Alpine peaks - snow tipped-lake &
flower garden in fore-ground - charming
house-rooms on the lake -- Capt. B. very
handsome & devoted - all so wholesome
after Paris - the very values of the reforma-
tion & purity - band[?] in the afternoon and
bridge in the moonlight - Paris to Z. all
golden wheat-fields - E. limped out at
the frontier with one red slipper to see
the luggage bise'd[?] - Paris very nice -
cool as Sept. met MacLane's - opera
Faust with them - Massioni in a box
near us - Opera Frenchily put - Faust
remarkably sung - other parts fair
Late supper in a cafe' - The Mac
Lanes dear folks - hope to meet
again - shall meet again I nearly
forgot who I was, & my sound