| Description | Letter dated 19 May 1867 to Macdonald from George Reid, R.S.A., Rouen, with description of a wet Sunday evening, sketch of J.F. White smoking a pipe, 'we had a great day of it among the churches .. surely if ever a city was priest ridden this is … a more filthy, evil savoured, foul-smelling place I never yet put foot in', appreciation of the cathedral architecturally, account of Mass there: 'The place was passably well filled by a congregation 99 per cent of whom were women and children …and it is scarcely to be wondered at, for how any sensible well-educated man could put up with all the mummery and tinselly trumpery shew I cannot well imagine', studies of heads of priests, witnessing a church festival by accident, amusing account with sketches of the local 'gaurd nationale'. |