Letter from George du Maurier, Paris, to Emma du Maurier, after 1863 : autograph manuscript signed with initial.

Saying "Here we are at least after a most fatiguing journey, starting at 8:40 and arriving here at 12 today - in all nearly 16 hours. We had a very good passage, and managed to sleep a good deal, but then at the last moment we decided to be in for another pound and go first class; I believe I should now be knocked up completely had it not been for this, as the second class was crowded, and on the boat, beastly. Tenniel never came after all, nor even wrote; Tom, Denlock & I dined together - We have taken up our quarters at present at the Hotel du Helder, Rue du Helder, but shall try and manage something more comfortable & less beastly dear - 5 fr. a night for a filthy little room like a dark closet, and perhaps buggy - any how write there by return to that I shall hear on Sunday - Just walked here through the familiar place Vendome & it seemed so fancy. We are now in the act of taking our 2'd dejeuner in what seems to be a very caddish hole...We shall now stroll towards the habitation. I trust you are all jolly & comfortably settled by this time; after you had left I felt I should have liked to give up this Paris trip, and now I am so tired that I almost wish myself in Ramsgate - There is such a glare too & my spectacles are a great comfort - Kiss the chics and give my love to Mr. B. I will write again when I heard from you - & write to me Hotel du Helder / Rue du Helder / Boul. des Italiens;" adding, in a postscript, "Martha wept at saying good bye."