I have spent almost all of the trip sitting on the platform and enjoying the sight of the queer peasants and the soldiers and old villages.

Tonight I shall be in "Paris, France" as Morton used to say and I shall get clean and put on my dress clothes but whether I shall go see Yvette Guilbert or Rusticana again I do not know.

Perhaps I shall just paddle around the fountain in the Place de la Concorde and make myself thoroughly at home.

With a great deal of love to Dad and Nora and Chas and all.
DICK.
At the time that Richard's first travel articles appeared some of his critics took umbrage at the fact that he was evidently under the delusion that he had discovered London, Gibraltar, Athens, Paris, and the other cities he had visited, and that no one else had ever written about them.

As a matter of fact no one could have been more keenly conscious of what an oft-told tale were the places that he had chosen to describe.