April 26, 2020
These posts are part of a series superimposing the art of Irish-American painter Robert David Gauley with contemporary text from letters my great-great grandmother, Christina Meyer, sent home from a trip throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. Together, they offer a vivid glimpse of travel in the last decade of the 19 th century.
Naples, March 2, 1896
The 3 ½ days we spent in Rome were not enough and I said I would like to stay for a month. Rome is so deeply embedded in my mind that I will never forget it . . . You may tell Miss Pering that I will never forget this scene and . . . what I saw in Rome I can hardly enumerate.
We could not have had finer weather . . . This morning some of the party went to Capri and Sorento where they will remain overnight to visit Vesuvius . . .
