1818] An Old Nurses Letter 121 



M. Recamier returns to Paris every evening. I did not 

 hear what Madame de Montmorenci does. 



Our restorateur's bill comes to a little more than 5 Na- 

 poleons a week, finding our own bread. Our washing 

 nearly 2 Napoleons, our bread about 17 francs. Butter, 

 milk and cream 1.10 per diem. Then there is water and 

 wood and numbers of other little things, but one certainly 

 lives cheaper here than one would do in London. . . . 



On June 24 the father, mother, Elizabeth and Charlotte 

 went to Switzerland, partly to place Frank and Hensleigh 

 with Mr Cheneviere at Geneva, where Harry had formerly 

 been. The two little girls were left at a boarding-school in 

 Paris during their absence of some months. Every Sunday 

 they passed in the Rue Truanderie with their cousin Madame 

 Collos. My mother told us how the house smelt of fish, and 

 how she could not bear little Louis. She wondered at her 

 mother's leaving two such little girls alone in Paris. In 

 September the whole family returned to Maer. 



M. Jones (their former nurse) to Fanny and Emma 



Wedgwood. 



MY DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS, CHESTER, Dec. 8, 1818. 



I have neglected you very long after your desiring 

 an answer, but I thought I should meet with an opertunity 

 and so I have. I was very happy you may be sure to se 

 a line from those whom I love and to hear of evry body 

 being got quite weU and I think Tritton your little Dog 

 must be a Treasure to you to go about with. I wish I 

 could come and go with you and se how much you are 

 grown. I am affraid of you ovr growing me at least by 

 recolection of old times when your legs was so short you 

 could not get up and down Maer Hills but used to ride 

 upon my back those were pleasant days endeed I am 

 very happy now with my aunt and Mrs Robberts two 

 old whomen for companions now not little Doveleys 

 Mrs Robberts is 84 years of age and my aunt is 74 both 

 very cheerfull and good tempered and me very busy from 



