Therefore will you write to the care of Miss Browning, New Cross, Hatcham, near London?
for so I shall not lose your letter.

I have been between heaven and earth since our arrival at Venice.

The heaven of it is ineffable.

Never had I touched the skirts of so celestial a place.

The beauty of the architecture, the silver trails of water up between all that gorgeous colour and carving, the enchanting silence, the moonlight, the music, the gondolas--I mix it all up together, and maintain that nothing is like it, nothing equal to it, not a second Venice in the world.