January 3 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Villa Guicciardina / a Montughi” [NB 47 TS 2]. Note: Sam was already looking about Florence for a more suitable villa and this was likely one consideration. Following these two lines of entry was a list of items about the Villa that go down the page. Here they are listed, separated by commas to save space: “View, Bedrooms, Baths, W.C.’s, Sun-exposures, Exits, Water, Flowers, Stoves, Fireplaces, Dogs, Other noises, Stabling, Pigs rams chickens, Cows—milk” [TS 2-3]. The list continued down the page into the Jan. 4 printed heading.
William Archer wrote from Rome, Italy, where he was vacationing a few days with his son. They were thinking of stopping in Florence on their travels, about the twelfth of the month and would like to call [MTP].