesting place here' (19 Aug); 'They all say the Emperor is ill and has had leeches, his luck seems to be on the ebb' (20 Aug)