Leland Stanford, Jr. Papers

Naples Feb 11 1884

Dear Miss Hull

I have seen lots of things since I wrote to you last. We went to Nice after leaving Paris and had a very enjoyable time as the American Fleet was at Villefranche and they gave dances every Thursday. From Nice we determined to go to Constantinople. We stayed at Venice five days and had

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When we arrived at Constantinople we all thought we were in the strangest country we had every been in before. No two turks seem to be dressed alike because their clothes are of so many different colors. We became acquainted with Pangiris Bey, one of the Sultan's ade-de-campo and he took us to the Treasury where we saw diamonds literally by the bushel and one emerald as large as your hand, bowls full of emeralds,