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St Petersburg
Hôtel de France
26 April 95
{in pencil below: "14 April 1895?"}

My dear friend,
We have arrived here three
days ago, and have been shaken
by an earthquake, the night
before we left Arco; the house
shook strongly but no damage
happened. Since I left Arco,
I so {sic: "saw"?} no good weather any more.
In Vienna it was cold, and on
crossing the frontier, we saw
the snow lying on the fields.
Here, I found the ice hardly
moving on the canals, and a
sky as grey as mud. But today,