1839 Oct 17-19. Sarah Gurney from Aix en Provence to Catherine Buxton, about her journey with Hannah Buxton, …
1839; Gale Group;
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pp 1-4 1839 Oct 17-19. Sarah Gurney from Aix en Provence to Catherine Buxton, about her journey with Hannah Buxton, Richenda and Charles, the state of Hannah's health, her own homesickness, the sketching, Bible readings and other studies of the younger members and the daily Italian lessons in the carriage. She later reports that they had been delayed by floods and heavy rain at Muy, ten miles from Fréjus, where the boys were able to go over the flooded fields in a raft but their conversation with the lower servants in the inn was hampered by the latters' inability to speak French. She describes the flooded scene outside the inn and their recent journey from Avignon through Nimes, where they visited the Pont du Gard, the Maison Carré, the amphitheatre and other antiquities, on to Arles where they toured the town and were joined by Richards, who had been to Marseilles, then to Aix over a bad road and through uninteresting country. She urges Catherine to continue sending letters containing news of the children to them in Florence until further notice. She assures her that though they had had no carpets since leaving Paris they did not mind the brick floors and did not find them cold as Catherine had feared. She thanks M.A.C. for her sketching bag. Finally she announces that they would leave for Fréjus the next day as the rain had stopped and travellers coming from there had said that the road would then be possible.
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