(Untitled), [22] [Dec] [1891]

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/19/1-2

Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC ([Versailles, France]) to "Mummy" [Lady Randolph Churchill] describing his journey to France, the soldiers he had seen in Versailles and a visit to the "Bon Marche" in Paris. He says that he would like to visit Baron [Moritz] Hirsch and that he almost wrote a letter which would have been "painful" to her due to his "fatigue, the passage, the strange food, the cold, home sickness..." The letter contains several passages and phrases in French.

Dates

Creation: [22] [Dec] [1891]

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