A fellow Forum member emailed me privately that a quick check of the NY Sun
online showed reports of a snow storm and I went to the same page (LC's
newspaper search page) and read several issues from Jan 1-5 and founds
reports of a big storm. So, it's surely red roses in Florence in 1904. To
read those papers you must select "view" rather than "thumbnail" after you
get your search results, and then use the "zoom" feature for each page. At
least that's the best I could do.

I mention this for the benefit of those who might be interested in Twain's
reading habits that he was keeping up with news by carefully reading the NY
Sun while at Villa di Quarto.

Kevin Mac Donnell
Austin TX