I am going to Europe in April, in the great steamer _City of Rome_,
and mamma says I may have HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE sent over to me. It
would be too much for me to give it up, as my brother Tom and I
read it, and it gives us so much pleasure. I have been to Europe
before. We staid two years, but now I am ten, and I will enjoy it
much more. Tom is eight years old, and we are reading _Young Folks
Abroad_, so we can know about London and Paris and the other
cities. We have read Abbott's Histories, and the death of Charles
I. and Marie Antoinette almost made me cry. Would you like me to
write you what I see when I am across the great "ditch"? We expect
to be in Germany this summer, and in the winter in Nice, but I
don't want to leave you behind.