Excerpt from An American Child in Europe: The Impressions of a Little Girl, During a Year's Travel in the Old World

Father had gone over to Carlsbad two months earlier and had agreed to meet us in London so there were four Of us who left our home in America together, mother, my brother Edwin and I and my aunt Nellie, who went over with us to study German. This was in June and the ocean trip was a delightful one, long, lazy days, almost all of them pleasant. I was What people called a good sailor and did not mind even the times it was rough and the ship tossed about. Brother and I had break fast and luncheon with mother and auntie, but at night we had a light supper, just right for children, at half-past five, and soon after that We went to bed. Then mother and auntie.

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