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On our way to Wiesbaden Saturday September we stopped a few hours at the Hotel Angleterre at Frankfurt - & of said Hotel I would warn all travellers - for the land-lord charged us just double for our Dinner
what it was worth &c what we had engaged to pay for it.
Amsterdam Friday Sep 10th - We were delighted with Wiesbaden - its charming shady walks & [--ires], gay shops & superb Kursaal, where as a general thing a more respectable class of people congregate than at Baden. The finest band I ever heard played three times a day at the Kursaal & I shall long remember the exquisite waltz that woke me from my slumbers last Sunday Morning at about seven o'clock - an inexpressible bore if the music had not been so very fine. we took a bath each day from the "Roch [?] bunnen" in the Hotel Rose" where we were staying, but I declined to drink of the waters in spite of their rumor'd resemblance to chicken broth for which I have a decided penchant. We drove to the Greek
Part of Jane Bigelow Diary, 1859-1860