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would look & smile as if at old friends back from exile. In the interior the long mysterious stretch of the grand-ness was rudly cut in half by an inundation of light from the great rose
windows - from the vast gastly wholes left by their taking out- Surly there never was such an embodyment of massivness & grace as is Notre Dame.

To those who are interested in Violet
le Duc the derobement of the St Chapel gives one a excepinal chance to see him in all his glory --- In the full sunlight as I passed the courts of Justice & crossed to the other side of the river- I looked from the massive towers of the courts down to the beautiful masonry of the imbankments and let my eyes follow their broad-smooth flanks down the bridge that seemed to be cut out of their mass & to have been left [[strikethrough]] their to hold them in place - [[/strikethrough]]

Transcription Notes:
Eugene Viollet-le-Duc - French architect who restored Notre Dame and the Sainte-Chapelle in the 19th century