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last eve the red light
from the peak we see
strong contrast as the moon of silver
rose and cast its rays on
the sea over the house tops
and palaces and the streets
and houses below us on our
Hotel well worth all
this anxiety and fatigue
I have had about coming
here- I went out yesterday
of turn Leland [ ?]
[ ?] so I to the Museum
and spent two of the most
interesting hours I have known
since I came on this side.
Oh if you can only come
to Rome and here I would
not feel badly about the
other places left out You
must see this old world -
you cannot conceive any-
thing like it on earth -This
city is beautiful to me -

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are not sure of getting away early
I feel so disappointed I am
discouraged about your coming
from the fact that Jennie
Flood writes in a letter dated
the same day as yours that
Mr. [Crocker?] is going East with
his family this spring - You
do not say anything about Ariel
going to you-Kate wrote me
this news all ready and shes
glad for Ariel [like ?] only
waiting your dispatch to [ ?]
I hope you will leave him
to look after some of your
[intents ?]I have a Lector in
view a teacher in the Anglo
American College at Nice
He speaks French well and
teaches English to the boys he
came to see me twice but
I hoped to be better decided
but did not succeede[sic], I take
him only on trial - Leland
speaks German & French quite
well - uses it [although, all together ?] with
George who is the best servant and

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I ever had around me not a fault to find
in him with love ever from your wife

Jane L. Stanford