. "In this letter to his parents, painter Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950), illustrates the vast quantities of fruit he is consuming in Venice - *Melons, pears, peaches, plums, apples, figs, grapes, and other things unknown to my interior.* He also mentions the arrival of the ???Bostonians,??? his social events, and the sale of his pictures to Isabella Stewart Gardner, September 8, 1894." . . . . . .