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abominable but their art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is great and the whole sace [[space?]] lives on it. Strange state of things when a nation can do such wonderful things and then lose their faculty entirely and do worse than nothing as the Italians do today. They are the worst swindlers I have found in Europe. They swindle in every possible way. So many foreigners traveling gets them in that wasy.  Too long to write everytning so you will have to wait till I can tell it.

Hoping you are all well I am 
Affectionately
Olin

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