Millet to Stoddard: April 24, 1877

[Letter 20: Letters of Frank Millet to Charles Warren Stoddard: May 10, 1875 - January 3, 1900

No 8 Rue de l’Orient Montmartre Paris April 24/77

My dear chummeke: --

I haven’t written for some time because I have been moving. And indeed I have be so everlastingly mixed up that I am not sure whether I have described to you my celebrated hotel – you know that everybody who owns a whole house or occupies one calls it a hotel. Well it is in the top of Montmartre near the old windmills which you have probably seen. We have a fine little garden, two rooms on the ground floor where I have my carpenter’s shop and on the first floor a kitchen, salon and dining room. The second story has three chambers where sleep Mrs. Merrill, the two girls and Withaim. (?) [Note: one of the girls may be Lily?] The third story has a fine studio and the nicest little box of a chamber adjoining [page 2 – first line missing] .

My bed is very narrow but you can manage to occupy it I hope. If not we can fix things in the studio when I shall have a divan when I get time to make it. I have made all the furniture for the Salon and there is the greatest gauming place there you ever saw – a great Turkish divan extends around the end of the room under the window and lots of cushions etc. make it comfortable enough. I have my own particular corner where I sit and smoke and over it is a shelf with pipes etc. Come and sit there.

By the way the greatest charm of the house is a splendid terrace on top when you can overlook all Paris like from the Arc de Triomphe. I am about to pose my models there and paint them in full sunlight.

Donny Adams writes me that she is going to America and will pass through Paris. I have invited her to stop here and I hope she will. I saw Bloomer the other day, he said he was writing you. I like the boy very rest of phrase missing?