Tell us, if you can and will, what you hear.
We came here from Florence five or six weeks since, when I was very unfit for moving, but change of air and a cooler air and repose had grown necessary.

We are at a villa two miles from Siena, where we look at scarlet sunsets, over purple hills, and have the wind nearly all day.
Mr.and Mrs.Story are half a mile off in another villa, and Mr.Landor at a stone's cast.

Otherwise the solitude is absolute.

Mr.Russell spent two days with us on his way to resume office at Rome.

I should remember that....
* * * * * _To Mr.Chorley_ Siena: Sunday [September-October 1859].
Thank you, my dear Mr.Chorley, I submit gratefully to being snubbed for my politics.