Letter relating to Blaess' journey to Paris by boat and train and her first day in Paris. Includes description of the boat journey including her sea sickness, and descriptions of the views on the train to Paris. She mentions the censorship in the train stations - city names have been blacked out. She describes dining with a Madame Troussard upon her arrival as her aunt was not in. She describes meeting her academic supervisor [Professor Cohen] for the first time, who assumes she is American and a suffragette. Madeleine says she doesn't feel like it's wartime where she is as the censorship is not that bad compared to England, and that she rarely sees soldiers. She then proceeds to ask lots of questions to her parents about their lives, about people she knows, what they are doing etc. Her aunts writes (in blue ink) a few words and expresses how happy she is that her 'second daughter' (i.e. Madeleine) is here.