Additional Manuscripts c

Announced that he has arrived in Cannes 'after a somewhat trying journey'. Recounts that he spent a morning in Paris, where he suffered the effects of a very cold North Wind. Refers to the tradition of selling [�trennes]. Reports that he spent some hours in the Louvre, and found that his feeling for Greuze had grown. Travelled on to Avignon that night, where he encountered a snow-storm. Remarks that the Palace of the Popes 'looks much more like a great barrack which it now is than like a palace'. He stayed in Marseilles on Wednesday night, and the next morning saw the Mediterranean for the first time. Complains that it has rained every day since he arrived. Reports that Symonds 'does not look at all well, but says he is better', and has sprained an ankle. Mentions that Montagu Butler is there, and that he intends to see him soon and hopes to hear about Hailey[ ] and AS Butler. Reports that Noel 'left a wideawake' with them, and asks her to send it to him in London. Asks her to keep carefully any letters about his room or else [ ] belonging to him that she may find. Reports that he had 'a melancholy business at Hastings dividing the library'; he could not take all the books. Remarks that this 'complete break-up, extinction of a family is very sad.'