One of my favorite creative writing courses taught me how to use writing as living – to document the experience of a moment rather than attempting to interpret it. I am always faltering to follow this way of living in the ways I hope, but thought I’ll try an altered format with thoughts and details I gathered at the Wallace Collection.

The Wallace Collection at Hertford House is a free palace-like museum of French, medieval and Renaissance art in thick golden frames hung across velvet wallpaper.

The Front State Room “reveals the opulence of the grand London townhouse in the 1870s” as described by the museum label.

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