Autograph letter signed with initials : [Paris], to [Jane Brookfield], "Sunday" [1849] Sept. 2[-3].

Describing the day before: noting he sketched in the "Twillery" gardens during the day and dined with Jules Janin at a "jolly little Restaurateur's on the Champs Elysées at the sign of the Petit Moulin Rouge;" describing the other couples dining, noting that several of them went on to the dancing garden of Mabille and mentioning that he may have done so too but for a terrible rain storm. Recalling that he also attended a farce and ran into three acquaintances later in the evening. Noting that Janin is always happy and "had never known any such thing as blue devils or repentance or satiety;" remarking that he had "great fun giving him authentic accounts of London." Disparaging the pictures he saw at the Exhibition and remarking that it was "curious" to tour the "vast dingy rooms" Tuilleries through which so many dynasties have passed. Recalling a visit to a pious young man in Blenheim the year before. Continuing the letter on Monday: Remarking that the man who was to hand-carry his letter has gone off, noting that he is therefore not sending a sermon or picture for Anny because he does not want to pay the postage. Reporting that he went to a comic play the night before; mentioning that his old aunt is still alive and describing his last visit to her; wishing he was going to dine at Portman Street as he did last week.