BIB_ID
295657
Accession number
MA 892.3
Creator
Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920.
Display Date
1870 June.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Empress Eugénie to Lucien-Louis-Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte. Letters are described in individual records (MA 892.1-32).
With postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
With Tuileries, a double E, and a crown embossed at the top of the page.
With postmark and seal; date is from postmark.
With Tuileries, a double E, and a crown embossed at the top of the page.
Summary
Apologizing to him for not thanking him sooner for the two letters he sent; explaining that she has been busy since returning from the East; saying that she wishes she could have gone to Rome upon her return to France, but that she decided not to so that her visit to the Pope [Pius IX] would not be misinterpreted; sending him her best wishes for the New Year.
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