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They dress / neatly, + have their gowns made long enough to require / holding up in the present / fashionable manner. One / day there way a procession / in honour of the 'patronne' of / the Principality. Ste Dévote, / and the woman employed at Madame Blanc's laundry + perfume factory / appeared in gauzy veils + starched voluminous white robes — so stiff that they scraped the ground like tin. / Quite a contrast / to these people / are the fine / ladies who come / over from Nice / every afternoon. / We / are beginning / to understand now / the grieved looks our fellow travellers from / Marseilles (a lady and her two daughters [inserted above: 'going to Mentone']) when / we alighted at Monaco station; + when we / hear the firing of the pigeon-shooters we think that if the dove that in the / 3rd century towed the boat bearing the / body of Sainte Dévote into this harbour / had forseen what 'sport' would be pursued here in the 19th century it would have sought another haven / for its patronage. / I shall have / more to say about / this place in my next letter —. / Meanwhile I remain your dutiful / Corra.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Purchased from Mrs Marian Caldecott in 1899, alongside several other drawings (object numbers D.1 to 6-1899) and proofs ( object numbers E.17 to 354-1899).","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawings and manuscript for 'Letters from Monaco' for <i>The Graphic</i>, pen and ink on paper, by Randolph Caldecott, Monaco, 1877","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Monaco","id":"x30051"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Caldecott, Randolph (Mrs)","id":"C4212"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[{"text":"The Graphic","id":"A25336"}],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"dress","id":"x47499"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["D.4-1899"],"accessionNumberNum":"4","accessionNumberPrefix":"D","accessionYear":1899,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-09-24","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}