Contents

[ XIV. ]FLORENCE AND SPEZZIA 1864
[ XV. ]FLORENCE AND SPEZZIA 1865
[ XVI. ]FLORENCE AND SPEZZIA 1866
[ XVII. ]FLORENCE AND TRIESTE 1867
[ XVIII. ]TRIESTE 1868
[ XIX. ]TRIESTE 1869
[ XX. ]TRIESTE 1870
[ XXI. ]TRIESTE 1871
[ XXII. ]TRIESTE 1872
[ XXIII. ]LOOKING BACKWARDS 1871-1872
[ XXIV. ]THE END

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XIV. FLORENCE AND SPEZZIA 1864

To Mr John Blackwood.

“Casa Capponi, Florence, Jan. 2,1863 [? 1864].

“I am not sure—so much has your criticism on ‘Tony’ weighed with me, and so far have I welded his fortunes by your counsel—that you’ll not have to own it one of these days as your own, and write ‘T. B. by J. B.’ in the title. In sober English, I am greatly obliged for all the interest you take in the story,—an interest which I insist on believing includes me fully as much as the Magazine. For this reason it is that I now send you another instalment, so that if change or suppression be needed, there will be ample time for either.