Autograph letter signed : Mont St. Michel, to her mother, 1848 Sept. 9.

Published p. 128, with two omissions. Topics discussed: (1) [unpublished, beginning] she is glad Aunt Jessie has improved and thanks her mother for all the trouble about their linen: the cost for sewing and marking was very little. Mr. Ruskin writes that the conveniences of their house make it "quite a hit" with the servants. The children must be great gets: she will feel inclined to run away with a couple of them when she comes home; leaving Mortain they were amused by the impudence of their landlady in a card with bare-faced lies to recommend her strange and filthy inn. Travelling to Avranches by diligence, they heard an editor of a Paris newspaper discuss the distress caused by the Revolution. They also imagined Uncle Andrews' indignation when he said that the Romanists looked with respectful sympathy on the doings of the free church in Scotland; (2) [published, pp. 128-129] description of Mont St. Michel and environs; of Castle and its prisoners, of their evening walks; (3) [unpublished, conclusion] she is astonished that they have given up all thought of George's coming to London: this decision should not be affected by Mr. Ruskin, and John does not disapprove of George's coming. Local talk, e.g., her horror that one of the Cardies plans to marry "that odious man"; her disapproval of Mrs. Henry's bonnet--now worn by every milliner in London; what now is new in bonnets (in detail).