Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-01-16
A TRIP 70 EUROPE---LEITER no. a.

Hotel Csoil, Strand w. c., Lon-
don, Sept. %, 19O6.--I have been
meaning to write to you all for some
time, but thought / would wait until
/ had something new to write about.
We arrived in London a couple of
days ago and since then have been
revelling in the English language,
even to the advertisements - and
read every one come to. You see
these are the first in nearly FIVE
months.
London is great place, and 30
large you can't imagine it being filed
up with very large old buildings,
seeming very dignifed, as much as
TO say that they've had their share
in making the worlds history.
I'ys taken in the Piooadilly, Re-
gent Street, Park Lane, Hyde Park,
Ludgate Circus, and all the places
you read 80 much about.
/ also attended morning service at
Westminster Abbey. 1t was beauti-
full, the organ having the most beau
tiful tone of any I ever heard. A
great part of the service was sung by
very fine choir. AS I sat and list-
ened l couldn't help wondering if
some of my old ancestors hadn't sat
right there in times past, for some
how believe that some of them had
something to do with the making of
London, for in the Abbey yard are
monuments to many Sir Lewises,
and regret now not sparing time to
take off some of the epitaphs.
1 couldn't begin to tell you what
the Abbey looks like inside, except
that the stained glass, ceiling and
everything are very fine, while all
around the edges are monuments to
the memory of England's great men.
l noticed great many being con-
nected with our revolution, and
among them are Pitt and Fox, two
men whose names are always coupled
together because they were such bit
ter enemies, and now they have two
of the finest monuments in the
Abbey, and are sleeping their last
sleep almost together. There is
also very fine monument to Wolfe
and many others of men connected
with American history.
1 bought some post card pictures
of the Abbey, and finally sent them
all to Aunt s. and you, as thought
you all would appreciate them more
than anybody else.
1 am afraid I won't see as much of
London as ! had hoped to, for Mr..
H was very upwell all of day be-
fore yesterday, and we've scarcely
left the hotel.
Day after to. morrow we leave here
for Boulogne, where we take the
steamer for New York, and, although
l have enjoyed my trip immensely,
you can't imagine how glad I am
that we are homeward bound. We
have travelled nearly ten thousand
miles since leaving home, and I've
seen the greatest cities of the great
countries of the world - hustling
New York, where everybody seems
to be way behind in their work and
in hurry to catch up; sober Berlin,
with its wide streets and easy-going
people, which is model place for
New Workers to rest up; wild and
woolly st. Petersburg, giving yon an
idea of what things looked like in
eye olden times;" happy. .go.luoky
Paris, where they try to make every
thing pleasant to the eye, with it's
fast women and little insignificant
men, and last, but not least by any
means, is London, with its fine old
pile of buildings, it's narrow, wind
ing streets, the whole city seeming to
be very stern and dignitied, like come
old parent who has a refractory
child to deal with, and l guess she
does have hard time ruling all
those dominions that the sun never
sets on. Seems to me the sun must
have set on few anyway, for they're