– “Cooks agent gone off junketing—for a few days—can’t get any tickets” [MTNJ 2: 245].
 
In  a letter dated Nov. 10, Livy wrote to her mother:

We  have enjoyed Rome immensely & wish so very much that we were  going to spend three months here.  

Yesterday  morning [Nov 9] we went to Mr. Vedder’s studio, he certainly has immense genius, he had such a large amount  of pictures and such an infinate variety of subjects—we did enjoy the morning  so very much —I felt as if I could spend two thousand dollars there if I had it  to spend.

Livy’s  reaction to Rome contrasted with Sam’s note to Twichell on Nov. 3 that it interested him about  as much as East Hartford. Before  leaving Rome (probably this day) Sam and Livy bought Vedder’s “Head of Medusa” for $250 [245n60]. See insert.