Hotel Meurice, Paris

Wedn^y April 11^th

My Dear Constance

I was in hopes of finding a letter from some of you, as I gave my address at this hotel. Perhaps a letter will arrive tonight or tomorrow. – If you have not written to me here, it is now too late, & my address will be at the Athenæum London – I travelled all last night which makes me feel a little tired today. – I wrote to you from Cannes and Nice and Lyons. I went from Lyons to Geneva by an interesting line of railway leading thro’ narrow defiles in the mountains and then by the side of the Rhone which gushes in a blue stream down a narrow rocky valley, through which the railway has been constructed with difficulty. From Geneva I took the rail along the Banks of the Lake to Lausanne & nearly as far as the Castle of Chillon. At Lausanne a magnificent new hotel has been constructed at Ouchy by the lake side it is called the Beau Rivage. The high mountains opposite were covered with snow. Thence I took the rail by the banks of the lake of Neufchatel, through Yverdun to Neufchatel a pretty little town which you will remember. There also is a fine new hotel the Bellevue, close to the lake, & I had a view of the mountains of the Bernese Oberland, the Jungfrau &c. &c. The view of them is the same as from Berne, but much more distant – From Neufchatel yesterday I took the railway thro’ the Val Travers to Pontarlier; – This line of railway is very romantic & even awful, it is on the brink of a precipice for several miles and there is no fence. I stopped some hours at a small provincial town called Dole to break the long journey, and then Continued all night to Paris arriving here a little past 5 in the morning

Your aff^te

Henry

I have only received one letter during my tour, it was from Rosamond. I received it at Cannes.