Friday morning,

Verona July 24

My Dear Constance

The amphitheatre here will not disappoint you, it is very large and noble, and the interior is nearly perfect, and would hold a great many thousand spectators.

There is a grand mediæval bridge of the time of the Scaligers, crossing the broad and rapid river Adige and leading into the Castel Vecchio – I saw the house of Romeo & Juliet or of one of them, – it looks very old, and I daresay it was their house, as the inscription on it certifies. When you leave Venice I think you had better make the 1^st days journey to Padua. It is only 1 hour, & the city is worth stopping to see. The next days journey to Vicenza, also 1 hour, that city is large and pleasant looking. If you go to Recoaro, send Boyer previously to engage apartments, and to study the road, whether it is very jolty or <hot?> &c. If there are no saloons, as I hear, Boyer must engage an extra bedroom, & turn it into a saloon All that will require his personal presence, & moreover the land lords are not to be trusted, in describing their own rooms, & you would find inferior accommodation provided –

Adieu – Your aff^te

Henry

N. B. There are plenty of figs at Verona. What prevents their being brought to Venice?