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Venice Aug 28th 1882 Dear ones at home In a few hours I leave Venice after having spent the pleasantest period of my whole trip. Venice is the loveliest spot I have seen. All her beautiful pallaces [[palaces]] and churches her canals and gondolas are fully in keeping with the idea one forms from the poetry and art this historic place has given birth to. When I came to Europe I did not intend to do a stroke of work but while here I went to a little island about twenty five miles out in the Adriatic and was so