The town now known as Crotone, Italy, was known as Cotrone until 1928.
Address panel with postage and postmarks to "A.H. Bullen Esq / 16 Henrietta St / Covent Garden / London W.C. / Inghilterra."
Describing his visit to Cotrone; saying "I think you will be glad to receive a card from Cotrone. Not a stone of the old city remains, but the present town occupies the site of the Acropolis. Running into the sea, to the south, is the long Lacinian Promontory, at the end of which stands one last column of the great Temple of Hera - a column which was seen by Pythagoras. In the last century, blackguards built a sea-wall here out of the ruins of the Temple; & 300 years ago an ecclesiastical ruffian demolished the glorious structure itself to make his disgusting Palazzo;" saying he was delighted to get his letter in Naples and relating his itinerary when he leaves Cotrone; adding "The hotels are tolerable - if you are prepared for them. My worst experience was at Cosenza - an awful hole! elsewhere nothing worse than foul odours. By-the-bye, are we to suppose that the old Greeks & Romans lived with the stench of ordure perpetually in their nostrils? Not impossible, I fear. That is the present state of things here - & it affects one's appetite. I am well, & in good spirits. Hope you & [H.W.] Lawrence are the same."