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The tribune, not the Medicis, made also by Donatello - And also saw the Nouvelle Sacristie, where the tombs of Julian and One Alessandro are. Julian between Michael Angelo's [[Michelangelo's]] Day And Night, and the other between Crepuscule and Dawn - You know the figures laying each side of the span of an arch - but none of them are equal to David and much of them are unfinished, as Messer M.A. went off to Rome in a huff and gave them up—  The big Palazzo Riccardi is near by, where the Medicis lived and some of them were born.  Most of the tower part is made of huge boulders that jut out and give an appearance and quite correctly of great strength—  We were escorted about the showable parts by a little custodian that spoke Italian so distinctly, and was so determined we should understand him, that we did, 

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I did not want to give you another dose of art, like the last—  Am sorry you are coughing - hope you are not by this time - Your loving Leilie
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most of it—    Most of the places are so changed and arranged inside that one cant really imagine the great personages walking about there—  And when you look at their tombs their bodies are always some where else—

You cant imagine anything kinder than the Coombes have been while I had a cold - they lent me all their wraps, and rolled me up in their theirselves, and I have been wearing Miss Coombes felt, wooly-lined boots for three days, and had her wrapper to go to bed in—    Mrs Coombes is a French woman of Huguenot-descent, and Mr Coombes is a little gentle Vicar of Wakefield, at peace with all the world—  Miss Coombes is a sweet little thing who shows a concordance as "such a nice present" she had last summer - and she practices her little songs, and knits, and goes to the library with Papa