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Plate IV · i · b · The City

Cambridge

One entry, one hour, and the best argument I know for owning less and placing it better.

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A whitewashed collector's house interior at dusk, low furniture and small objects set out with great care
Plate IV · i · b · The house

Nothing here is rare. Everything here is exactly where it ought to be, which is far harder.

A day, properly arranged
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One entry only. The day is short on purpose.

The entries

One entry, visited, and carried home.
Notes for the city

Go in autumn and go in the first hour. The house is small, the rooms are quiet, and the whole effect depends on being able to stand still in front of a shelf without somebody waiting behind you.

Resist the urge to do the colleges on the same morning. Cambridge will offer you six other things and every one of them will dilute this. Come out, walk by the river, and let it settle before you look at anything else.

It is an easy train from London and an entirely reasonable half-day. I have never regretted going up for one house and coming straight home again.

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