June 14 Wednesday – At the Villa Viviani, Florence, Sam and Livy wrote to Miss A. Hall, who had seen Susy off at the station the night before. Sam wrote:

Dear Miss Hall: Mrs Clemens was not well, yet was determined to go, but I persuaded her (with an axe), to stop over a day. She is all right, now, (is getting so, rather), & so we shall make the attempt to get as far as Bologna. She was very glad to get your kind note, with its final news about Susy….Mrs. Clemens wants to write you, & has been insisting, but I have not listened to her, for she is better lying still & she does not spell very well anyway.

Livy wrote:

I must say good bye and my thanks to you myself even if I can’t spell. …Our tickets are bought and our trunks have gone to Munich so we could have undivided minds for a little chat with you.

The other articles for the orphanage go down tomorrow I will send a list of them to Mme Leforestier, so she may know what she should recieve [sic] from the Contadino [MTP].