Viewing page 7 of 31

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

moment you are amid the orange groves of Sorento - in a balmy southern air - that beautiful Sorento that always seemed to me more dreamlike than any other place but Venice. Oh I am so pining for warm weather - it was lovely in February and we thought the spring had come - but for more than a month now we have been put through every possible horror in the way of cold ever since and inclemency of all sorts. Kate Willard has fled from it to Washington where I doubt not she is having a butterfly existence for a few weeks. Mary is absorbed in her new joys of motherhood and thinks of nothing else. Of Hallie's many cares musical domestic & pecuniary keep her very busy. They have but two boarders there just at present. Mr Low (whom the zany ladies called Cupid) and a southerner who has been there all winter are very pleasant young men whom Hallie & her mother both enjoy and have quite made one of the family. I often wonder your mother should not have been anxious so because he was there for Millie-it would have been so much more homelike than a big boardinghouse- and Hallie