November 6 Sunday – In Florence, Susy Clemens wrote Louise Brownell:

Today is one of our very most radiant Italian Sundays. We are all staying quietly at home because Papa must have the carriage and we can’t get into church without it. I shall try to have a long visit with Grace King whose breadth and enthusiasm and high ideals for life and art are such an inspiration [Cotton 101179]. Note: the King sisters were about to end their visit. It is estimated they left the following day. This letter, postmarked Nov. 13 is given this date since Grace King was in Paris on Nov. 14 [Bush 136n32].

Susy also wrote of Clara’s letters and her own loneliness:

Clara still writes the happiest letters from Berlin and I often do wish I were there with her. She had her next lesson with Mozkowski last week, and he unbent a little, and turned a wee bit less reserved and haughty.

I am not one bit resigned to things this morning, and I am heartily tired of books, and sewing all day, of the echoes in this house, and the long long lonely evenings when we read again by way of a change. Oh dear, oh dear, how hard it is to be lonely! And to keep calculating what to do so as to cheat the sense of desolation which is always waiting for the first chance to take possession of one. It is wrong and childish in me to complain. I usually spare you my Pedestal Friend. Please forgive me today [Cotton 101181-2].