Robinson Letter

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Dear Mr Robinson,

I have only lately got home again, as I should have written to thank you for so kindly allowing me to go round our old house. It was most kind of you and I would have thanked you at the time, had I had the opportunity.

I wonder if the Drawing room still has the frescoed walls? The room was supposed to be the exact replica of a room discovered at Pompeii about 1793, and my great-grandfather had Italian artists over from Naples to paint the walls.

I did notice the painted glass window under the stairs (painted by the same artists) had disappeared.

With many thanks, yours sincerely, Frederic de Freville