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OF 1867 108 TOMB OF VINICIANO, BETWEEN FRASCATI AND TUSCULUM 112 GROUNDS OF THE VILLA DORIA-PAMPHILI, ROME 116 _From an unpublished photograph taken about 1869._ POPE PIUS IX. 145 LAST BENEDICTION OF POPE PIUS IX.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 158 ST. PETER'S FROM THE PINCIO 172 THE BARBERINI PALACE 238 _The residence of the Storys_ VICTOR EMANUEL III., KING OF ITALY 244 POPE PIUS X. 250 GREAT NEW BRIDGE FROM ALBANO TO ARICCIA 264 _Built by Pope Pius IX_. ROMAN HUNTSMEN ON THE CAMPAGNA 266 _Ancient Roman aqueduct in the background_ WAITING FOR THE HOUNDS 268 CARDINAL ANTONELLI 288 _From a portrait painted for the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. From a photograph given to Madame Waddington by the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar at Rome._ THE DINING-ROOM IN THE BRANCACCIO PALACE 304 ITALIAN LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE PART I ITALY IN THE EIGHTIES _To G. K. S._[1] 31, RUE DUMONT D'URVILLE, PARIS, January 10, 1880. Well, dear, here I am back again in my little hotel, and very small and uncomfortable it looks--like a doll's house after the enormous rooms of the Quai d'Orsay--however I am very glad to be a _private_ individual once more (no longer a "femme publique" as our friend used to say). Our departure was hurried, as once W.[2] had made up his mind and resigned he wanted to get away at once. We got off in two days, which I thought quite wonderful. Of course ever since the opening of the session in November it was evident that he couldn't stay. He and his Ministers were hardly ever agreed on any point, and it wasn't worth while for him to spend his energy and intelligence in trying to carry out a policy which neither the Chamber nor the country apparently desired. There were endless conferences all through December, but it was clear that it was time for him to go. [1] Mrs. Eugene Schuyler, née King. [2] W. here and throughout these letters refers to M. William Henry Waddington, Madame Waddington's husband.