Item 82 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

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Haileybury - RJ stayed a week at Spa and then worked his way through the Flemish towns. He was disappointed with the architecture - 'all are gothic applied to purposes wide of those of the Gothic they are borrowed from and want the Grace of propriety where they want nothing else as it seems to me'. Conversely he was delighted with the pictures. 'The dreamy Germans are not trustworthy I have persuaded myself'.