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Pauline Robinson was a member of a well-to-do American family long resident in Paris, who included Theodore Roosevelt among their friends. The Robinson Family Papers are at the New York Historical Society; among them are Pauline's travel writing of c.1902-3 and a critique of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth (1905). Edith Wharton had herself toured Italy in the winter and early spring of 1903, collecting materials for Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904). Our letter is not included in The Letters of Edith Wharton, edited by R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (1988).