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Correspondence to Mary Jay Snowden Cairns from her daughter, Elizabeth Walker Cairns, 1905 August 27. Elizabeth was writing to her mother from Paris, France. She updates her mother on her European travels.

"I hope Uncle B. isn't very ill, for I haven't received a single ___, not even newspapers, from him since I have been on this side. Nothing since my ___ letter received in N. J. It is very unusual for him, especially as I have written him four or five long letters. Rec'd a letter from Aunt A. yesterday telling of Miss Raudal's death, John F.'s illness, and Wm. Overton's marriage....the others going over to the Musee du Louvre. I did not feel like looking at old pictures. In the afternoon we went to Sainte-Chapelle, and afterwards went to the Magasins due Louvre...We caught the train to Versailles. Walked through the gardens, went through the Grand & Petit Trianon & through the stables where the royal coaches are kept and saw Marie Antoinette's diary. After lunch we went through the Palais or Chateau de Versailles...I hear that it is very cold in N. J. It is also cold in Paris, but we are glad of it, after the awful heat we had in Italy. I hope it will get cold in New Orleans and stop the fever...I hope John H. is proved only to be malaria and not typhoid. We head for Loudoun on Saturday. Don't send any letters to me after the twenty-third of September."

Mary Jay Snowden Cairns was the sister of Robert Bogardus Snowden and Elizabeth Walker Cairns was the niece of Robert Bogardus Snowden.

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sc.0065.002_006.004

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1905 August 27

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Cairns, Mary J., 1846-1930., Correspondence.

Correspondence, to Mary Snowden Cairns from Elizabeth Cairns, 1905 August 27

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