Meanwhile I've read through six volumes of Swinburne. I did not know before of his Children's Poems. We are off on the 13th, first to Lyons to see Symphorien Champier and Rabelais. We'll stop at Vienne to call on Servetus and Appolos Revoire, doubtless the father of the late Paul Revere.
He subsequently went down into Italy, and some of the readers of a journal of medical history may like to trail him by a letter and by some picture postcards, on a quarter of which he could squeeze much in his fine writing.
Cannes. A great coast. Such sunshine. We have been here 1½ weeks — delighted with everything. This is a gorgeous spot. Where I put the + is the little town of Gourdron. They had to get high up on account of the Moors. I am thinking of settling at Monte-Carlo — they say there is a good opening. I lost $.25 in five minutes and then stopped. We go to Rome on the 7th. So far as women are concerned this is the Remnant Counter of Europe. . . .
.Milan. I forgot whether I wrote about the Vesal Tabulæ sex at the San Marco — I think I did. Splendid as illustrating the evolution of his knowledge — also of Calcar as they are very crude in comparison with the 1542. Nothing much in Pavia — nothing in comparison with Bologna and Padua. Library good — no Vesal items of moment, not even the 1543. A 1st ed. of Mundinus, but no plates. I have not been able to locate a single Mundinus MS. — I wonder where they can be. The Ambrosiana here is a fine collection. I had 5 original MSS. of Cardan to look over - the auto-biography is complete he wrote a wonderful hand— no wonder the printers liked to get his copy. Hopli here has no large stock — tho' the best publisher in Italy. Love to the bairns. . . .
