| Title | Letter from Anna Maria Jones [née Eaton] in a Paris hotel to Hannah Eaton Evans of High Street, Haverfordwest, describing her life in Paris - the weather (wet), daily activities, meals (such as "calves brains boiled whole and garnished with cocks' combs"), learning to play the guitar and visiting the churches on Good Friday. Her husband Charles was learning to fence (a skill that he was planning to pass on to the "Llandewy swains" and doing antiquarian researches. She also mentions that the city is full of Spaniards (an "indolent race") and that Paris "is not the economical place it was". There are also references to friends & family, in particular to Xavier Peel and steeple-chasing, playing billiards and shooting at a wooden man with a pistol. |