She executed several bas-reliefs of Dante; a bust of Sandalphon; "The Sleeping Child"; "Thekla, or the Tangled Skein"; and several chimneypieces, one of which, "Children and the Yule Log and Fireside Spirits," was shown at the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia (1876).

Florence (also known as Flori) was a good friend of sculptor Harriet Hosmer, as well as many other artists then residing in Italy, including Emma Stebbins, Margaret Foley, John Rollin Tilton, Edmonia Lewis and Anne Whitney.

While she was living in Rome, Florence socialized with W. W. Story's wife Emelyn, and was known to William as a female sculptor in the city.

In 1900, Mira Cressida Peruzzi de'Medici married her first cousin Edward Henry Eldredge (of Boston).

In 1905, Edward's sister Theodora Maria Eldredge married Harris Hooper Lawrence (also of Boston).