I hope to be in Paris either for the Easter or for the Whitsun
vacation--that is, either about the 24th of March or the 5th of May
next--and I trust to find you and Madame de Tocqueville, if not quite
flourishing, at least quite convalescent.
Ever yours,
N.W. SENIOR.
[Footnote 1: Republished in the _Biographical Sketches_. Longmans:
1863.--ED.]
[Footnote 2: The letter to which this is an answer is not to be
found,--ED.]
[Footnote 3: This letter is not to be found.--ED.]
[Footnote 4: Published in 1868.--ED.]
[Footnote 5: That of the Emperor.--ED.]
CONVERSATIONS.
_Paris, May_ 9,1853.--I drank tea with the Tocquevilles. Neither of them
is well.
In February they were caught, on their journey from Tocqueville to Paris,
by the bitter weather of the beginning of that month. It produced
rheumatism and then pleurisy with him, and inflammation of the bowels
with her; and both are still suffering from the effects either of the
disorder or of the remedies.
In the summer Paris will be too hot and Tocqueville too damp. So they
have taken a small house at St. Cyr, about a mile from Tours, where they
hope for a tolerable climate, easy access to Paris, and the use of the
fine library of the cathedral.
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