The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . ong time ; that, thus deprived of the means of reading,such little information as I ever had should have effectually madeits escape from a noddle that never had the capacity of fixingitself on any one thing at a time, is deplorable, but not to bewondered at ; let us hope for a better day. Nor is spending thehot months of the summer here in Rome so dreadful a thing asit appears to your tender anxiety ; with proper precautions anda regular life I shall no doubt go through it as well as so manyof my friends that have tried the experiment ; the mor
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . ong time ; that, thus deprived of the means of reading,such little information as I ever had should have effectually madeits escape from a noddle that never had the capacity of fixingitself on any one thing at a time, is deplorable, but not to bewondered at ; let us hope for a better day. Nor is spending thehot months of the summer here in Rome so dreadful a thing asit appears to your tender anxiety ; with proper precautions anda regular life I shall no doubt go through it as well as so manyof my friends that have tried the experiment ; the more so thatthe worst part of the summer is in September and early October,at which period I shall be enjoying the particularly cool andhealthy air of Bagni di Lucca. How could you be surprised,dear Mamma, at my having begun the pictures ? did I not tellyou the size of them ? do you not know the quantity of figuresin the composition ? do you not know that it will be considereda piece of extraordinary rapidity if I finished them in time for ,<=^^. ft; K !~- :. ,~. j-^ V- SC L. ^.-i .~^ CO .?•^ u ;5J ^ ^ o Q <; 1^ 00 a 4k o M D (J CQ ^^ < o S ^ 1—1 CO U 3O »? K fti a o o -4-» (Xh j3 .^ iz: ••H ohJ o t-H w M Q M H u hj Oh 1^ O U CO »r) fe 00 O c »*^ X c u ^ H r* w i-i <J Z l-H o l-H Di: o ROME 149 the Exhibitions, by the beginning of next February ? You per-ceive the necessity of my staying here, willy nilly. The Sartorisseem to you too prominent a motive in my desire to stay ; alas !and again alas ! they are off to Lucca in a few days, and I shallbe left alone. Judge whether I am eager to get off, and whetheranything but necessity of the most urgent kind will keep mehere, for I am warmly attached to both, and her I dearly quite at ease about the amount of advice I can get here, Ido not lack that if I want it ; but as it is, the compositions wereso completely sifted by Steinle before I left Frankfurt, that Ihave nothing left but the material execu
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