Recherche dans la collection - Letter to Peggy Nelson Dixon with scenes from Bonsecours Market and the Champ de Mars

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in pen and black ink, recto l.c.: Toujours / Paul; u.r.: July the / twenty-first; u.c.: Chère Peggy; in pen and green ink, recto c.: Friday / / / Habitant woman / in blue raincoat / leaning against / her cart/; b.: sketched on the Champ de Mars; in pen and green ink, verso c.l.: The hoof of / the horse / that scorned / me:/ / perhaps he / would have / kicked me- / -"foolish notion"/; l.l.: This charcoal / paper is very / hard to write / upon>- though / it is so fine / for drawing-; c.: A habitant girl / sitting on a cart / under one of those / huge umbrellas, / surreptitiously / powdering her / little nose;-; l.c.: she saw me / making this / sketch, and hid / the puff and / looking glass; / her rosy cheeks / put the powder / to shame! / I was sorry./; (Partial Transcription)