This is the gist of the entry for Feb. 24 of Henderson Lanham, whose 1926 diary I bought from an eBay dealer. A lawyer, he ran Lanham & Sons department store on Rome’s Broad Street with his father and brother, and later served in Congress. You can read entries back to Jan. 1 at my blog, bootleggers.substack.com.
It was a cloudy and cool day in Rome, but …
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