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1851-1860

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France

travel

health

To JAMES G. BREACH,1 [9] JUNE 1853

Text of first page from facsimile, and summary in Kotte Autographs online catalogue, May 2020.

Date: written 9 June, but misdated 10 June.

Tavistock House

Thursday Tenth June 1853.

My Dear Mr Breach.

I have been ill for a week,2 and am left a little pulled down. So I purpose coming to your excellent care, tomorrow (Friday)3 and staying until Sunday,4 when, if it be fine weather I purpose crossing5 to Boulogne for the summer.

He asks for a quiet and cheerful room for himself and his family.

1. James Gaby Breach (1803-82), proprietor of the Pavilion Hotel in Folkestone.
2. On CD's debilitating illness see To Lady Eastlake, 11 June 1853, in Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 95.
3. 10 June 1853.
4. 12 June 1853, when CD and his family travelled to Boulogne.
5. CD remarks, in a letter to W.H. Wills on 13 June, that he enjoyed "a delightful passage" to Boulogne (Pilgrim Letters 7, p. 98).