The Master of the Shell
By Talbot Baines
29 Aug, 2019
Brief Extract...“I have been quite lazy about sketching in the last few days. I can’t tell you how lovely some of the sunsets have been. It is the regular thing to sit out in the hotel grounds and watch them. I wish so often you could be here to
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Brief Extract...“I have been quite lazy about sketching in the last few days. I can’t tell you how lovely some of the sunsets have been. It is the regular thing to sit out in the hotel grounds and watch them. I wish so often you could be here to share my pleasure, for papa and mamma are afraid to sit out, and Arthur is so unpoetical! There are a great many Americans here. The fashion of short steeves seems quite to be coming in again! I shall have to get mine altered as soon as I come home. Some of our party went up the Rigi to-day. The view from the top was beautiful, but the place is spoiled by the crowds of people who go up. I so much prefer the quieter excursions." Less