Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . tumn we returned to Mr. Phelpss house, and sold 167Madison Avenue,^ as Mr. Phelps wished us to live with him. My father and mother and sisters Olivia and Dora went abroad thisautumn, and remained more than a year. After spending some timein England and France, they were in November at Nice. 1868 Brother James and sister Caroline sailed January 10, 1868, andjoined them in Rome. My brother Willie was at Mr. Ladeuxs board-ing-school at Nyack. After driving around a great deal on Long I
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . tumn we returned to Mr. Phelpss house, and sold 167Madison Avenue,^ as Mr. Phelps wished us to live with him. My father and mother and sisters Olivia and Dora went abroad thisautumn, and remained more than a year. After spending some timein England and France, they were in November at Nice. 1868 Brother James and sister Caroline sailed January 10, 1868, andjoined them in Rome. My brother Willie was at Mr. Ladeuxs board-ing-school at Nyack. After driving around a great deal on Long Island, in WestchesterCounty and New Jersey, and on Staten Island, we decided to hire theJohn M. Pendleton place on Staten Island as a country place for thefollowing season. In February, 1868, father was in Rome, where he had fever.* Inthe spring of 1868 brother James and sisters Olivia and Dora left ^ See her portrait opposite. See pp. 188, dated October 5, 1867. My sister Caroline had Roman fever in April. In May she was better, and they werein Milan May 12, 1868, and at Baveno June 4, 1868. C202]. GLION them and went to the Holy Land, etc. They were all in Switzerlandin August, and in Paris in September. While at Glion, Switzerland,the Due dOrleans and family, Michelet, and other people of notewere stopping at the hotel when father, mother, James, Olivia, andDora were there. Uncle Daniel James and his sons Frank andArthur, and William Dodge and his wife, also visited there, as ap-pears from the following letter from my sister Olivia to our sister Elizabeth: Glion, Friday afternoon, August 14, seems hardly possible, dear sister, that a week has passed since I last wrote home,but it has been a week of excitement when compared with the two preceding ones. Iwill just give you a sketch of the days as they have passed, and then you can better under-stand what I call an exciting week in this quiet place. To begin with Saturday at dinner a card was brought
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