Alexander Henry Haliday

Name: Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863
Author: Alexander Henry Haliday

Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

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“Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863”, is a work by Alexander Henry Haliday. It explores elements such as Lucca, Dohrn and Stainton.

Quotes from Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863 (Alexander Henry Haliday)

Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ Returning to Pisa before 9 next morning I found the river subsided below the line of the head walls which were crowded with sand-bags to strengthen defences — the bridge above parapets too strewed with waifs — the Lugarno still a chain of lakes with temporary wooden bridges on trestles for foot passengers. At Florence and along the middle course of Arno it is worse the Pontedera line of railway is underwater — one bridge of communication swept away and all traffic throw on Lucca line. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ My cousin and I move into Lucca Cassa Massoni for the four opening months of the year 1863. As soon as two individuals at present confined to these rooms are well enough to face the air and change of apartment. The continued hard frosts had for a good while with a clear sunshine has yielded to thaw mist and showers of Italian profusion. When the horizon clears I suppose the distant mountains will show that they have had their share of water in the form of fresh layers of snow. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ I am sorry to see so many of the German entomologists are affected by this pugnacious spirit of the age — but this you know all about doubtless from Dohrn and Schaum . I got weary of getting only half of my English newspapers by post and waiting and paying for duplicates of the lost and missing — so stopped my subscription when I started for the Alps and since that my news has been nearly confirmed to a very rare peep into a newsroom at Lucca where no English paper is taken in — As to reports of rumours, here above all, I cannot believe a word I hear in Lucca. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ The winter is now well set in here but when I get over to Pisa I find only the outskirts of frost extending to the neighbourhood, the Lungarno bright and warm, and our friends at Livorno say the name of frost sounds strange to them. My brother has been laid up at Brighton and will have so much to occupy him in London before he can get under way, that I am obliged to give up the expectation of having him for a little shooting here, before moving into town. So we move after Xmas into Casa Massoni in Lucca. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ I intend going for a few days to Florence as soon as I hear what days my friends name as convenient and there I shall get more intelligence than her where it is difficult to obtain any intelligence and that usually untrustworthy. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ However I do not expect to be much in Lucca myself as I shall have attractions to Florence, when he does come; and then Naples and Rome succeed. Insect collecting is pretty well over for the present and instead I was on my perch [post] for an hour this morning with both barrels ready for hares, but it was so dry the scent did not lie, and the whole line of sportsmen in that time had not one shot among them. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ If you take the western route by Piedmont rather than that by [Trieste] , Lucca will not be out of your way to Florence to which there are two routes from Pisa and differing not much in length. I had intelligence, yesterday, which had it arrived a little sooner night have decided us on Florence for the four next months — but now we are settled in Lucca — i.e. as a centre, for I do not expect top be much there at least after January. We have had a fine bright Xmas day though with hard frost. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ His gardening passion may do no harm in diverting him from too close sitting at study — Only he takes it up so warmly that I think of his Snowdon experience and dread rheum which is so unkind to gardeners in our damp English climate — not so damp as this however — judging by the state of insect collection and metal fittings since I have been here. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ When you are writing to him assure him from me of the pleasure that the prospect of soon meeting him, at last — and on this side the Alps suggests. He was quite right in not encouraging me in regard to friend A. Forster. ”

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Alexander Henry Haliday, Letters from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 18 October 1862-21 January 1863

“ Letter from A.H. Haliday to H.T. Stainton 6 Jan 1863 Casa Massoni Via del Pescata Lucca. My Dear Stainton, Your letter of 13th July 10-Jany has just come to hand. I can assure you that the details mentd past 7 were very interesting as I consider the prospect of the Society for which no man living has laboured as much as you have done do very much depend on your continued co-operation being regained for them. ”

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