Letter No. 46 Le Havre May 17, 1919
My dear Margaret,
Have reached the end of the first lap of my journey. We reached Paris last evening on time-7:30 pm, went to the same hotel Massilla near the Gar de Lyon and secured rooms for the night. With us was Miss Brennan's fiancé, Capt. Dowd. We had dinner on the train. I like the French dining car service-a good dinner for six francs.
After cleaning up, the Capt. Took us in a taxi to Poccardio's, the famous Italian restaurant, for dinner where we had delicious vegetable soup, French fried potatoes, salad, strawberry tart, and champagne. We walked the streets for a time then came home in a taxi about 11 pm.
Got up at 5:30 this morning, had breakfast at the Red Cross canteen, took a taxi across the city to the Gare St. Lasaire for the 7:30 express to Le Havre. Had a nice Captain with us as far as Rouen. By the way, on the return trip O hope to stop over in Rouen about seven hours between trains.
The weather is delightful and the country beautiful between Beaune and here-so many wild flowers and fruit trees in blossom. Reached Le Havre at noon. Quite a party of enlisted men, officers, ad about a dozen nurses enroute for England. The men go on a boat at 2 pm, but we wait for a better one at 9 pm.
Automobiles met us and took us to the necessary offices and will pick us up at this hotel at 8:30 pm. We buy tickets here through London as it is to our advantage getting them about five shillings more to one hundred francs than here. French money is going down steadily.
We had a box lunch on the train and are now going out to see the city as I did not see much of it the afternoon I spent last June,.
Hope to spend next Saturday-Empire Day-in London as American troops are to march in the parade.
Have heard that the Beaune University sails on the Leviathan June 20th, so watch the papers as we hope to go with them. Don't suppose we will be so fortunate though.
We're off for the sights.
Affectionately, Jane