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 > [log in to unmask] >