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British Museum, worked hard until four o’clock ; but 
was not able quite to finish, so I left my copy of 
Gronovius, in which I was making notes, with Mr. 
Bennett to keep for me until my return in the autumn, 
and took leave of Brown and Bennett. Went to Dr. 
Boott’s; saw Mrs. and Miss Boott, who insisted upon 
giving me a note of introduction to a friend of theirs 
in Florence ; went to the City, dined with Putnam, 
down to Well-close Square, took my tea, and bid 
good-by to Ward and family, and Mr. Quekett. . . . 
TO THE MISSES TORREY. 
Paris, March 18, 1839, Monday evening. 
T am now at the Hotel de ’Empereur Joseph IL, 
Rue Tournon, prés du Palais du Luxembourg. Here I 
have been established for about half an hour, and my 
first business shall be to fill this sheet for you. I sup- 
pose I must begin at the beginning and tell you how 
I came here. Voila. Ileft London at nine o’clock 
in the morning of the 14th inst. (Thursday), stop- 
ping on my way to the steamboat which was to 
take me to Boulogne, to leave a parcel of letters at Mr. 
Putnam’s office, to be forwarded to dear friends at 
home. It was a nasty, rainy morning; and our boat 
was, as indeed I expected, not very oamiortable. The 
cabin was well enough, but much too small for the 
accommodation of some fifty or sixty persons, and 
there was no covering to the deck, nor any deck-cabin, 
except two dirty little places for the poorer passengers, 
who were not allowed the use of ours; so we had our 
choice the whole day between the soaking in the rain 
upon the deck and the close atmosphere of the crowded 
cabin. Of course I was vibrating between the two 
dilemmas the whole day, but took as much pains as I 
