March 31 Thursday – At the Villa Reale di Quarto near Florence Sam wrote to Elizabeth Robins.
“The passage quoted by me is from William Morris’s ‘Well at the End of the World.’ It occurs in the second volume, but I do not know just where, for the book is not now on the premises. / With kindest regards” [MTP].
Alice Von Versen (née Clemens) replied to Sam’s Mar. 21, glad to hear from him. Her letters to him evidently had been lost but she noted that if she sent them to his English publisher he nearly always got them. She was sorry to hear about Livy’s illness but was sure “the sunny climate of Italy will help.” Her oldest daughter Hulda was going to be in Florence about the middle of April, and she would visit him. She sent regards to the girls [MTP].