BIB_ID
157554
Accession number
MA 4167.1
Creator
Eastwick, William Joseph, 1808-1889.
Display Date
London, England, 1872 June 1.
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.4 x 8.9 cm
Notes
On stationery with blue engraved letterhead: "12 Leinster Terrace, / Hyde Park. W."
Acquired with a second letter from Eastwick to Lady Rawlinson, cataloged separately as MA 4167.2.
Acquired with a second letter from Eastwick to Lady Rawlinson, cataloged separately as MA 4167.2.
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Sending her an autograph from his friend Louis Blanc and describing him: "With true nobility of mind and manly energy, he has the tenderness & sweetness of a woman;" sending her also his French Journal and saying that it was originally written as a private journal but he thought it might amuse his nieces and nephews in India and Australia, so he had a few copies printed; discussing his impressions of France: "Many Englishmen who like myself travelled in France at that period just previous to the breaking out of the war, must have remarked the signs of the coming storm, though I recollect when I mentioned my impressions to some of my friends at home, they expressed great faith in the Emperor's [star?];" adding that Blanc read over the journal and corrected his French.
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