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A.T. Lyman Esq

Florence Feb. 4th 1857.

My dear Arthur

I received your letter. We spent last summer at Leghorn, and coming back we went to the baths of Lucca where we stayed three or four days, but it was so cold there that we hurried back to Florence. My poor little canary died there. At Leghorn we had a very nice villa, and I had a garden where I planted beans, peas, squashes and musk melons. The little Tappans are living here. They are very nice little girls, and I go there three times a week for a painting lesson and three