BRACERS Record Detail for 130782
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An excerpt from a letter to Sir John Barran found in the Charles Hamilton Auction catalogue, no.1 (16 May 1963).
BR vows to return to England again, writing: "America is fun: ... Chicago (where I haven't been) is exactly like Florence in the Renaissance (where, also, I happen not to have been present). Boston is like England, Washington is like Paris, New York is like Ricardo's theory of rent (the houses are 20 stories high), & the people generally are quiet, timid idealists, very impractical & sentimental, & despising wealth ... I flourish, as the parson put it, like the green bay horse...."
BR TO JOHN BARRAN, 22 DEC. 1896
BRACERS 130782. ALS. B&R J63.01
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America is fun: ... Chicago (where I haven't been) is exactly like Florence in the Renaissance (where, also, I happen not to have been present). Boston is like England, Washington is like Paris, New York is like Ricardo's theory of rent (the houses are 20 stories high), and the people generally are quiet, timid idealists, very impractical and sentimental, and despising wealth ... I flourish, as the parson put it, like the green bay horse....
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