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Hotel Westminster.
Paris, Wednesday, May. 4.
We left Lucerne yesterday at 7:30 A.M. in clouds and rain, which continued all day - and arrived here at 6 o’clock. Came to our old quarters - most homelike - with the smiling familiar faces of the Concierge and his wife - Emil the waiter, and the kind, deprecating femme de chambre - news of the successful battle at Manilla, and the triumph of Commodore Dewey. Poor Spain - I am full of sympathy for the brave Queen Christina who has done all she could to rule and direct the troublesome country. Today it has been storming violently, with bursts of alternate sunshine. Mary and I were settling ourselves this morning - and began with gowns and shopping this afternoon. She has gone to the Circus with Theodore and Monty this evening - and I am keeping our cheerful salon company, with a bright wood fire.

Paris May 14.
Since my last entry there has been nothing to write, except curses - deep and loud, against the weather. It has rained every day, persistently and continuously. I have not been out since the 4th, until yesterday, when I drove to Paquins a few doors off, and back. Theodore has had a great success with his Leonardo. She was invited to the Louvre, and compared with the Mona Lisa and the Madonna of the rocks. Braun has photographed her magnificently - and Theodore has given him the privilege of selling the photographs. Mary goes back home this morning. Jones and Amilie take her to the train, she has a compartment in the sleeping car which she does not leave until she reaches Pisa tomorrow night at 11 o’clock - where Nettie meets her, and spends the night, and the have most of the day together there before going back to Florence. We go at 11 o’clock tomorrow via Calais to London.

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Emma's diary entries which detail her and Theodore's stay in Paris, where they show off the 'Donna Laura Minghetti Leonardo' at the Louvre.

Creator

Claire Summa

Source

Andrews, Emma B.Journal on the Bedawin, Volume 5 : 1898 - 1899.

Original Format

Paper

Citation

Citation

Claire Summa, “Emma's diary: The Glory Tour (May 4 - 14, 1898),” The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project, accessed March 29, 2024, https://www.emmabandrews.org/project/items/show/128.

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