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Hotel de Saxe Sunday April 19th 1874 830 PM
After dinner this evening I came over to my room and have been sitting here for the first half hour reading some good old bits from the old English reader- whose ancient brown leather cover delighted my eyes I do not know how many years ago in grandmothers cupboard at Oxford and many are the good ideas of sound moral reason which I have gained from its yellow pages since. Leaving church this morning, which was unusually full of fine looking Americans as the pleasant weather and gayety of Paris has called many of them from the South, I joined Marchandt and we came down as usual and took breakfast in the Rue de Rivoli after which we crossed the gardens and took a boat from the Port Royal out to Suresnes. The day was perfect and all Paris seemed to be enjoying the warm sun out of doors 

when we reached Long Champs we saw every body getting off to see the races and so we concluded to commence our walk back to Paris from there. a race was just starting as we ascended the bank and we stood. a moment to see the crowd of gaily dressed jockeys on their long thin horses dash by us and move swiftly round the turn over the bright green sward and the beautiful costumes one mass of brilliant color in the bright sunlight. It was the last heat and the crowd of people breaking up soon all the avenues back to Paris were choaked with carriages and pedestrians. We stopped at a café in the Bois and my latin Quarter economy was struck a dreadful blow by being obliged to pay F1.25 for a glace- During the past two months everything has passed off smoothly with me. I have kept steadily at work  although a              

Transcription Notes:
Suresnes is just west of Paris