GHL Journal, Florence, 20-26 March 1869
Title
GHL Journal, Florence, 20-26 March 1869
Title
GHL Journal, Florence, 20-26 March 1869
Sender
Ghl Journal
Recipient
U
Date(s)
- 1869-03-20–<br /> 1869-03-26
Place
Florence
Letter Content
GHL Journal, Florence, 20-26 March 1869
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
Saturday 20
March. Rain again and torrents! After seeming to hold out no hope of a clearance, it became sufficiently trifling for us to go out and have a look at the Cathedral, Baptistry and Tower, which seemed even more lovely than memory had pictured. This hour of mitigated weather was the only one during the day; all the way to Florence the rain and wind were violent and incessant. Tom Trollope was at the station waiting for us. His villa a nobleman's mansion both in grandeur and costliness.
We stayed from Saturday till Thursday evening with the Trollopes, having enjoyed but little of the old sights, because Polly's sore throat and headache kept her almost a prisoner. Nothing could be kinder than our hosts. I went with them to a party at Miss Blagden's [22 March] -- and Polly was strong enough to accompany us to a s'e9ance at the Laboratory when Schiff 39 exhibited the instrument for measuring the rapidity of thought [23 March]. Mrs. Schiff agreeable. Left by train on Thursday at 'bd 9 and reached Naples on Friday at 7 p.m. Hotel de Geneve. Tea and bed.
MS: Yale. Hitherto unpublished.
Saturday 20
March. Rain again and torrents! After seeming to hold out no hope of a clearance, it became sufficiently trifling for us to go out and have a look at the Cathedral, Baptistry and Tower, which seemed even more lovely than memory had pictured. This hour of mitigated weather was the only one during the day; all the way to Florence the rain and wind were violent and incessant. Tom Trollope was at the station waiting for us. His villa a nobleman's mansion both in grandeur and costliness.
We stayed from Saturday till Thursday evening with the Trollopes, having enjoyed but little of the old sights, because Polly's sore throat and headache kept her almost a prisoner. Nothing could be kinder than our hosts. I went with them to a party at Miss Blagden's [22 March] -- and Polly was strong enough to accompany us to a s'e9ance at the Laboratory when Schiff 39 exhibited the instrument for measuring the rapidity of thought [23 March]. Mrs. Schiff agreeable. Left by train on Thursday at 'bd 9 and reached Naples on Friday at 7 p.m. Hotel de Geneve. Tea and bed.
Citation
Ghl Journal, GHL Journal, Florence, 20-26 March 1869, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/94300