BIB_ID
295679
Accession number
MA 892.10
Creator
Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920.
Display Date
[1879?].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 20.2 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).
The envelope (postmarked Dec. 10, 1877) may belong to a different letter. This letter seems to have been written after her son's death in 1879.
Written on mourning stationery, with crossed writing on p. 5.
The envelope (postmarked Dec. 10, 1877) may belong to a different letter. This letter seems to have been written after her son's death in 1879.
Written on mourning stationery, with crossed writing on p. 5.
Summary
Thanking him for his good thoughts yet saying that little can be done to change her heart now that she has lost all she loved on earth; saying that she will carry on with her plan to go to Africa; grieving deeply.
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