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tuned, with out asking - A Miss Davis, a Boston Brookline lady great friend of the Conants - stout jolly spinster went with us. She is so much like Mrs Bickham and the Warrens that I asked her if she knew them and she said "Yes she knew them well!"  The Cathedral was lovely and had a little fine glass in it - most however had been restored and this is always ugly - but Quimper was what I imagined a small European town to be. And I was well satisfied with it.

Madame Valdenaire had a chicken washd [[washed]] for our supper when we got home and I wish you could have seen the tableau of May and Madame V. with one candle on the floor of [[Ni 'sch's?]] old work shop - which is full of old vegetables,- fish nets, canary birds, flowers, and tools - getting the 

Transcription Notes:
Quimper - small town in France