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the 16th. I am very sorry indeed to miss the event. I shall pick up some peice [[piece]] of Swiss embroidery to take her for a wedding gift. 
 
Such things are much cheaper here than in Paris. The buxom pink-cheeked peasant girls do the work outside the shop doors, in their pretty costumes.- Lucerne is a tiny Paris for pretty shops. 

As we have taken the money for our passage out of our allowance, we shall reimburse ourselves to that amount on receipt of the passage money. Our fare is 87 1/2 dollars from Paris to New York- We go to New York because all of us being very anxious to see Switzerland, something new to all of us, we did not want the added expense of going to Liverpool (en route to