I have added a new post to the Copy Book, Rest Cure.
In 1864, Charles Dickens wrote to his Swiss friend M de Cerjat, whom he had met in Lausanne. Dickens told him about his newly-remodelled drawing room, with which he was very pleased, and invited him to England to see it. An association of ideas then led him to talk about France. Here was another way in which he had been able to enhance his working life.