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Eve Drewelowe travel correspondence, 1928-1929

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and interest to the male, I suppose rather than detract as it is supposed to do. Others who show their face, wear lovely graceful costumes - they are draped around the waist across the front from left to right shoulder and then over the head. The men wear ugly turbans and a swathing about the thighs called "sarees". We took several carriage drives. The coachman and guide sat high up in front; Van and I together with the servant sat low in the middle the two seats facing each other; and a page stood on behind. This all sounds very romantic put if you could only see us in actual life. The driver wore a dirty turban wadded about his head, and trailing along in the breeze; the guide, and old decrepit man, a little round hat and his shirt-tail hanging below his coat; our boy an 1800 model coat with a ruffle of shirttail protruding all the way around. Its all very funny and reminded me of the cinderella story and the pumkin and mouse carriage which was turned into a carriage of state for the princess. When we get home the princess (I) will return to her cinderella state, and the be-servanted carriage will turn back into a pumpkin and mouse affair. The general condition of the people of India in extreme poverty. They live in inbelievable filthy an tiny holes in the walls and their clothes are very often in tatters. Most of northern India seems dry and parched and desolate - even the land seems tired and worn out. We are feeling better here than we did in the tropics - but soon we shall be again where it is so hot and humid. This climate is much as it is at home early October - dry and the sun warm and bright. We must still be careful of the sun

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and interest to the male, I suppose rather than detract as it is supposed to do. Others who show their face, wear lovely graceful costumes - they are draped around the waist across the front from left to right shoulder and then over the head. The men wear ugly turbans and a swathing about the thighs called "sarees". We took several carriage drives. The coachman and guide sat high up in front; Van and I together with the servant sat low in the middle the two seats facing each other; and a page stood on behind. This all sounds very romantic put if you could only see us in actual life. The driver wore a dirty turban wadded about his head, and trailing along in the breeze; the guide, and old decrepit man, a little round hat and his shirt-tail hanging below his coat; our boy an 1800 model coat with a ruffle of shirttail protruding all the way around. Its all very funny and reminded me of the cinderella story and the pumkin and mouse carriage which was turned into a carriage of state for the princess. When we get home the princess (I) will return to her cinderella state, and the be-servanted carriage will turn back into a pumpkin and mouse affair. The general condition of the people of India in extreme poverty. They live in inbelievable filthy an tiny holes in the walls and their clothes are very often in tatters. Most of northern India seems dry and parched and desolate - even the land seems tired and worn out. We are feeling better here than we did in the tropics - but soon we shall be again where it is so hot and humid. This climate is much as it is at home early October - dry and the sun warm and bright. We must still be careful of the sun