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1881
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Naples March 16th
My dear Leland
While waiting for
lunch to be served and
waiting for George and Leland
to return from the bank
with money for me I will
ocupy [sic] the time writing a
few lines. We left Rome
day before yesterday (Tuesday)
on Monday previous we had
much to enjoy. Hooker & Co.
Bankers had invited us to a
balcony in a friends house
to see the King review the
troops being his birth day
But before it was time I
have at 1/2 past 9 - he also
recived [sic] a note from Bishop
[Faughese ?] saying at 12 we
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in beautiful costume of yellow
and blk guarding the stairs
after waiting awhile in an
ante room where we left our
wraps we were ushered by [cadets ?]
dressed in crimson satin
and velvet into an inner
room where we found about
two hundred seated all dressed
in the black costumes blk [ ?}
the gents in full dress white
cravats- many looked like
noblemen and ladies
we had to wait nearly an hour
but the room was so beautiful
marble mosaics and frescoes
and the people themselves
all interested me so much
the time did not seem long
at last a Chamberlain came
and took all the [sinatures] from
each and some after the
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