. Eight journeys abroad. aseys are staying— think we were very smart to get in here. I have not got Countess Adelmanns letter—had plannedto go by Munich via Botzen and Innsbruck from Venice, butshall wait to get your letters at Florence or Venice in answerto my question before. I must post this to-night. My best love to all of you andhoping you are all well and will write often. Affly., M. D. R. 550 ITALY Palace Hotel, Rome, April 3rd, Frank, Your 8th and 9th letters came yesterday and we found themon our return from a hard days sightseeing. We spent themorning a
. Eight journeys abroad. aseys are staying— think we were very smart to get in here. I have not got Countess Adelmanns letter—had plannedto go by Munich via Botzen and Innsbruck from Venice, butshall wait to get your letters at Florence or Venice in answerto my question before. I must post this to-night. My best love to all of you andhoping you are all well and will write often. Affly., M. D. R. 550 ITALY Palace Hotel, Rome, April 3rd, Frank, Your 8th and 9th letters came yesterday and we found themon our return from a hard days sightseeing. We spent themorning at St. Peters going around it carefully from end toend and into the Sacristy, where we saw wonderful embroid-eries and all the silver gilt candlesticks, &c., wrought byBenvenuto Cellini and used only on high holidays, also thefragments of Malazzo di Fiorlis frescoes from the ancientbasilica underneath. In the afternoon we started out again and went to theColiseum, roaming through the great arches at the back where. THE .Ai-Pi-AN WAY, RU-ME one gets a more adequate idea of its size than from the centre,then to the Baths of Titus and the golden house of Nero, theformer on top of the latter, and then to San Clements which isconsidered to give one the best idea of the early Christianchurch. I thought it just like a Jewish synagogue, with amarble fence around a middle place with beautiful piercedplaces (screens) in marble and lots of old mosaic. The read-ing desks were of plain marble supported by columns and asJewish as possible. 551 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD We then bought a few more photographs and I got yousome gloves and then we came home. To-day we made theexcursion called a day with St. Paul, which means you goout on the Appian way, &c., with a Prof, who lectures, Alandau came for us at ten and we have just got home at began with the English cemetery, which is very muchchanged since I saw it before, the ilexes have grown tremen-dously and there are some beautiful monum
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