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Italian Hours HJ
Edel 2nd

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Early in 1872 Henry hoped to get to Europe & visit Florence

May 1872 Switzerland . Hotel Byron met the Italianate - Am Bootts. July Grindelwald This time Bootts did not join them
"F not fond of mts - Lizzie liked sociability of urban hotels"

Berne where (James') found the Bootts in an old fashioned hotel amid "a large entourage" of Bostonians

1873. Xmas Eve, called on Bootts & stayed with them for dinner. "Fed him turkey & applesauce"
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Cambridge Greenoughs - "chapter of 'society' here that is Am society opens up before me"
in Rome - writers - storys [[stories]]. Mrs Chas Summer - & Bootts with thr circle of friends Mrs Wister daughter of Fanny Kemble

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"There were no art schools to speak of in the US. No great masters with whom to study nor an atmosphere in wh/ they could create In Rome y'g Am. sculptors found the Italian marble & qualified technicians & stonecutters to handle it - there was alabaster & malachite, lapis & porphyry & the centuries old work in mosaic Th men who used the brush or the chisel had in the Holy City example & precedent. 



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NOTE: The name is "Boott" not "Booth" Plural "Bootts" refers to Lizzie & her father. Fanny Kemble - British author needs to finish transcribing [[?]]