But she is gestating, and gestation with her is always perturbing.

I wish the book were done with all my heart.
"I don't think I ever told you how very much your _History of Florence_ interested me.

I am shockingly ignorant of the subject, and not at all competent to speak, except as one of the public; but you made the political life of the people clear to me.

I only regretted here and there a newspaper style which was not historic.

Oscar Browning has sent me his review, but I have not read it yet.