Richard Zacks in his book CHASING THE LAST LAUGH references this letter as
dated Jan. 17-24, 1896 from MTP. This letter is UCCL # 05012. Records
indicate a transcript of it is at Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Barb

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have just received a query about a statement purportedly made by Livy
> regarding Colombo:  "the most fascinating, picturesque place that I have
> ever seen".    I have a reference from Day By Day to a letter from Livy to
> Susan Crane on January 17, 1896.  I don't have access to letters from this
> late a date and it would be nice to verify this.  My query was from
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