Is the room you occupy airy as well as warm?
Because being confined to a small room, with you who are so used to liberty and out of door life, must be depressing to the vital energies.

Do you read much?
No, no, you ought not to think of the press, of course, till you are strong.

Ah--if you should get to London to see our play, how glad I should be! We, too, talk of London, but somewhat mistily, and not so early in the summer.

Mr.and Mrs.Marsh--he is the American Minister at Constantinople--have been staying in Florence, and passing some evenings with us.

They tempt us with an invitation to Constantinople this summer, which would be irresistible if we had the money for the voyage, perhaps, so perhaps it is as well that we have not.