Correspondence, to Mary Snowden Cairns from Annie Brinkley Snowden, 1896 July 18

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Correspondence to Mary Snowden Cairns from her niece, Annie Brinkley Snowden, 1896 July 18. Annie was writing to her aunt from Geneva, Switzerland. She was traveling in Europe with her cousin, Mabel Brinkley.

"Geneva is so delightful. We are not impatient to move. As it is only necessary to stay a week at Chamonix and as we shall not want to go to Venice before the latter part of September we shall have a long while yet to remain here and make a second visit to Castellamonte...Yesterday afternoon Mabel took material to write letters and I my sketching pad. We got in a steam launch and were soon conveyed to Ariano. Here we stayed until six o'clock. We visited the beautiful museum which was collected and left to the public by a single gentleman. It is like a palace. When we entered the huge structure [we] found the floor of mosaic and the columns of pink marble. In one room were a number of paintings by the old masters."

Mary Jay Snowden Cairns was the sister of Robert Bogardus Snowden and Annie Brinkley Snowden was Robert Bogardus Snowden's daughter.

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sc.0065.002_011.002

Date

1896 July 18

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

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"Correspondence, to Mary Snowden Cairns from Annie Brinkley Snowden, 1896 July 18" (2023). Documents. 32.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-rbsnowdenfamily1/32