Correspondence Type
AL / Autograph Letter
Date
1-26-1889
Date Note
January 26, 1889
Location (Sent From)
on board the S.S. Iberia
Location (Sent To)
Florence, Italy
Description
Will stay in Rome and Naples only for a short timeas she is anxious to get back to Florence; her health again is bad, "I have been unwellish a long time….this illness has been a great lesson to me not to strain after the impossible, but to do what lies at hand"; wants her friends to know that she is "quite unfit to resume ordinary life."
Rights
Letter Number
443
Sheet Count
2
Page Count
8
Recommended Citation
Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget) and Paget, Matilda, "Violet Paget (on board the S.S. Iberia) to Matilda Paget (Florence, Italy)" (1889). Vernon Lee: Letters Home. 404.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/letters_home/404