Livy wrote from Venice to her mother about the city:

“It is so fascinating,  so thoroughly charming—I sit now before a window that opens on to a little  piazza; where I can look right on to the Grand Canal…We have the morning sun in  our rooms and the weather for three days has been perfect” [MTNJ 2:  157].

The pace of  acquisition increased considerably here with purchases of furniture, dishes,  glass, and brassware for the Clemens home. In addition to visits with Livy to  well-known commercial establishments like Besarel and Salviati,  Sam frequented old shops, rummaging through ‘many small rooms crowded with images, armor, pots, lanterns, &c,” motley storehouses which seemed the  hallmark of Venice [MTNJ  2: 157].

Livy wrote to  her mother, with Clara Clemens adding about riding in a “Gondoler”:

…Mr. [Gedney] Bunce, a cousin of  Mr. Ned Bunce, an artist called and he staid until after eleven…

I love Grandmamma very  much and I like to see her— Clara Langdon Lews O’Day Bocketer Placklick Lewis  Bay Clemens—that is really my name [Salsbury 85].

Gustavo  Sarfatti wrote to Sam (enclosed in Sarfatti Oct.  30). “I duly received yr. Esteemed letter of the 18   inst. Mr. [illegible word] case being ready I forwarded it to [illegible  word] by the S.S. Cemerana (?)” 2 copies of a shipping receipt dated 22 Oct  1878 enclosed for 5 cases of furniture [MTP].