The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, August 27th, 1901.

A bright day but uncomfortable & boisterous. After breakfast I was shaved by the ladies: & fetched my 'Pilot' & a letter from Carissima from the Post. Then we visited a section of the National Museum, containing antiquities & curiosity illustrative of Swedish life. About lunchtime the rain began, & fell vehemently, so that there was nothing left to do but write letters. Mrs Reichel lent me Ibsen's "A Doll's House" which I read through with interest. I wrote to Perkins & Carissima. After dinner – the rain having now ceased – we strolled about the city for two hours. The scene is singularly beautiful. Nature retains her freedom while accepting the yoke of a great city. We ascended the great elevator, which commands a splendid bird's eye view of Stockholm, and were richly rewarded for our exertion. In the whole course of our stroll we met but two drunken men, & they were sailors, probably ashore from some foreign ship.