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I have that impression of Hyde Park house.

Yes, it's tasteless. We went to visit Hyde Park house and we listened to Mrs. Roosevelt's description of the house on one of these boxes with earphones. They're recordings that are electronically controlled in some way. They're used in museums.

I know what you mean. They use them down in “illiamsburg.

Yes, and it was touchin to hear her describe what had happened in the various rooms. The rooms themselves were tasteless and without any sense of charm in living, and the objects--like the Dresden china was 19th century and terribly ornate and very very ugly and out of scale.

I remember it was overwhelming--there was so much of it.

Yes, something that shoul have been thrown away if it had been given to you or put in an attic and yet it was still on display as a treasure. Another thing that was visible were some Lowestoft plates and the indication was that somehow or another they had been brought over by ancestor in the time of the clipper ships, but I can't believe that anything that bad