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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Munich 416
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 luxuries not to be had everywhere, but this is a large Hotel and at our 5 P.M. Dinner I count forty Eaters.
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 I discover that my photograph of the front of this house only takes in one half of it. They have an elevator, the first that I remember seeing here-
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 24th We find that our rooms with double windows (and being on a narrow side street) are nicely quite for sleeping and begin to hope that our stay her maybe pleasant.
¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 1 Today, at home in America, is the great annual day for thanksgiving…and recreation- The President’s proclimation [sic] seems to have no effect upon these Heathens and we shall miss our big dinner, Turkey, pumpkin pie, +c and the appreciative friends who would help us eat them, but, on the other hand, they will not have the pleasure of riding with us to see the fine-arts of Munich, or Mūnchen as the natives spell it..
¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 We have had a delightful ride in open carriages and seen much. Through streets always of good width , and generally very wide, who’s stone surface was everywhere covered with a slimy mud, like mortar, from the recent rains at night. And we saw several parties of street scrapers wallowing in it with their hoes, a large majority of each party being gross, dirty
¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 [-Propylées, or Kings Gate-]
Thanksgiving in Munich, RPW references, presumably, Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation of Oct. 3, 1863. RPW is regretful at missing his Thanksgiving dinner which sounds very like todays.