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Correspondence to Mary Jay Snowden Cairns from her daughter, Elizabeth Walker Cairns, 1905 July 6. Elizabeth was writing from Florence, Italy. She details her activities including attending the opera and hearing "La Traviata," seeing St. Peter's Cathedral, taking drives in the Gianicolo gardens, describing the churches and cathedrals they have toured, and listing the artwork and sculptures she has viewed.
She states that "This is the hottest spell they have had in Rome for 74 years. The heat is so dry, however, that I don't feel it half as much as I do in New York... Don't worry about the heat, for if it turns warm again we will hurry out to Switzerland...You had better send my letters to Uncle B. to read but be sure to tell him to return them."
Mary Jay Snowden Cairns is the sister of Robert Bogardus Snowden.
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sc.0065.002_006.002
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1905 July 6
Keywords
Cairns, Mary J., 1846-1930., Correspondence.
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"Correspondence, to Mary Snowden Cairns from Elizabeth Cairns, 1905 July 6" (2023). Documents. 28.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-rbsnowdenfamily1/28
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