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dressing - I cannot understand why they don't wear lighter clothes, if they dont want to "de'collelatee. It used to so at the theaters in Paris, now they dress almost as much as for the Opera. Is Mr Gerard from Geneseo N.Y?  If so he was a beau of Mollie Scotts & isnt he of the Fitzhugh family thru’ his Mother? If so one of my earliest recollections is of a great uncle of his M. Fitzhugh, when I was a little girl in Paris.  He used to come to our house - [[Broun?]], Ellen Mary, I might to say is deeply interested in the authoress of "Elizabeth & her German Garden" who is a Ctess von Arnim, she is now a widow or was divorced before her husbands death, Mrs Spencer got her son to promise to ask about her, won't you if you get a chance. She is an English woman - Have you read the book? and others of hers you can find them in the Tauchnitz & they will amuse you - I hope you will enjoy being [[presented?]], the Empress isnt agreeable & "finds fault with every thing" so I heard this afternoon. It is the men who are decoration in Germany, with their uniforms.  The Emperor