Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society (1916) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...drives are varied and most interesting--the Esplanade the finest I ever saw. You can drive for miles on the seaside--then turn into the country, where there are lovely, quiet cottages and churches, such as only England can afford. Such numbers of beautiful, rosy children I never saw at so small a place, Every step we come upon groups with their nurses--another product of England's surpassing all other nations in this respect. It is not rare to see five or six little girls, all dressed alike and varying from two to ten years old, and one or two baby boys, all belonging to the same family--all looking blooming and healthy. I could not think of any spot more enjoyable than this for a few months' residence, if not a fugitive from our own comfortable home, but under present circumstances I must say I regret my own dear home and all its surroundings. But I was always too happy in it, and must now be thankful that I have had so many blessings and still enjoy enough. I only pray God to stay this war, that all France may not be devastated--the poor peasant deprived of his all. As it will require years to repair all the dire destruction done in Paris alone--if it is ever repaired--the destruction of private property alone is irreparable. "Please give our love to all inquiring friends. I wrote you the 23rd of July--have not heard from you since. Good-bye. I hope my next letter will be dated Paris, though I hardly dare utter such a hope. "Your ever sincere "AGNES. "Theodore and Fannie are in Switzerland, Their house was thought to be condemned, being outside the fortifications and opposite the Bois de Boulogne. They have had all their furniture removed to a place of safety--that is, if Paris is not bombarded, in...