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Amsterdam - Hotel Trelen - Sep 11th
More like home - Philadelphia particularly - the delicious bread & butter - the India [--tle] china & deep old times blue & white [-octelle] sets - the venetian blinds - & profusion of brass headed nails in the chairs & sofas - the perfect cleanliness of the streets & houses - the tremendous scrubbing & cleaning that I have witnessed this Saturday morning has [ap--ted] to make the resemblance more striking between this substantial quaint Dutch city & that of our Quaker ancestors. We reached here yesterday in time for dinner at the table de Cote at 4 & I tasted for the first time since leaving America a well cooked piece of roast beef - Today at breakfast I had with my chocolate buns almost as good as Mame Widderfields - Penn's city again brought to mind - we took a valet de place at 9 1/2 & went through the King's palace equal to anything I saw in Italy & superior in some respects for it had an air of comfort in some of the rooms
Part of Jane Bigelow Diary, 1859-1860