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Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life, by Mary Alsop King Waddington
Title: Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life
January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904
Author: Mary Alsop King Waddington
Release Date: November 8, 2011 [eBook #37953]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ITALIAN LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S LIFE***
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ITALIAN LETTERS
OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE
7th EDITION
LETTERS OF A
DIPLOMAT'S WIFE
By MARY KING WADDINGTON
"A most interesting book of gossip, which, considered from the point of view of the general public, contains not a dull line from the first to the last. The letters have all the freshness of the best class of feminine correspondence."
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Elena, Queen of Italy.ITALIAN LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE
January-May, 1880
February-April, 1904
BY
MARY KING WADDINGTON
ILLUSTRATED FROM DRAWINGS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
NEW YORK :: :: :: :: :: :: 1905
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published, March, 1905
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
NOTE
In December, 1879, M. William Henry Waddington resigned the Premiership of France, and the following month, accompanied by his wife, left Paris for a winter of rest and recreation in Italy, chiefly in Rome. The letters from Madame Waddington to her mother and sister, which constitute "Part I" of this volume, describe this journey and residence. Those forming "Part II" relate the incidents of a similar Roman sojourn some twenty years later, M. Waddington having died in the meantime. The two series together compose a picture of life and society in the Italian capital with a wide range of contrast and comparison, corresponding with those of London and Moscow in the well-known "Letters of a Diplomat's Wife" by the same writer.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Elena, Queen of Italy | Frontispiece |
| FACING | |
| PAGE | |
| Mrs. Charles King | 12 |
| President Charles King of Columbia College, New York City | 30 |
| The Spanish Steps | 52 |
| In the Piazza di Spagna, Rome. | |
| Pope Leo XIII. | 60 |
| King Humbert of Italy | 66 |
| Queen Margherita of Italy | 76 |
| Queen Margherita and King Humbert | 84 |
| Queen Margherita and the Prince of Naples (Present King of Italy) in 1880 | 94 |
| Victoria, Crown Princess of Germany | 104 |
| Gardens of the Villa Torlonis, Formerly Villa Conti, Frascati, Opposite the Villa Marconi, Where we Spent the Summer of 1867 | 108 |
| Tomb of Viniciano, Between Frascati and Tusculum | 112 |
| Grounds of the Villa Doria-Pamphili, Rome | 116 |
| From an unpublished photograph taken about 1869. | |
| Pope Pius IX. | 145 |
| Last Benediction of Pope Pius IX. from the | |
| Balcony of St. Peter's |