Pièce 261 - Letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Sir George Trevelyan

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Hotel Pas-de-Calais, rue des Saint Pères. - Is in Paris for a few days on his way home; Bessie and Julian seem to have had a 'most enjoyable visit to Holland'. Is seeing many people 'of all kinds... both old Parisian friends and new': has got to know André Gide, who 'perhaps interests me as much as any of the younger French writers'. Will be home on Monday, and after the three days of the Lake Hunt at Whitsuntide, will 'spend the summer quietly at the Shiffolds'.

In Paris 'there are few or no small coins, so everyone pays in stamps'; the 'tramways etc' sometimes try to refuse these, but have to take them 'as there is nothing else'. The exchange is 'about 60p to the £'; it was about 100 lire in Italy one day, but has improved a little since. Sends thanks to his mother for her letter, which reached him yesterday; will write when he gets home. The weather is almost too hot. Goes to Versailles this afternoon, for the first time since he was a child; he went, probably with his father, the first time he went to Paris..